If you’re interested in joining or learning more about OK-RWA, please contact the current OKRWA President.
May 11, 1989, twelve Oklahoma City area members of Romance Writers of America (eleven in person, one in spirit) met and formed OK-RWA. Three more meetings followed, all open to interested RWA members, in which we discussed and decided upon things such as chapter goals, bylaws, and basic policies and procedures.
Three short months later, Oklahoma Romance Writers of America was ready to roll. We had adopted a set of bylaws, we were in the process of filing for Federal tax-exempt status with the IRS, we were incorporating as a non-profit organization within the State of Oklahoma, we published the first edition of our newsletter, the OK CORRAL, and we had grown to 35 members, 15 of which were already published Romance novelists.
Some of our Founders and Charter Members have left us over the years, but this is who we were when we began:
CHARTER MEMBERS Founding Member * |
PAST PRESIDENTS |
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| Nancy Berland* | 1989 – Peggy Moreland | ||
| Alma Blair* | 1990 – Karren Radko | ||
| Willena Ferguson* | 1991 – Karren Radko | ||
| Marie Golloway* | 1992 – Pat Shaver | ||
| Georgina Gentry* | 1993 – Sharon Sala | ||
| Janis Reams Hudson* | 1994 – Cheryl Anne Porter | ||
| Patsy Klingstedt* | 1995 – Merline Lovelace | ||
| Peggy Moreland* | 1996 – Merline Lovelace | ||
| Cheryl Anne Porter* | 1997 – Debra Cowan | ||
| Karren Radko* | 1998 – Sharon Sala | ||
| Wendy Rego* | 1999 – Rinda Elliott | ||
| Pat Shaver* | 2000 – Rinda Elliott | ||
| Mary Beadles | 2001 – Jill Floyd | ||
| Sonya Birmingham | 2002 – Jill Floyd | ||
| Irene Black | 2003 – Donnell Epperson | ||
| Charlene Buerger | 2004 – Ammanda McCabe | ||
| Maureen Bullinger | 2005 – Terri Schaefer | ||
| Sherry Bynum | 2006 – Deb Behrens | ||
| Deborah Camp | 2007 – Vicki Hudoba | ||
| Jackie Casto | 2008 – Christy Gronlund | ||
| Debra Cowan | 2009 – Peggy Beaty | ||
| Elizabeth Dew | 2010 – Kathy Wheeler | ||
| Jean Hager | |||
| Brenda Hamilton | |||
| Barbara Kaye | |||
| Jacqueline King | |||
| Curtiss Ann Matlock | |||
| Deborah Morris | |||
| Sara Orwig | |||
| Elaine Quinn | |||
| Barbara Shelton |