membership :: join Desert Rose
Thank you for your interest in the Desert Rose Writers' Group, the largest Arizona chapter of the Romance Writers of America. For detailed information on what Desert Rose stands for, please visit our About Us page.
A few of the benefits include:
- Monthly educational and networking meetings with nationally recognized writing instructors, best-selling authors, and industry professionals including acquiring editors and agents
- Critique groups for published and unpublished authors
- Monthly newsletter featuring industry updates, craft tips, and member news
- Subscription to Yahoo email loops for industry, craft, and brainstorming discussions
- Premium online workshops with discounts for members at Desert Rose Workshops
- Mentor program, where you can send in the first three chapters and synopsis and get candid and constructive comments by a published professional for only $10.00 per submission
- Speakers Bureau
- Chapter-sponsored book signings, book-fair booths, and special events for published authors
- Dynamic website
- Desert Dreams Writing Conference with discounts for members
- Multi-media library with CDs and tapes of past Desert Rose and RWA National conferences
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- Annual chapter dues are $30 for new members, $25 for members renewing by January 31.
Contact information
- Membership Applications & Inquiries: Nancy Chaney
- General Website Inquiries: Shelley Coriell
- Accounts Inquiries: Sonya Parsons
- To contact the chapter president: Terri Dunham