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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.