Submissions
TRP does not accept unsolicited submissions via mail or email. We only consider manuscripts submitted through Submittable to our Open Reading Period, Contests, and Series.
Current TRP authors and Sam Houston State University faculty may submit works for consideration outside of our open calls.
SHSU Faculty Submission Portal
Calls for Submissions
January – March
- The Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize
- The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize
- The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series (December – March)
April
July – September
October – December
December – March
The Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize
$1,000 + Publication
2025 Judge: KB Brookins
Submissions open each year on January 1 and close on March 31.
Recent judges include Carolyn Hembree, Alison Pelegrin, Taylor Johnson, Benjamin Garcia, Esther Lin, and Gary Jackson.
Winner of the 2024 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize:
6 Lineage Poems, by Fernando Trujillo
Selected by Carolyn Hembree
The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize
$1,000 + Publication
2025 Judge: TBD
Submissions open each year on January 1 and close on March 31.
Recent judges include Steven Dunn, Michael Martone, Renee Gladman, Leslie Jill Patterson, Hannah Pittard, and Rita Bullwinkel.
Winner of the 2024 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize:
On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD, by Francisco Delgado
Selected by Steven Dunn
The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series
Series Editor: J. Bruce Fuller
The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series highlights a first full-length collection by emerging authors from each state in the southern U.S.
Submissions open each year on December 1 and close on March 1. Submissions for Virginia opened December 1, 2024.
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The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize
$10,000 + Publication + Residency at Vermont Studio Center
2024 Judge: Diane Seuss
Submissions open each year on July 1 and close on September 30.
Recent judges include Richard Blanco, Kimiko Hahn, Kazim Ali, Maggie Smith, and Marilyn Nelson.
Winner of the 2024 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize:
Fenestration, by Othuke Umukoro
Selected by Diane Seuss
The George Garrett Fiction Prize
Winner Receives: $2,000 + Publication
Judge's Selection Receives: $1,000 + Publication
2024 Judge: Kaveh Akbar
Thanks to generous support from the judge, Kaveh Akbar, this year's George Garrett Fiction Prize Judge's Selection will also receive a $1,000 advance and publication.
Submissions open each year on July 1 and close on September 30.
Recent judges include Manuel Muñoz, Vi Khi Nao, Selah Saterstrom, Joe Wilkins, and John McNally.
Winner of the 2024 George Garrett Fiction Prize:
About, Above, Around: 50 Prepositions, by Mark Mayer
Selected by Kaveh Akbar
Open Reading Period
Submissions open each year on April 1 and close on April 30.
Submissions cap at 300.
The Sabine Series in Literature
Series Editor: J. Bruce Fuller
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.
Submissions open each year on April 1 and close on April 30. Submissions cap at 300.
The Southern Poetry Anthology
Series Editor: William Wright
The Southern Poetry Anthology highlights poetry by authors from each state in the southern U.S.
VersoFrontera
Series Editor: Octavio Quintanilla
In collaboration with the VersoFrontera Literature and Arts Festival, the VersoFrontera series seeks to publish one debut full-length collection per year by an emerging poet.
Submissions open each year on October 15 and close on December 15.