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ORWA fees are $4o.00 per annum, which provides access to general meetings, workshops, an internet chat group, and the Love Knot newsletter. Membership also allows you to enter our annual chapter writing contest.

As we are a chapter of the Romance Writers of America^®, members of ORWA must first belong to RWA National.

Non-members may attend a meeting&workshop for a guest fee of $10.00. This is an excellent way to check out who we are and what we're about! Just come to a meeting and touch base with the Registrar.

For more information, drop us an email.

ORWA usually meets the first Sunday of the month (unless that falls on a holiday, then it's the 2nd Sunday), September through to May, at the Ottawa Citizen building on Baxter Road in Ottawa. For directions, click here.

We're done our formal meetings until the fall. Enjoy the summer!

Next General Meeting: September 7th , 2008, 1 p.m.

Workshop (starts at 2 p.m.): Emotion without Sentimentality offered by Alicia Rasley, editor, author and highly acclaimed speaker. To learn more about Alicia visit her Writer's Corner at http://www.sff.net/people/alicia or at the blog she co-authors with editor Theresa Stevens: Edittorrent.

Future Meetings and Workshops:

October 5th - Laurie Schnebly Campbell, two 1-hour workshops: "Psychology for Creating Characters" and "Block-busting: Putting the Joy Back in Writing"
November 2nd - ORWA general elections; Maureen Fisher, "Mistakes New Writers Make"
December 7th - Vanessa Kelly & Teresa Wilde, "Bah Humbug! A Dickens of a Character Arc"

ORWA hosts Sweet and Spicy 2 - The Plot Thickens, a romance writing conference, September 27-28, 2008. Join us for some fabulous workshops, great opportunities to interact with writers, and our Sunday afternoon book signing.

To sign up, visit our conference page and complete the registration form.