OCRW Welcomes Guests, New Members & Renewing Members!
Sign up here. Complete the Membership Registration form, and the link to pay your annual membership dues appears at the bottom of the form. Once you fill out the form, open the PayPal link in a new window, then come back to the form and click SUBMIT. If you don’t click SUBMIT, the information on the form doesn’t reach us.
OCRW Membership Fee & Benefits
OCRW’s purpose is to promote excellence in romance fiction, to help writers exchange their knowledge and establish career goals, and to support and encourage our members through all levels of their careers.
Membership is a calendar year membership, running from January to December annually. Membership fees are currently $60. If you have questions about fees, please email the President at president@ocromwriters.org.
Your membership includes:
- In-person meetings at $15 rate (non-members pay $25) featuring a variety of speakers and topics from industry professionals.
- Online meetings at a $10 rate (non-members pay $15)
- Reduced rate for our annual Celebration of Romance meeting.
- Monthly newsletter featuring our members new book releases and special announcements.
- Access to OCRW’s general networking forum, Morning Juice, and private Facebook Group.
- Opportunity to participate in contests, weekly write-ins, critique groups, Book in a Year and other special events.
- Listing in our chapter member online directory (coming soon)
- Volunteer opportunities to engage with best-selling author guests.
- Member-only rates on workshops.
- Member-only access to special functions and general resources.
We have two classes of membership:
General membership is open to all persons seriously pursuing a romance fiction writing career. For purposes of membership, “romance fiction” is defined to include (a) the commonly known genre of romance, including any sub-genre within the romance genre, and (b) any fiction that includes a romantic subplot.
Associate membership is open to all other individuals who support the OCRW and its purposes but who do not meet the requirements for General membership such as editors, agents, graphic designers, audio book voice actors, and writers who do not write romance fiction but are involved in the writing profession.
Sign-up here for 2024! Please click this link to complete the Membership Registration form, and the link to pay your annual membership dues appears at the bottom of the form. Once you fill out the form, open the PayPal link in a new window, then come back to the form and click SUBMIT. If you don’t click SUBMIT, the information on the form doesn’t reach us.
If you have any questions about your membership, please email membership@ocromwriters.org.