WELCOME! 

Glad you stopped by.  We do hope you’ll take a moment to look around our website. If you have any questions, we hope you’ll contact us.

Our home is located in Des Moines, Iowa.  We provide support, encouragement, educational programs, and mentor published and unpublished members of the writing profession.  It’s easy to join and become one of us.

Our members write romances that include contemporaries, historicals, paranormals, time travels, mysteries, suspense, inspirationals, erotic and women’s fiction – just to name a few. We welcome writers of all genres -- come join us, no matter what you write.

Our programs are varied and cover everything from fiction writing basics and getting published to the business side of your writing career, and everything in-between.

For more information, including dates and topics, please click on the Meetings link above.

We’re a fun group of romance writing authors as you can tell from some of our photos.

Here's a photo from our November 2010 retreat for members. We're getting into character for a writing exercise and we had a blast doing it!

This is a few of our members ready for our December Awards Banquet. We're just eyeing the menu while waiting on the rest of the gang.

Here our August 2010 speaker, Eric Hall West, author of "TRUCK, A Quarter Life Crisis Handled Poorly", autographs his book for members.

Some of our group attended a Wisconsin conference in May 2010. Here we enjoy dinner together.

In January 2010, some of our members showed off our newly designed Chapter T-shirts. Aren't they great!

Here's our 2009 Awards Banquet photo above and even though some of our members couldn't make it to the banquet, we celebrated for them!

TRRA is Chapter 220 of Romance Writers of America®.  We are the local Des Moines, Iowa group you've heard about! Our membership includes writers from all over Iowa.  AND we have a chair waiting especially for you!

Member Benefits

Membership in TRRA offers a number of writing-related benefits in addition to all the wonderful benefits you get when you belong to Romance Writers of America.  Some of the benefits of belonging to TRRA are:

• New member packet, packed full of useful information such as a suggested reading list, glossary of publishing terms, checklist for manuscript preparation, and much more.
• Monthly meetings with guest speakers discussing a variety of writing-related topics.
• The Rivers’ Current, the Two Rivers Romance Authors on-line newsletter featuring informative articles not only from members of our own chapter, but from other chapters of RWA as well.
• A chapter library which includes instructional CDs with up-to-date information from agents and publishers.
• Discounted website design and maintenance services.
• Twice a year writing retreats and plotting sessions.
• Monthly critique group to help you get your work fine tuned.
• Admittance to TRRA’s on-line groups and blog.
• An Annual Awards Banquet to celebrate members’ accomplishments.
• Admittance to TRRA workshops at discounted prices.
• Road trips to writing-related workshops, conferences and sister chapter events, along with road trips to interesting places around Iowa and surrounding states to help stir the creative caldron.
• A chapter Knowledge Database.
• Membership in Mean Maggie’s Motivational Madness Club.
• Loads of fun, camaraderie, support of fellow writers and much, much more!