To refer to everything that a writer has published, including multiple editions of the same works as well as different works
- singular: body of work; corpus; complete published work; collection, literature (if everything published is written work)
Example: "The W.B. Yeats Collection is an invaluable tool in the debate surrounding the revision and textual editing of Yeats's corpus. It enables users to search across the final published versions of his poems and essays and to trace the development of his ideas and techniques." http://www.proquest.com/products-services/yeats.html
If something has been published and re-published (any number of times, and including re-published with changes)
- singular: edition, print run, printing run, printing, impression, press run
- plural: editions, print runs, printing runs, printings, impressions, press runs
edition [ih-dish-uh n] noun
1. one of a series of printings of the same book, newspaper, etc., each issued at a different time and differing from another by alterations, additions, etc. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/edition?s=t
Strictly speaking, an edition does not require any alterations, additions, etc. from another edition - the traditional meaning of the word was actually focused on copies of the book printed from substantially the same setting of type, including all minor typographical variants. Normally, if for no other reason than small errors, etc., there were variations but these were not required. Further, as the above source notes, the meaning of the word edition has changed to be even closer to the other words noted above so that, for instance, in modern times book collectors refer to a first edition with the same meaning as a first impression, or the first commercial publication of a work between its own covers, so even if the same publisher using the same type later makes other copies these won't be that same edition in the modern use of the word by book collectors.
If something has been published
- singular: author credit; credit; published work; printing; publication (publication was first suggested by FumbleFingers but incorporated here)
- plural: author credits; credits; credit list; published works; printings; publications
Example: "what do you put in the "publishing credits" section of the query letter if you don't have any publishing credits?" http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2007/06/what-to-do-if-you-dont-have-publishing.html
If something is submitted to be published
- singular: submission (submission was first suggested by Spencer but incorporated here)
- plural: submissions
Collins English Dictionary: submission /səbˈmɪʃən/ noun
If something is unpublished, including submissions (the definition above)
- singular: unpublished work
- plural: unpublished works; unpublished collection
"Unpublished refers to any information source that is not officially released by an individual, publishing house, or other company, and can include both paper and electronic sources. Some examples of unpublished sources may include manuscripts accepted for publication but still "in-press," data from an unpublished study, letters, manuscripts in preparation, memos, personal communications (including e-mails), and raw data. " http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/henrichsenl/APA/APA14.html