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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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
Spotlight on the Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest Series
April 19, 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
In Honor of Yom HaShoah
April 8, 2021
“In the midst of the deepest despair, I fully realized the meaning of life is life itself.” — Estelle Glaser Laughlin In Honor of Yom HaShoah, we’d like to spotlight… READ MORE
A Timely Reading from Gerrymandering Texas
April 5, 2021
In November 2020, we released Gerrymandering Texas and subsequently posted an interview with the book’s editor, Bob Heath. Those masochists who follow the doings of the Texas legislature know that 2021 is a redistricting year, which means that at some… READ MORE
Texas Tech University Press Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
March 26, 2021
The staff of Texas Tech University Press (TTUP), and the entire Texas Tech community, vigorously condemn anti-Asian racism and all acts of violence and cruelty that arise from it. We… READ MORE