RITA Award- Named after their first president, the Romance Writer's of America bestow over 10 awards to romance fiction authors. Look under AWARDS for RITA Award winners and Golden Heart winners.

RNA - Romantic Novelists' Association Awards - for the very best in romantic fiction, with its ‘Romantic Novel of the Year’ and its ‘Love Story of the Year’ Awards and with further Awards for Romantic Comedy of the Year and Historical Novel of the Year added for the 2011 awards.