Submission to the Leon Burstein Award are now closed. We received a fantastic response and judges are hard at work to meet our schedule. Winners will be announced at our upcoming Revels on December 2, 2024. Stay tuned for more details and registration. Thanks to everyone who submitted!
Announcing The MWA-New York/Leon Burstein Award 2024 Upcoming Chapter Members, do you have an unpublished crime novel? For the last decade the Leon Burstein Scholarship has supported upcoming writers in all crime genres. A recent winner wrote, “The scholarship went a long way to bolstering my confidence, no small matter when one is writing in solitude. I’m happy to report
Mystery Writers of America announces the establishment of the Lilian Jackson Braun Award for the best full-length, contemporary cozy mystery published by an MWA-approved publisher. This annual award comes with a $2,000 prize as the result of a generous endowment to MWA by the late Lilian Jackson Braun, who died in 2011 at the age of 97. Braun was the New
The Northwest Chapter of Mystery Writers of America is hosting a virtual workshop on Feb. 12 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PT via Zoom. The session is open to members from other chapters at a discount. It will cover: How to use Goodreads. Author platforms beyond social media. Indie publishing, traditional publishing, and moving between the two. Three bestselling
MWA-NY is looking forward to returning to partial live programming in August. But first we want to understand whether chapter members feel ready to return to live events. We have sent out a brief survey by email and would like to hear from as many members as possible by June 14 so we can start planning. If you do not
An online panel and a workshop on How to Write a Mystery will be held on consecutive Mondays in June to celebrate the release of How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America. The program is co-sponsored by MWA-New York and the New York Library Society. Panel, June 14 at 6 p.m.: Acclaimed mystery writers Jeffrey
“How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook by Mystery Writers of America” (April 27) Seventy of the most successful mystery writers in the business answering the question: What writing advice do you wish you’d had at the beginning of your career? “How to Write a Mystery” continues the Mystery Writers of America tradition of helping authors tell—and sell!—their stories, from the rank
When a Stranger Comes to Town (April 20) It’s been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories — a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there’s something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted
