All About Us!

Founded in 2000, the New Hampshire Chapter of the Romance Writers of America is a non-profit organization promoting the reading and writing of romance fiction!

We are a chapter of the Romance Writers of America organization ~ a professional association for 8,500 published and aspiring romance writers. Members of RWA write the novels that make up 48% of all popular paperback fiction and generate more than one billion in sales each year.

Membership in RWA includes a monthly magazine with craft and industry articles, updated market information, an annual conference with the opportunity to meet editors and agents and attend writing workshops given by best-selling authors, and the opportunity to participate in competitions such as the RITA© for published authors and the GOLDEN HEART ©for unpublished writers.

Who We Are!

NHRWA is dedicated to promoting excellence in romance fiction and provide continuing support to our members within the romance publishing community. We currently have 28 members including 9 published authors in the fields of single title romance, category romance and electronic romance publishing!

We meet monthly, September through June and our meetings consist of:

 Business discussion of chapter dealings
Guest speaker who may speak on any number of subjects relating to romance writing
  Critique sessions in which members bring up to 10 pages of their current manuscript to share with the other members who provide both written and oral feedback.

If You're Interested!

Please feel free to visit one of our meetings. Visitors may attend two meetings free of charge and there is no obligation to join.

Yearly membership in RWA National is required in order to be a member of NHRWA. National membership is at the cost of $75.00 annually with a $25.00 one-time processing fee. An application can be found at www.rwanational.org.

Our membership form can be emailed/regularly mailed to you. Yearly dues are $30.00 ~ this includes:

  Monthly meetings with guest speakers
Opportunity for critique sessions
 Bi-monthly electronic newsletter,  “Romance, She Wrote”
 Email loop on the web
 
New friends with mutual interests

 and much more!