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
December 13, 2021
Deadline: February 28, 2022 DVAN and Texas Tech University Press are pleased to announce that their book series will be open for submissions from early career and emerging poets from… READ MORE
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
