- 2024: No award given
- 2023: No award given
- 2022: No award given
- 2021: No award given
- 2020: No award given
- 2019: Bim Adewunmi, "Meet the Women Who Are Building a Better Romance Industry," BuzzFeed News
- 2018: No award given
- 2017: Thu-Huong Ha, "Maverick Women Writers are Upending the Book Industry and Selling Millions in the Process," Quartz
- 2016: Kelly Faircloth, "How Harlequin Became the Most Famous Name in Romance," Jezebel.com
- 2015: Joyce Lamb, "6 Things We Love about EW's Spread on Romance Novels," Happy Ever After
- 2014: No award given
- 2013: No award given
- 2012: Denise Schipani, "7 Life Lessons from Romance Novels," Woman's Day
- 2011: award not given
- 2010: Gwenda Bond, "Romancing the Recession," Publishers Weekly
- 2009: Ron Charles, "Heating Up the Stacks," Washington Post
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- 2008: No award given
- 2007: No award given
- 2006: Mary Bly, "A Fine Romance," The New York Times
- 2005: Don O'Briant, "Romantic Encounters-Romance Diversifies, Expands," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- 2004: No award given
- 2003: Teri Sprackland, UPI wire correspondent, "Romancing Readers Worth Billions"
- 2002: Nora Schoenberg, "Romance in the Classroom"
- 2001: Patricia McLinn, "Go Ahead, Make Jokes. We'll Be Here with Our Fans," Washington Post
- 2000: John Charles, Shelley Mosley, and Ann Bouricius, "Romance the YA Reader," the Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
- 1999: award not given
- 1998: Lucinda Dyer, "Roundup on Romance: Birds Do It, Bees Do It," Publishers Weekly
- 1996: Betsy Carpenter, "Living the Fantasy - Romance Writers Get Some Respect, Scholarly Interest and Tons of Readers," U.S. News & World Report
- 1995: Shelley Mosley, John Charles, and Julie Havir, "The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance?", Wilson Library Bulletin
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