Texas Review Press

Fiction, Non-fiction, History, Sports, Poetry
exasreviewpress.org
trp@shsu.edu
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About Texas Review Press

Founded in 1979,  the Texas Review Press (officially known as The University Press of SHSU) is committed to publishing quality poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and scholarship. TRP currently publishes between twenty-four and thirty titles each year.

Housed at Sam Houston State University, TRP: The University Press of SHSU is a member of the Texas A&M Press Texas Book Consortium, the Association of University Presses, and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.

Texas Review Press Submissions

All unsolicited authors welcome. No agent required.

TRP does not accept unsolicited submissions via mail or email. They only consider manuscripts submitted through Submittable. Their Open Reading Period and Series submission schedule is below.

Texas Review Press publishes thirty to fifty new titles a year. All books are published simultaneously in print and eBook editions and sold all over the world.

The Press’s publishing program spans a range of fields:

– Poetry
– Texas history, art, and culture
– American history (Western, military, environmental, ethnic, women’s, and political history)
– Borderlands, Mexican American, and immigration studies
– Natural history, natural resource science, agriculture, and the environment
– Archaeology, nautical archaeology, and physical anthropology
– Sports and sports history
– Consumer health and veterinary medicine

Open Calls for Submissions

Open to all eligible contributors during the scheduled submission windows.

April

Open Reading Period

The Sabine Series in Literature

The George Garrett Fiction Prize

April – June

The George Garrett Fiction Prize

July – September

The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize

August – September

VersoFrontera Series

Good luck!

Meet the Editors

Bruce Fuller, Ph.D. (Director) – J. Bruce is the author of How to Drown a Boy (LSU Press, 2024). His chapbooks include The Dissenter’s Ground, Lancelot, and Flood, and his poems have appeared at The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, McNeese Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Best New Poets 2022.

Pete “PJ” Carlisle, Ph.D. (Senior Editor) – PJ’s cross-genre creative work has won numerous prizes—including the Internal Mary McCarthy Award for Fiction (Innovative Novel) at Bard College, the Turow-Kinder Prize (Novella), and the AWP Journals Project Award in Fiction.

Taylor Byas, Ph.D.(Editor-at-large) – Taylor is a Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is also a Features Editor for The Rumpus, an Editorial Advisor for Jackleg Press, and a member of the Beloit Poetry Journal Editorial Board. She is the author of two chapbooks, her debut full-length, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times from Soft Skull Press (which won the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award.

Thank you and Happy Publishing…

Texas Review Press
The University Press of SHSU
P.O. Box 2146
Huntsville, TX 77341-2146

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