Welcome

RIRW exists to promote excellence in women’s and popular fiction, to help writers become published and build careers in their writing field, and to provide continuing support for writers within the women’s and popular fiction publishing industry. Formed in 1983 as a Romance Writers of America chapter, we disaffiliated in 1988. We are an independent, nonprofit organization in Rhode Island.

If you are serious about writing popular fiction, we invite you to join us! Click here to see membership benefits.

We welcome everyone, without regard to race, color, national origin, disability, religion, cultural identity, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, physical appearance, or any other identity distinction. Furthermore, we recognize that because racism, homophobia, and other forms of bias are systemic in our national culture, people from marginalized communities continue to be denied advancement in our industry. RIRW strives to address this by raising awareness within our membership and increasing our efforts to attract members from a variety of backgrounds to enrich our community of writers.

We meet from September to June on the first Saturday of the month (except for February, when we hold our annual retreat). Because of holidays and/or other conflicts, the date or venue may change (scroll down to see list of dates). We will announce changes here on our home page. We do meetings via ZOOM.

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We welcome Visitors for up to two sessions before you need to join. If you would like to check us out, please send us a message by NOON on Friday (day before meeting) and we’ll send you the ZOOM link.

Nov. 2, 2024 — Brenda Chin on Layering

Find out…

·         How building a book is like building a house. You can’t stop at the foundation.

·         What about the B storyline? How does it interact with the main plot?

·         Subplots – do you need them?

·         How to use a storyboard to make layering a piece of cake.

·         How to layer in background information without a dump.

·         Why readers love it when you layer in hints of future events, or drop in Easter eggs for them to follow.

gather to chat at noon; Meeting starts at 12:30, with workshops starting about 1:30

September 7 Susan Kaye Quinn

October 5 – Renita McKinney on Trends and Tropes

November 2 – Brenda Chin on Layering

December 14 (ARIA Expo is Dec 7) – Jeanette Smith on Self-editing

January 4 

Jan. 31 -1 February 1 (Retreat, with Deb Dixon and Jo Ann Ferguson)

March 1

April 5 (Easter 20 April)

May 3

June 7