Publishing
Explore our award-winning publications
Since its 1938 founding, Western National Parks has published award-winning books as a nonprofit publishing partner of the National Park Service. While we’ve greatly expanded our services for our partner parks, we still independently publish books—as well as trail guides and Junior Ranger booklets—to make the national park experience even more spectacular.
Our thoroughly researched, well-written, and beautifully designed books, many written in collaboration with the National Park Service, represent the unique diversity of our partner parks. Our books include books about the parks, cookbooks, children’s books, travel guides, trails guides, reference titles, and more. Every book sale supports the 70+ national parks that we partner with.
New 50th Anniversary Edition of An Army Wife’s Cookbook now available
Western National Parks is proud to announce the release of a special 50th anniversary edition of An Army Wife’s Cookbook, originally written by Alice Kirk Grierson. Enjoy delicious recipes and intriguing insights into the lives of nineteenth-century military families. Each recipe includes historical instructions and a modern update, and the new wire-o binding lies flat for ease of use.
The cookbook traces its origins to 1968 when Mrs. Edith Flynt Phillips of Dallas, Texas, donated the original manuscript to the National Park Service at Fort Davis National Historic Site. The book had been in her family since 1935 when her uncle, the owner of a second-hand store in Marfa, Texas, acquired it as George Grierson, the youngest child of Ben and Alice Grierson, cleared out the family properties at Fort Davis.
This new edition has been beautifully redesigned in full color with color-coded section tabs and a new introduction by National Park Service leadership at Fort Davis.
Award-Winning White Sands National Park Guide on sale
Located in New Mexico within the world’s largest expanse of gypsum sand dunes, White Sands National Park’s size compares only to the dunefields on planet Mars. This beautifully illustrated, National Park Service–approved guide to the park introduces readers to the cultural history, geology, ecology, and tourism of one of our nation’s most unique landscapes where the oldest-known evidence of human inhabitants on the continent was recently discovered.
Awards and honors
We’ve received dozens of awards for book writing, editing, and design. Honors have come from the Arizona Book Awards, Association of Partners for Public Awards, PubWest Design Awards, the Public Lands Alliance, and Tucson Advertising Federation.
Our publishing affiliations include membership with PubWest, longtime sponsorship of Tucson Festival of Books, and annual book donations to the nonprofit Literacy Connects.
Opportunities with WNP Publishing
Manuscript submissions
WNP is not accepting unsolicited submissions, proposals, manuscripts, or queries at this time. Please check back later for submission opportunities.
Book sales
If you are a publisher or self-published author and you have a book you’d like sold in a WNP store, contact purchasing@wnpa.org.
Rights and permissions
WNP publications and the contents thereof are not public domain. To ask about using excerpts or images from a WNP publication, contact publishing@wnpa.org.
Freelance opportunities
WNP works with talented authors, illustrators, and photographers on a freelance basis in our publishing activities. To join our freelancer roster, send your resume, portfolio, and related materials to publishing@wnpa.org. We will contact you if we want to contract with you.
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