July 18, 2023
In 1903, thirteen Black men, encouraged by the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, set out and formed the Blackdom Townsite Company. Their goal was to bring to fruition an idea… READ MORE
March 6, 2023
Congratulations to Kate Neville, Texas Tech University Press’s 2023 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize winner! Neville’s debut, Going to Seed, explores questions of idleness, considering the labor both of humans and of… READ MORE
February 21, 2023
Texas Tech University Press is thrilled to announce the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry 2023 winner, RK Fauth! RK Fauth’s unique and inspiring work, A Dream in Which I… READ MORE
February 15, 2023
We are pleased to announce the release of Sing With Me at the Edge of Paradise by Joe Baumann! Order this remarkable work from Texas Tech University Press or request… READ MORE
February 7, 2023
Congratulations to TTU Press’s 2023 Iron Horse Prize winner, Jefferey Spivey! Spivey was selected for his new work, The Birthright of Sons, a collection of stories centered around the experiences… READ MORE
December 16, 2022
You can order The Lyme Letters book here! You can get the Audiobook at these major sources: Google Play Libro.fm (if you must) Audible
October 24, 2022
You can order The Lyme Letters book here! You can get the Audiobook at these major sources: Google Play Libro.fm (if you must) Audible
April 1, 2022
With the Iron Horse Prize submission window coming up on the horizon, we sat down to talk with the first winner, Joe Baumann. You can read more about the prize… READ MORE
January 27, 2022
Texas Tech University Press is saddened to hear of the passing of Mike Cochran. During a nearly 40-year run with the Associated Press, Cochran told the stories of Texas’s larger-than-life… READ MORE
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
