We announced Donna Andrews and Lee Child as 2026 Grand Masters!

Congratulations to John Scognamiglio, recipient of the 2026 Ellery Queen Award! #Edgars2026

Congratulations Book Passage, winner of the 2026 Raven Award! #Edgars2026

Congratulations to Lee Child, 2026 Grand Master! #Edgars2026

Congratulations to Donna Andrews, 2026 Grand Master! #Edgars2026

MWA Announces 2026 Grand Masters, Raven & Ellery Queen Award Recipients mysterywriters.org/2026-special... #Edgars2026

Exciting News!!!  MWA will be holding “extra” signings at our table at Bouchercon this year. Our tables will be in the Acadia Ballroom on the 3rd Floor of the Marriott New Orleans Hotel. Here is the link to the daily schedules: mysterywriters.org/mwa-at-bouch... #bouchercon2025

Don't know what to do this holiday weekend?? How about reading a new book by one of MWA's members - here is the July list - mysterywriters.org/new-books-by...

New Books by MWA Members - May 2025: mysterywriters.org/new-books-by...

The Edgars Symposium is now up on YouTube. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The winners!

Congratulations to everyone! @mysterywriters.bsky.social crimereads.com/mwa-announce...

Congratulations to Charlotte Vassell, winner of Best Novel for The In Crowd (Penguin Random House – Doubleday). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Henry Wise, winner of Best First Novel by an American Author for Holy City (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Kimberly Belle, winner of Best Paperback Original for The Paris Widow (Harlequin Trade Publishing – Park Row Books). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to @erikakrouse.bsky.social, winner of Best Short Story for "Eat My Moose," Conjunctions: 82, Works & Days (Bard College). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to John Sandford, 2025 Grand Master! #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Laura Lippman, 2025 Grand Master. #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Steven Johnson, winner of Best Fact Crime for The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective (Penguin Random House - Crown). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Nathan Ashman, winner of Best Critical/Biographical for James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (McFarland Publishing). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Natalie D. Richards, winner of Best Young Adult for 49 Miles Alone (Sourcebooks – Sourcebooks Fire). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Margaret Peterson Haddix, winner of Best Juvenile for Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key (HarperCollins – Quill Tree Books). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Tom Fontana & Scott Frank, winners of Best Television Episode Teleplay for “Episode One” – Monsieur Spade (AMC). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Face in a Book Bookstore & Gifts, El Dorado Hills, CA, winner of the Raven Award. #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Peter Wolverton, St. Martin’s Press, winner of the Ellery Queen Award. #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Anna Stolley Persky, winner of the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for “The Jews on Elm Street,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September-October 2024 by (Dell Magazines). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Katarina Bivald, winner of The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award for The Murders in Great Diddling by (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to Jacqueline Winspear, winner of The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award for The Comfort of Ghosts (Soho Press – Soho Crime). #Edgars2025

Congratulations to @sularigentill.bsky.social, winner of The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award for The Mystery Writer (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press). #Edgars2025

We'll be going Live with the 79th Edgar Awards shortly. Watch the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/--2Tikl...

Eddie is waiting #edgars2025

For the seventh year in a row, Molly Odintz (@mollsotov.bsky.social rounds up the Edgar Award nominees to weigh in on the world of crime writing. Here's Part 2: crimereads.com/the-state-of...

It's that time of year! The State of the Mystery via @crimereads.bsky.social. #edgars2025 crimereads.com/the-state-of...

Exciting news!!! For the first time since 2019, the Edgar Symposium will be IN PERSON!! Visit this link for all the details about the symposium, the Edgar Awards banquet and the hotel: mysterywriters.org/2025-edgar-a... #edgars2025

Can't make it to the Edgars? Catch the livestream: bit.ly/MWAYouTube #edgars2025

The 2025 Edgar Awards banquet is two weeks from tonight!! We are still selling tickets - mysterywriters.org/product/2025... Come and find out whose names will be called when we open the envelopes! #edgars2025

Have you registered yet for the Edgars Symposium? A day of scintillating panels, capped by a conversation between the 2025 Grand Masters, Laura Lippmann and John Sandford. Missing it would be a crime. #Edgars2025 mysterywriters.org/2025-edgar-s...

Announcing the recipients of the 2025 Barbara Neely Scholarship: mysterywriters.org/mwa-announce... Congratulations to Aime Austin and Grace Wynter

Looking for something new to read? Start here - new books by MWA Members - April 2025 - mysterywriters.org/new-books-by...

ONE MONTH FROM TODAY!! Our first in-person Edgar symposium since 2019 and it is going to be amazing so register now!! And then attend the banquet the next night! mysterywriters.org/2025-edgar-a... #edgars2025

80 years ago today!

MWA is offering two tickets to this years Edgar Awards banquet to support this incredibly important event - Crime Writers for Trans Rights: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Today, on March 15, 1945, Mystery Writers of America was incorporated. Happy 80th anniversary to us!! Thank you to all our members, past and present for all the support.

Have you registered yet for this year's IN-PERSON symposium? Open to MWA and non-MWA members. Check it out: mysterywriters.org/2025-edgar-s.... #Edgars2025

Registration is now open for our next MWA University. March 25, 2025 - 8:00 p.m. NY Time - Crime is Kid's Stuff. A round-table with Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Michael Thomas Ford and Fleur Bradley Visscher mysterywriters.org/2025-mwa-uni...

New books by MWA Members - March 2025: mysterywriters.org/new-books-by...

For the first time since 2019, the Edgar Symposium will be IN PERSON!! Register today: mysterywriters.org/2025-edgar-s...

Exciting news!!! For the first time since 2019, the Edgar Symposium will be IN PERSON!! Visit this link for all the details about the symposium, the Edgar Awards banquet and the hotel: mysterywriters.org/2025-edgar-a... #edgars2025

New Books by MWA Members - February 2025. Another great list of new books! mysterywriters.org/new-books-by...