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RWA Service Award
RWA Service Awards are intended to honor major commitments of service to RWA and are presented for the accumulated body of effort a volunteer may make during a lifetime.
To nominate an RWA member for the Service Award, e-mail nominations@rwa.org.
2013 RWA Service Award Recipients
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Julie Hurwitz
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Since joining RWA in 1988, Julie Hurwitz has served RWA at the local chapter and national levels. She has served on many committees including long range planning, workshops, and as the editor/agent appointment chair. She became Chapter Liaison in 2005 and then Region 6 Director, serving as board liaison to the Bylaws and Communications Committees and working on a variety of task forces. After serving as the PRO Steering Committee Chair, she is still involved on the PRO Steering Committee. Writing as Chloe Devlin, Hurwitz has sold several erotic short stories to Xcite Books and continues to pursue her writing with erotic short stories and novellas. |
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Eloisa James
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Eloisa James is a top five New York Times best-selling author of 22 historical romances, as well as a memoir, Paris in Love, which chronicles the year she and her family spent in France. Her most recent book is Once upon a Tower, a novel that brings Romeo and Juliet and Rapunzel together. A Shakespeare professor at Fordham University in New York City, she's also the mother of two children and, in a particularly delicious irony for a romance writer, is married to a genuine Italian knight. A member of RWA since 1998, James has served on the RWA Academic Grant Committee and helped ensure its success in the academic community. Visit her websites at http://www.eloisajames.com or say hi on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EloisaJamesFans. |
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Donna MacMeans
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A certified public accountant since 1977, Donna MacMeans discovered her true calling as a romance author two decades later. An RWA member since 1996, she served as president for her local chapter as well as chapter treasurer. As a chapter treasurer, she recognized the need for a network of chapter treasurers where they could share experiences, so she helped RWA establish TreasuryLink, a group dedicated to RWA chapter treasurers and their concerns. MacMeans has served on the RWA Finance Committee off and on for several years. She was also involved in establishing the PRO designation within RWA to recognize authors who had completed two very important milestones in their writing careers along the path to publication. MacMeans won the Golden Heart in 2006 with the manuscript that became her debut novel with Berkley Sensation. She has since published five romance historicals with Berkley; her second contemporary romantic suspense was published with Samhain under the pen name Donna Richards. |
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Trish Milburn
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Trish Milburn writes contemporary romance for Harlequin American Romance, paranormal romance for Harlequin Nocturne, and young-adult fiction for Bell Bridge Books as well as self-publishing her romantic suspense and women’s fiction titles. She's been an RWA member for 17 years and is a charter member of Music City Romance Writers. After serving several years as an MCRW officer and as newsletter editor, she began volunteering at the national level. She put her journalism background to work as editor of RWA eNotes then later as the liaison to the Romance Writers Report from the Board of Directors. During her five years on the RWA Board, she served first as PRO Liaison and then as a Region 3 Director. She’s a two-time Golden Heart award winner, a fan of walks in the woods and road trips, and is a big geek girl, including being a dedicated Whovian and Browncoat. Fans of Doctor Who and Firefly will know what those terms mean. |
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Past RWA Service Award Recipients
| 2012: |
Natalie Damschroder, Dorien Kelly, & Diane Pershing
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| 2011: |
Amy Atwell, Nikki Enlow, Stephanie Feagan, & Linda Howard |
| 2010: |
Madeline Hunter |
| 2009: |
Karen Fox |
| 2008: |
Nicole Burnham & Jill Limber |
| 2007: |
Katy Cooper, Jennifer Crump, Pam McCutcheon, & Connie Newman |
| 2006: |
Mary Strand & Nancy Haddock |
| 2005: |
Jill Barnett, Gail Freeman, & Laura Hayden |
| 2004: |
no award given
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| 2003: |
Sunni Jeffers, Alicia Rasley, & Mary Stella |
| 2002: |
Jill Floyd & Sandra Kitt |
| 2001: |
Jeanne Nicholson, Maggie Shayne & Carol Stephenson |
| 2000: |
Alice Countrymen & Linda Prine |
| 1999: |
Brenda Hamilton, Shannon Snow Lewis, Betty Rosenthal, Valerie Taylor, & Susan Wiggs |
| 1998: |
Laura Baker & Rita Clay Estrada |
| 1997: |
Donna Caubarreaux, Laura DeVries, Lynda Hales, & Alfie Thompson |
| 1996: |
Debra Dixon, Theresa Goodman, Anne Holmberg, Janet Kuchler, Kim Lewis, & Kate Welsh |
| 1995: |
Rita Gallagher, Cathie Linz, Debbie Macomber, & Karan Richardson |
| 1994: |
Margaret Brownley, Patt Marr, & Maggie Osborne |
| 1993: |
Darlene Layman, Harold Lowry, & Nora Simpson |
| 1992: |
Emma Merritt, Sharon Winn, Jan Boies, Glenda Kachelmeier, Susan Horton, Darlene Layman, & Claudia Yates |
| 1991: |
Kathy Clark & Jeanne Triner |
| 1990: |
Marian Jones |
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