RNA Awards

For just over fifty years, the Romantic Novelists’ Association has recognised and given awards for the very best in romantic fiction, with its ‘Romantic Novel of the Year’ and its ‘Love Story of the Year’ Awards and with further Awards for Romantic Comedy of the Year and Historical Novel of the Year added for the 2011 awards.

From 2012, these Awards have been further extended, restructured and renamed:

There will be SIX Awards announced at the March Awards ceremony, five RoNAs (Romantic Novel Awards) - for paperback editions of novels, only - and one RoNA Rose Award.

The five RoNAs will be awarded to the winners of five specific categories of romantic novel, and the winning books, as soon as they are announced, will be given special paperback-edition promotion in participating bookshops around the whole country. The winners will also go forward to a panel of judges who will select an overall winner, who will receive the Romantic Novel of the Year Award later in the year at the RNA Summer Party in May.

The RoNA Rose Award replaces the previous ‘Love Story of the Year’ Award and celebrates shorter/category romantic fiction (which may be in a hardback or paperback edition.)

Each year, the RNA celebrates the best writing from among its own members with awards for both published and unpublished work. These awards are the the Joan Hessayon New Writers’ Scheme Award, the Katie Fforde Bursary and the Elizabeth Goudge Trophy.

The RNA is proud to be associated with the Harry Bowling Prize for New Writers.

For latest information about the awards, please visit our News pages.