FEBRUARY CONTEST DEADLINES Fire and Ice Contest Chicago-North RWA Entry cost: $25/$30 (non-RWA members) E-Entry Deadline: Midnight of February 1, 2012 Prologue/first chapter (25 pages max) http://www.chicagonorthrwa.org/ Willa Award (P) Women Writing the West Entry cost: $50 Entry Deadline is February 1, 2012 Copyright of 2011 http://www.womenwritingthewest.org/pdffiles/WILLA%20Guidelines%20and%20Application.pdf Merritt Contest (EO – U – P/4) San [...]

RWA Chapter Contests The Washington Romance Writers 2012 Marlene Awards close January 15, 2012. Open to unpublished manuscripts. Categories and judges: Series Contemporary – Johanna Raisanen, Harlequin; Single Title – Megan Records, Kensington; Paranormal – Heather Osborn, Samhain Publishing; Historical – Esi Sogah, Avon; Romantic Elements – Latoya Smith, Grand Central; Young Adult – Holly [...]

CONTESTS: The Virginia Romance Writers chapter of Romance Writers of America® is proud to announce our 17th Annual HOLT Medallion Contest for published authors.   Eligible titles are romance novels, or novels with a strong element of romance, with a copyright date within the year preceding the competition (for the 2012 contest, books must have [...]

CLASSES January 2012 – Hook, Line, and Sinker: Fishing for a Publisher With Your Best Opening and Follow-up Presented by Jeannie Eddy Dates: January 5 – 29, 2012 Deadline: January 3, 2012 FMI: http://lowcountryrwa.com/online-workshops/#JAN1 Course Description: Want an editor or agent to want to read your book? You have to write a great hook to [...]

CONTESTS Want More Book Sales? Then enter the Greater Detroit RWA Booksellers’ Best Award. And, yes, they take ebooks. Cost: $27. Deadline:  Jan.15, 2012. FMI: http://gdrwa.org/bba entryform2011.html . If you have additional questions contact pattishenberger 2012 Write Touch Readers’ Award Contest. All published works are eligible to enter the Wisconsin Romance Writers (WisRWA) contest, but must be [...]

  2012 NECRWA Conference Take advantage of early bird pricing and register for the 2012 NECRWA Let Your Imagination Take Flight between now and January 15!!! Held at  the historic Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts on April 27-28. Visit the NECRWA website for more information and registration links….http://necrwa.org/blog1/conference/ Blasting Through the Blah by Donna Alward [...]

Edit Your Book in a Month with Eliza Knight. It begins on Monday and is only $10 for HHRW members! Sign up here today! If you just finished a NaNo manuscript, this is your chance to polish it up for submission! Due to the fact many–if not all–chapters have members who are interested in the [...]

Registration is open and runs through February 7, 2012 for the PASIC Power Conference. Speakers include: Steven Axelrod, Karen Solem, Wendy Corsi Staub, representatives from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, agent and editor panels and appointments: confirmed are Selina McLemore, Grand Central; Deb Werksman, Sourcebooks; Kevan Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency; Alicia Condon, Kensington; Jim [...]

Amy Sue Nathan’s debut novel, THE GLASS WIVES, sold to Brenda Copeland at St. Martin’s Press for publication in Spring 2013 by Jason Yarn of Paradigm. Kimberly Swaak’s manuscript, TRUST ME, is a finalist in Chick Lit Writers of the World 7th Annual Get Your Stiletto in the Door Contest and the Spacecoast Authors of [...]

  Workshops/Classes:   The Washington Romance Writers is hosting Story Mastery with Michael Hague, a two-day event November 5 – 6 at the Bethesda Marriott in Bethesda, MD. Saturday’s events are $130 for RWA members, $75 for WRW members. For more details see: http://www.wrwdc.com/ee/index.php/meetings.   The Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal Chapter of RWA presents Writing [...]