About The RNA Industry Awards

Launched in 2015, the annual RNA Industry Awards (the RIAs) is one of the UK publishing industry’s highlights and is designed to acknowledge and recognise the many professionals whose work supports and promotes the genre of romantic fiction. 

Professionals are able to nominate themselves or colleagues by completing a 500-word statement, detailing how they meet each criteria. Each category is then judged against a robust and defined criteria by the RNA Board and Management Team.

Romantic fiction is a worldwide, multi-billion dollar business of which the life force is thousands of writers and their readers. The Romantic Novelists’ Association is the UK’s largest professional body for the industry and benefits from the support, through membership and friendship, of many people including publishers, editors, agents, booksellers, and other industry professionals. Everyone involved in the industry fully appreciates that a book is not just the work of the author but the work of many in what is a truly collaborative process.

The RNA Industry Awards enables us to acknowledge and recognise the wide range of professionals who support our work, the genre and the association at large.

The awards ceremony takes place at a lunchtime event in London allowing attendees to celebrate and network with the RNA and other industry professionals.