Review & Awards Program
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Welcome to MWSA Review and Awards—your starting point for our unique system recognizing excellence in literature!
This page has been updated for the 2027 season. If you submitted your book for the 2026 season, click here for that season's information.
Who Can Submit
Submitting authors must be MWSA dues-paying members in good standing.
Associate or non-members are not eligible for this program.
What Can You Submit
General Restrictions
Authors may enter each book—or any part of an anthology—into our review and awards system only once.
Authors are limited to one book per season.
Content
MWSA specializes in books that honor our military but accepts books covering a wide variety of subjects. However...
Books that disparage our country or military are not accepted into our program.
MWSA is oriented toward the military family. If your book is primarily focused on violence and/or sexual situations, it might not be suitable for this organization.
MWSA reserves the right to decline to review—or list in our online library—any book it deems inappropriate for our website.
Publication Status
Your book must be published, have a valid ISBN (or ASIN for Kindle), and be available for purchase before you submit it.
Please DO NOT submit your book BEFORE it’s published!
Your book must have been published within the past five calendar years.
Format
MWSA accepts both paper and eBook formats for review.
Hardcover or softcover of any dimension is “paper.”
eBooks have slightly different evaluation criteria.
See our eBook page for more details—all authors submitting eBooks must read this page!
If you offer both formats for evaluation, you increase the odds that reviewers will sign up to assess your book.
Books in certain graphics/layout-intensive genres (Children’s Picture, Pictorial/Coffee Table, Poetry, and Graphic Novel/Comic Book) are only evaluated in paper formats (i.e., not Kindle). See the genre page for more details.
Genre/Category
MWSA only accepts books in genres/categories for which we’ve created a scoring form. Click here for genres we accept. You will be asked to choose ONE category on the submission form.
If you have any doubt about which category MWSA should use to evaluate your book, contact the awards directors.
If we think your book could score better in a different genre, we will let you know before we finalize our evaluation.
MWSA Book Submissions
MWSA strives to complete each submitted book’s evaluation in the same year the book is submitted. If a submission is not completed during the current season, we offer either a full refund or a rollover to the next season.
You may only submit a book between January 15 and March 15. The submission form is not accessible outside of those dates.
We accept only 100 books per season.
The cost of the program is $75
DO NOT SEND BOOKS BEFORE WE REQUEST THEM. When a team of three reviewers is assigned to your book, we will notify you to send three review copies.
Click here to learn more about MWSA’s scoring system and philosophy.
Updated 6/2/2026