TRP SHSU Faculty & Staff Portal

This submission form is open only to faculty and staff of Sam Houston State University (SHSU). Submissions to this form from writers who are not SHSU faculty or staff will not be considered. If you are not an SHSU faculty or staff member, please exit this form and submit to one of our relevant calls for submissions. Open calls for submissions are on our Submittable page, and our full submissions schedule is listed on our website.

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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, and submission of literary manuscripts. Please see below for guidelines.  We are interested in literary and scholarly work in both full-length and shorter forms (chapbooks, chapbook-length essays), as well as hybrid works. 

Scholarly Works Proposals

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.

Manuscript Submissions

Literary Manuscripts should include a title, cover letter, the full manuscript, and a short author biography.

Areas of Interest

We are particularly interested in projects that would fit in one of the following series/areas:

• Huntsville History - General interest series on the history, people, and places around the Huntsville, TX area, including Walker County and the Piney Woods/East Texas areas.
• Gulf Coast Folklore - General interest series on folklore in any of the five Gulf Coast states. 
• Scholarly or general interest works in the following areas: Environmental Studies, Southern/Gulf Coast Studies, Texana.

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 Submitted work must be original and previously unpublished in any form.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.

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