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

Open Reading Period

  • 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

VersoFrontera

  • Series Editor: Octavio Quintanilla
  • October 15th - December 15th

Partner Calls for Submissions

Visit our partnered organizations to view their calls for submissions.

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.

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