Literacy signing. Here is the list of YARWA authors signing on Wednesday night. 

Adina, Shelley
Astor, Kristi
Childs, Tera Lynn
Doyle, Marissa
Echols, Jennifer
Elkeles, Simone
Ferraro, Tina
Francis, Melissa
Gerber, Linda
Hall, Traci
Painter, Kristen
Smith, Kathryn
Strasnick, Lauren
Toliver, Wendy

Please stop by their table, even if it's just to say "hi."  It makes authors feel special. :-)  


YARWA Meeting on Thursday at 7:30-9:30 PM in "Asia 3"

Our program will be: "At the Threshold: Rita winning YA authors tell all." Tera Lynn Childs (Best first novel 2009) and Rosemary Clement-Moore (Best YA Novel 2009) talk about the craft of YA, writing for the YA audience, the practical differences between YA and adult market/publishers, and YA's place in RWA. 

Be sure and follow @ya_rwa on Twitter. (Note the underscore!)

Anything Nationals related will be under the #rwa10 hashtag. YARWA news will have the hashtag #yarwa.

At long last, here we are. An official Special Interest Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. We’re new, and still getting our feet under us, so bear with us.

YARWA is an online chapter. We operate through a yahoo group, and our “meetings” occur online. We network, share information, have classes, and once a year we get together at the RWA National Convention.

If you are interested in joining us, e-mail the secretary or president for more information.

Exciting news at the RWA National Convention. YARWA members Rosemary Clement-Moore, Tera Lynn Childs, and Tina Ferraro were all up for the RWA’s prestigious RITA award.  Tera was a double finalist, as she was also in contention for the RITA for Best First Book. In fact, she won!

This was an awesome night for Young Adult writers. Tera’s win (for Oh. My. Gods.) shows that YA books aren’t just great books for kids. They’re great books, period.

Congratulations everyone!

Membership Access

Right now YARWA's in the middle of membership renewals. Rest assured, once the membership roster has been established access information will be provided for our members.

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Who are we

The Young Adult Chapter of the Romance Writers of America is an online Special Interest Chapter for career minded writers of Young Adult or Teen fiction with strong romantic elements. Want to learn more?

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