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Crossway
Christian, Academic, Nonfiction
Published Updated Reviewed every month · next review November 2026
About Crossway
Crossway is open to book proposals from authors without an agent. It wants evangelical Christian nonfiction, takes proposals through an online form and gets in touch within 8 weeks only if it is interested.
Crossway is a nonprofit Christian publisher in Wheaton, Illinois, founded in 1938. It publishes the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible and evangelical nonfiction by pastors, scholars and teachers.
Unlike many larger Christian publishers, Crossway publishers read proposals sent by authors directly. You fill in an online form, and Crossway contacts you within eight weeks if it wants to go further. It asks writers not to email or call about status.
What Crossway is looking for
Evangelical Christian nonfiction in four areas:
- Key issues facing Christians
- The Christian life
- A Christian worldview
- Academic and professional books
Publishes
- Academic
- Christian
- Nonfiction
- Religion and Spirituality
Specialties
- Christian living
- Devotional
How to submit to Crossway
From its own guidelines- Read the Crossway submissions page and check your book fits its four areas.
- Fill in the online book proposal form linked from that page.
- Wait 8 weeks. If Crossway is interested, it contacts you. If not, you will not hear back.
- Do not email or call to ask about your proposal.
Is Crossway right for your book?
A good fit if
You write nonfiction from a clearly evangelical point of view, with teaching that serves readers or the church.
Look elsewhere if
- Fiction or poetry
- End-times or prophecy books
- Collected sermons
- Personal experience stories or popular biographies
- Art books
Questions about Crossway
Does Crossway accept unsolicited proposals?
Yes. Crossway reads book proposals sent by authors without an agent through the online form on its submissions page. It wants evangelical Christian nonfiction. If Crossway is interested it contacts you within eight weeks; if you hear nothing, it has decided not to go ahead.
What do Crossway publishers not accept?
Crossway publishers do not accept fiction, poetry, end-times or prophecy books, collected sermons, personal experience stories, popular biographies, exposés or art books. They also do not take unsolicited tracts. Check this list before you fill in the form, because a proposal outside Crossway's four areas will not move forward.
How long does Crossway take to respond?
Crossway responds within eight weeks if it wants to move forward. If you hear nothing after eight weeks, the answer is no. Crossway asks authors not to email or call about the status of a proposal. Keep working on your book in the meantime, and only send it elsewhere once the eight weeks have passed.
Listing history
- Checked on the publisher's own site
