Celebrate 50 Years with TTUP
February 1, 2021
Texas Tech University Press is proud to announce the celebration of our 50th anniversary in 2021. When TTU Press was established in 1971, our charge was to become the preeminent… READ MORE
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How Publishing Collaborations Change Us
November 10, 2021
For a small university press, where each staff member is their own department, one of the most important parts of our publishing program is our partners. These collaborators allow us… READ MORE
Señor Sack Now Available
September 27, 2021
In honor of our newest release, TTUP’s Marketing Directing (and bonafide Lubbockite) John Brock reflects on Gabe Rivera’s legacy at Texas Tech. Señor Sack is available now! Growing up in Lubbock,… READ MORE
Talking With New Director Katie Cortese
September 13, 2021
After her first summer on the job, we spent some time talking with our new faculty director Katie Cortese about small-press publishing, being a university press author, and charting a path forward for… READ MORE
Get to Know Winner of Walt McDonald First Book Award Winner: Lubna Safi
August 30, 2021
We have recently announced the latest winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry. In spring 2022, we will publish Lubna Safi’s Your Blue and the Quiet Lament. Our acquisitions editor Travis had a short… READ MORE
The Lou Halsell Rodenberger Book Prize in History, Culture, and Literature
July 6, 2021
The Lou Halsell Rodenberger Prize confers a $1,000 award and publication of the manuscript best illuminating women’s roles in the history, culture, and letters of Texas and the American West, especially in… READ MORE
Survival and Thrive: Why We Started the Iron Horse Prize
June 16, 2021
The Iron Horse Prize (for a first book of collected prose) is officially open for submissions. Please tell all the writers you know to consider sending us a manuscript. To celebrate the opening of… READ MORE
Spotlight on the Peace and Conflict Series
June 7, 2021
Throughout this 50th anniversary year, we’ve been doing a great deal of looking ahead at new and future initiatives. We thought it might be a good time to look back on some of our… READ MORE
Talking with John Erickson about Ranching and Fire
June 2, 2021
Most of you will know him as the author of the Hank the Cowdog book series, but John Erickson is also a rancher and memoirist. His newest book, Bad Smoke, Good Smoke, documents a fire that… READ MORE
Exclusive Excerpt from A Haven in the Sun
May 4, 2021
For the first time in over 100 years, whooping cranes were spotted nesting in Texas. Viewing this hopeful sign that the endangered species might be beginning to replenish itself, many Texas coastal birders have been… READ MORE
Announcing the Inaugural Title in the TTUP/DVAN Partnership
April 26, 2021
The persistent mission of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, now generously supported by Viet Thanh Nguyen’s MacArthur grant, is to celebrate and foster diasporic Vietnamese literary voices. It is to that end that we are… READ MORE