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
- July - September
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
The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series
- December 1st - March 1st
- Series Editor: Octavio Quintanilla
- October 15th - December 15th
Partner Calls for Submissions
Visit our partnered organizations to view their calls for submissions.
The World We See: Women Poets on Neurodivergence is an anthology that focuses on women and non-binary poets that engage with the multitude of perspectives and topics connected to ADHD, Autism, OCD, and other neurodivergent experiences.
Edited by Lauren Slaughter
SUBMISSION PERIODS:
- Submissions will be open March 1-May 31.
- Free submissions in March and May.
- $3 submission fee in April.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
- Submissions will be open March 1-May 31.
- Please submit 1-5 poems.
- We welcome poetry of any style/form on any topic connected to neurodivergence, including living with neurodivergent conditions and parenting or navigating relationships with neurodivergent individuals.
- Please include a short cover letter as well as the names of the poems submitted.
- Submission should be in .doc (Word 1997-2003), or .docx (Word 2007 or 2010) format. Please include all submitted poems in only one attachment.
- We welcome simultaneous submissions.
- We welcome both new and previously published work. However, if poems have been previously published, submitters must hold rights to them and provide full publication data (journal and/or book publisher, title of book/journal if applicable, date of publication).
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. 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.