The award is sponsored by Dell Magazines, which publishes Analog.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine is published by Dell Magazines, Penny Publications, New York.

It was first published in the October 2003 issue of Dell Magazines' anthology publication Analog, and has subsequently been collected in several science fiction anthology collections.

It was created in Indianapolis in 1979 by Howard Garns and it appeared in Dell Magazines afterwards.

Dell Magazines was a company founded by George T. Delacorte Jr. in 1921 as part of his Dell Publishing Co.

Dell Magazines started publishing its Louis L'Amour Western Magazine in January.

Dell Magazines was sold in 1997, and it still exists as a major publisher of puzzle magazines, also publishing science fiction, mystery and horoscope magazines.

"Oceanic" was first published in the August 1998 edition of Asimov's Science Fiction by Dell Magazines.

In 1992 Davis Publications sold the magazine to Dell Magazines, who continue to publish it to this day.

Dell Magazines was in turn acquired by Penny Publications with headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut, US.