Submission Schedule
Annual Contests
The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize
- $10,000 advance + residency at Vermont Studio Center
- July - September
The George Garrett Fiction Prize
- $2,000 advance
- April - June
The Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize
- $1,000 advance
- January - March
The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize
- $1,000 advance
- January - March
Annual Calls for Submissions
- April 1st - April 30th
The Sabine Series in Literature
- Series Editor: J. Bruce Fuller
- April 1st - April 30th
- Series Editor: Octavio Quintanilla
- August 1st - September 30th
Partner Calls for Submissions
Visit our partnered organizations to view their calls for submissions.
TRP Book/Series Proposals
This submission form is open only for proposals of scholarly nonfiction, trade nonfiction, edited anthologies, or edited book series.
Submissions to this form of single-author creative works of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction will not be considered. If you are interested in submitting a single-author creative work, open calls for submissions are on our Submittable page, and our full submissions schedule is listed on our website.
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TRP is particularly interested in projects that would fit in one of the following areas:
- 20th & 21st Century American Poetry
- Creative Writing Studies
- Environmental Writing
- Gulf Coast Studies
- Hybrid Genres
- Innovative Prose
- Literary Fiction
- Poetics
- Southern Studies
- Texas Studies
If TRP is interested in pursuing your project, it will move on to the peer review and editorial processes.
AI Content Policy
TRP does not accept submissions that include text, images, data, or any other content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including but not limited to large language models. Submitted work must be original and previously unpublished in any form. AI-generated manuscripts are not eligible.