And the Winners Are—-2025 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards
First and foremost we want to thank all of those who submitted their stories for consideration for this year’s NERFA contest. Our reader judges enjoyed your submissions and look forward to even more next year. Secondly, to ALL of the finalists be sure to treat yourself to something special as all of your hard work to get your story into the hands of your readers in 2024 was extremely difficult task but you did it and our judges believes that all of you are very special indeed.
For the moment everyone was waiting for, here is the list of the winners our expert judges choose for the 2025 National Excellent in Romance Fiction Award(s) NERFA –
Contemporary Romance
Making the Play by AD Lynn
Historical/Regency Romance
One Kiss to Desire by Grace Callaway
Mainstream Fiction
Black Heart(s) by Calliope Daniels
Romance Novella
The Scoundrel’s Christmas Challenge by Aubrey Wynne
Romantic Suspense
False Evidence by Rachel Grant
Speculative Romance
The Smell of Smoke and Ash by Patty Blount
First Book
Piece by Piece by Twila Mason
Celebrate With Our Winners!
Message From the Editor
Over the next several weeks we hope to receive videos and pictures from our winners with their lovely trophies and to be able to share their book covers that proudly don their NERFA 2025 Winner Stickers. Throughout the remaining months our Director of Communications will be posted separate videos of each of the category winners. So, please keep checking our social media pages, liking, subscribing and commenting. Also, for an insider’s look into the many great benefits of joining as a member of First Coast Romance Writers which is only $50 per year and you will have access to all of our writing workshops from the past, Zoom links for our future workshops at no extra cost, if you cannot attend in person, as well as fun and informative articles about the romance genre for readers as well as writers. CLICK HERE to join our newsletter. Until Next Year, Writers Keep Writing and Readers Keep Reading!
