MWA Approved Publisher List


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PLEASE NOTE: Mystery Writers of America is currently re-evaluating its list of publishers. As more publishers are reviewed and approved, they will be added. Approved publishers meet MWA’s professional standards of good business practice and fair treatment of authors. The books published by the publishers on this list currently qualify for submission for Edgar Award consideration and applications for Active Status membership. However, this list should not be considered a blanket endorsement or recommendation of any particular publisher. The list is under constant review and subject to change. To be sure of the current status of a publisher, or to ask about adding a publisher to our list, please contact the National Office. You should also carefully read the "join" page of the website to familiarize yourself with the requirements for Active Status membership. Last revision date: July 14, 2010

PUBLISHING COMPANIES APPROVED TO DATE BY MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE (Other publishers will be added as they are vetted and approved.)

  1. Academy Chicago Publishing
  2. Akashic Books
  3. Alaska Northwest Books
  4. Alyson
  5. American Bar Association Book Publishing
  6. Arbutus Press
  7. Avalon Books
  8. Avocet Press
  9. Baker Publishing Group (including Bethany House Publishers and Revell)
  10. Barbour Publishing
  11. Barricade Books
  12. Bella Books, including Rising Tide
  13. Bella Rosa Books
  14. BelleBooks
  15. Bitter Lemon Press
  16. Bleak House Books
  17. Bloomsbury Publishing, including Walker Publishing, USA
  18. Bold Strokes Books
  19. Brilliance Audio Books
  20. Busted Flush Press
  21. Bywater Books including Bloody Brits Press
  22. Candlewick Press
  23. Carroll & Graf
  24. Chicago Review Press
  25. Chronicle Books
  26. Coffee House Press
  27. Counterpoint Press, including Shoemaker & Hoard and Soft Skull Press
  28. Crum Creek Press
  29. Dorchester Publishing-Leisure Books
  30. Down East Books
  31. Down the Shore Publishing
  32. Dundurn Group, including Castle Street Mysteries
  33. ECW Press
  34. Europa Editions
  35. F&W Publications (all imprints)
  36. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (all imprints)
  37. Felony & Mayhem
  38. Five Star (subsidiary of Cengage)
  39. Foul Play Press
  40. Greenwood Press (including Praeger)
  41. Hachette Book Group, including Mysterious Press, Little, Brown & Co., Grand Central Books
  42. Hard Case Crime
  43. Harlequin (all imprints)
  44. HarperCollins, including Avon, William Morrow, Harper Torch, Regan Books, Rob Weisbach
  45. Harvest House
  46. Haworth Press
  47. HeartQuest (Tyndale House)
  48. Henry Holt & Co.
  49. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (all imprints)
  50. Hyperion
  51. Ingalls Publishing Group
  52. Intrigue Press
  53. Justin, Charles & Co.
  54. Kane Press
  55. Kensington, including Brava, Citadel, Dafina, Pinnacle Books, Zebra
  56. Kent State University Press
  57. Kunati Books
  58. Level Best Books (short stories only)
  59. Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club
  60. Llewellyn Worldwide and all divisions (including Flux and Midnight Ink)
  61. Lyle Stuart
  62. MacAdam/Cage Publishing
  63. MacMillan, including Pan Macmillan
  64. Marietta Publishing
  65. McBook Press
  66. McFarland & Co.
  67. Medallion Press
  68. Napoleon & Company, including RendezVous Crime
  69. New Horizon Press Books
  70. NewSouth Books
  71. Oceanview Publishing
  72. Orion Books
  73. The Overlook Press
  74. Overmountain Press, including Silver Dagger
  75. Peachtree Publishers
  76. Pegasus Books
  77. The Penguin Group, including Berkley, Berkley Prime Crime, Dutton, GP Putnam Sons, NAL, Onyx, Penguin, Putnam, Plume, Signet, Viking
  78. Perseverance Press, including John Daniel
  79. Permanent Press
  80. Pegasus Books
  81. Perseus Books Group, including Vanguard Press and Weinstein Books
  82. Piatkus Books
  83. Pleasant Company, including American Girl Books
  84. Pleasure Boat Studio
  85. Poisoned Pen Press
  86. Potomac Books
  87. Quirk Books
  88. Random House, including Ballantine Books, Bantam, Crown, Delacorte, Dell, Doubleday, Doubleday Broadway, Knopf, Multnomah Publishing, Pantheon, Villard, Waterbrook Press
  89. Scholastic Press (and all imprints)
  90. Serpent's Tail
  91. Severn House
  92. Simon & Schuster, including Atria, Howard Publishing, Scribner, Pocket Books and Pocket Star
  93. Small Beer Press
  94. Soho Press
  95. Southeast Missouri State University Press
  96. St. Martin's, including St. Martin's Press, Minotaur Books, and Thomas Dunne Books
  97. Steerforth Press
  98. Sterling Publishing, including Metro Books
  99. Stone Arch Books
  100. The Toby Press
  101. Thorndike Press
  102. Tor/Forge Books
  103. Twilight Times Books
  104. University of New Mexico Press
  105. University of Wisconsin Press
  106. Watermark Publishing (Books Hawaii)
  107. Wiley & Sons, all imprints
  108. W.W. Norton (including The Countryman Press)
  109. YMAA Publications
  110. Zondervan

POLICY ON UNIVERSITY PRESSES: Major state or private universities are to be approved; minor or relatively unknown schools must be reviewed.

APPROVED PERIODICAL/WEBZINE PUBLISHING COMPANIES APPROVED TO DATE BY MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

  1. American Way Magazine
  2. Antioch Review
  3. Back Alley Webzine
  4. Cemetery Dance Publications
  5. Dell Magazines, including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen Magazine
  6. Missouri Review
  7. Mystery Scene Magazine
  8. Necrotic Tissue
  9. Paradox Magazine
  10. Sniplits
  11. Spinetingler Magazine
  12. Strand Magazine
  13. Virginia Quarterly Review
  14. Woman’s World Magazine

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