Submission Schedule

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 early submissions through March 31.
• $3 submission fee April 1-May 31.
   

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 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.

TRP: The University Press of SHSU publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and scholarly works. We are currently open for new book project proposals, please see below for guidelines.  We are interested in literary and scholarly work in both full-length and shorter forms (chapbooks, single essays), as well as hybrid works. 

Poetry Proposals should include a title, cover letter, a short author biography, and the complete manuscript. 

Fiction & General Interest Nonfiction Proposals should include a title, cover letter, table of contents, an estimated word count, a short author biography, and the complete manuscript. 

Scholarly Works Proposals should include a title, cover letter, abstract, 2 sample chapters, an estimated word count, and a short author biography. We are not interested in unrevised dissertations; dissertations should be revised for a general audience and formatted in Chicago Style. If interested, the editors will request the entire manuscript.

    If TRP is interested in pursuing your project, it will move on to the peer-review and editorial processes.

The Sabine Series in Literature highlights work by authors born in or working in Eastern Texas and/or Louisiana. There are no thematic restrictions; TRP seeks the best writing possible by authors from this unique region of the American South. TRP seeks full-length poetry collections of 50-100 pages, or fiction manuscripts of 40,000-80,000 words.

Poetry Manuscripts should be submitted in their entirety, and should be between 50-100 pages in length.

Fiction Manuscripts should include a cover letter, table of contents, a short author biography, and the complete manuscript of 40,000-80,000 words.