The George Garrett Prize

Established in 1998, The George Garrett Fiction Prize seeks to highlight one book a year for excellence in a short story collection or novel. Since 2019 the Prize comes with a $1,000 advance, a standard royalty contract, and 20 copies of the published book.

Submissions open each year on October 1 and close on December 31. To submit please visit our online submission manager

https://texasreview.submittable.com/submit/1487/the-george-garrett-fiction-prize

The George Garrett Fiction Prize

2019 Judge:

General Guidelines

Submissions are open October 1 – December 31.
A fee of $28 must be paid at the time of submission.
Open to anyone writing in English. Translations are not eligible.
Stories or excerpts may have been published individually in magazines or anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please notify TRP immediately by withdrawing the manuscript via Submittable if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Current and former students and faculty of Sam Houston State University are not eligible. Family or former students of the final judge are not eligible.
Submissions are accepted through Submittable only.
Winner receives a $1,000 advance, a standard royalty contract, and 20 copies of the published book.
Winner will be announced in March 2020.

Manuscript Guidelines

Manuscripts may be novels or short story collections with a total word count of between 40,000 and 120,000 words.
Please include a table of contents, title page, and page numbers.
Please double-space and use a 12pt. font.
Do not include an acknowledgments page.
Submissions are judged blind. Please remove any identifying information from the manuscript.
Submit as a .pdf, .docx, or .doc file format.
No revisions will be accepted once the manuscript is uploaded.

2019 Judge:

George Garrett (1929-2008), for whom this competition is named, is the author of thirty-two books and editor or co-editor of nineteen others. He earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Princeton University and taught for forty years at the University of Virginia. Among his honors and awards are the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Sewanee Review Fellowship in Poetry, fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He won the T.S. Eliot Award of the Ingersoll Foundation, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Previous Winners:

2018: Susan Lowell – Two Desperados

2017: Jim Kelly – Pitchman’s Blues

https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680031652/pitchmans-blues/

2016: James Ulmer – The Fire Doll

https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680031270/the-fire-doll/

2015: Jeff P. Jones – Love Give Us One Death

https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680030976/love-give-us-one-death/

2014: Kathy Flann – Get A Grip

https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680030518/get-a-grip/

2013: Stephen March – The Gold Piano

https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680030082/the-gold-piano/