Harry Bowling Prize

Harry Bowling

The Romantic Novelists’ Association is pleased to be associated with the Harry Bowling Prize for New writing, which is presented at the Pure Passion Awards.

This prize celebrates the work of Harry Bowling, a longstanding member of the RNA and much loved and best selling author of Cockney sagas. It is awarded every two years, to a previously unpublished writer. It will be awarded next in 2012. The RNA Chair is one of the judges for this award. For more details, please visit the Harry Bowling Prize website www.harrybowlingprize.co.uk.

It's a fact

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, by Samuel Richardson, published in 1740, is generally considered the first romance novel.