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Texas Review Press has annually offered 4 different literary prizes for over 20 years. Generally these prizes come with a cash prize and a publishing contract with Texas A&M University Press.

History and Eligibility
Texas Review Press was founded in 1979 and is housed at Sam Houston State University (which runs an MFA program and Texas Review Magazine). The prizes are being run by Sam Houston State University (SHSU). For this reason, current and former students and faculty of Sam Houston State University are not eligible to compete for this contest. Generally, submissions for these awards must not have been previously published in book form. Despite the affiliation with Texas Review Press and Texas A&M University Press, it is not required that the books or authors have any relationship to Texas.

Texas Review Press and Texas Review Magazine were both founded by Paul Ruffin who was an English professor and author at SHSU. The current director is J. Bruce Fuller.

Two of the prizes are specific to

George Garrett Fiction Prize
This award, named after novelist George Garrett, was established in 1998 and highlights excellence in a short story collection or novel. The 2019 prize comes with a $1000 advance, standard royalty contract and 20 copies of the published book. Starting in 2022, submissions would open on July 1 and close on September 30.

Past Winners Garrett Prize

 * 2020: Jenny Shank – Mixed Company
 * 2019: William Black – In the Valley of the Kings
 * 2018: Susan Lowell – Two Desperados
 * 2017: Jim Kelly – Pitchman’s Blues
 * 2016: James Ulmer – The Fire Doll
 * 2015: Jeff P. Jones – Love Give Us One Death
 * 2014: Kathy Flann – Get A Grip
 * 2013: Stephen March – The Gold Piano
 * 2012: Tim Parrish – The Jumper
 * 2011: Starner Jones – Purple Church
 * 2010: David Armand – The Pugilist’s Wife
 * 2009: Richard Spilman – The Estate Sale
 * 2008: Mary Kuykendall-Weber – River Roots
 * 2007: Jack Smith – Hog To Hog
 * 2006: Meg Moceri – Sky Full of Burdens
 * 2005: Jacqueline Bautista – Fiestas
 * 2004: Gail Mount – Pitching Tents
 * 2004: Mark Brazaitis – An American Affair
 * 2003: Steve Sherwood – Hardwater
 * 2003: John Cottle – The Blessings of Hard-Used Angels
 * 2002: Thomas Cobb – Acts of Contrition
 * 2002: Clay Reynolds – Ars Poetica
 * 2001: Naton Leslie – Marconi’s Dream and Other Stories
 * 2000: Roger Hart – Erratics
 * 1999: Don Meredith – Wing Walking
 * 1998: Peter Leach – Tales of Resistance

Past Winners Clay Reynolds Novella Prize

 * 2021: Deirdre Danklin – Catastrophe
 * 2020: Cecilia Pinto – Imagine the Dog
 * 2019: Dylan Fisher – The Loneliest Band in France
 * 2018: Patrick Stockwell – The Light Here Changes Everything
 * 2017: Chelsea Catherine – Blindsided
 * 2016: Curt Eriksen – A Place of Timeless Harmony
 * 2015: Rusty Dolleman – The Megabucks
 * 2014: Ernest J. Finney – Elevation 6,040
 * 2013: Benjamin Ludwig – Sourdough
 * 2012: Adam Berlin – Both Members of the Club
 * 2011: Bruce Douglas Reeves – Delphine
 * 2010: Tina Egnoski – In the Time of the Feast of Flowers
 * 2009: Daniel Robinson – The Shadow of Violence
 * 2008: William Orem – Across the River
 * 2007: Tara Deal – Palms Are Not Trees After All
 * 2006: Lonnie Busch – Turnback Creek
 * 2005: Seuxanne Freeman – Omnibo
 * 2004: Mark Connelly – Fifteen Minutes
 * 2003: Rebecca Bailey – The Only Road There Is
 * 2002: Stephen March – Armadillo
 * 2001: Charles Wyatt – Falling Stones: The Spirit Autobiography of S.M. Jones

Past Winners X.J. Kennedy

 * 2020: Brooke Sahni – Before I Had the Word
 * 2019: Caroline M. Mar – Special Education
 * 2018: Garret Keizer – The World Pushes Back
 * 2017: Jay Udall – Because a Fire in Our Heads
 * 2016: Jeff Hardin – No Other Kind of World
 * 2015: Gwen Hart – The Empress of Kisses
 * 2014: Corinna McClanahan Schroeder – Inked
 * 2013: Ashley Mace Havird – The Garden of the Fugitives
 * 2012: Jeff Worley – A Little Luck
 * 2011: James McKean – We Are the Bus
 * 2010: George Drew – The View from Jackass Hill
 * 2009: Joshua Cohen – Maker of Shadows
 * 2008: Ashley Renee – Basic Heart
 * 2007: William Baer – “Bocage” and Other Sonnets
 * 2006: Becky Gould Gibson – Aphrodite’s Daughter
 * 2005: Deborah Bogen – Landscape with Silos
 * 2004: Lee Rudolph – A Woman and a Man, Ice-Fishing
 * 2003: Eric Nelson – Terrestrials
 * 2002: Jan Lee Ande – Reliquary
 * 2001: Jorn Ake – Asleep in the Lightning Fields
 * 2000: Barbara Lau – The Long Surprise
 * 1999: Philip Heldrich – Good Friday
 * 1998: Gray Jacobik – The Surface of Last Scattering

Past Winners Phillips

 * 2021: Marisa Tirado – Selena Didn't Know Spanish Either
 * 2020: Elizabeth Murawski – Still Life with Timex
 * 2019: Thomas Nguyen – Permutations of a Self
 * 2018: Gregory Byrd – The Name for the God Who Speaks
 * 2017: Evana Bodiker – Ephemera
 * 2016: Mark Schneider – How Many Faces Do You Have?
 * 2015: Loueva Smith – Consequences of a Moonless Night
 * 2014: J. Scott Brownlee – Ascension
 * 2013: Harold Whit Williams – Backmasking
 * 2012: David Lanier – Lost and Found
 * 2011: John Popielaski – Isn’t It Romantic?
 * 2010: Ingrid Browning Moody – Learning About Fire
 * 2009: David Havird – Penelope’s Design
 * 2008: Rebecca Foust – Mom’s Canoe
 * 2007: Rebecca Foust – Dark Card
 * 2006: Lisa Hammond – Moving House
 * 2005: Taylor Graham - The Downstairs Dance Floor
 * 2004: Kevin Meaux – Myths of Electricity
 * 2003: Ann Killough – Sinners in the Hands: Selections from the Catalog
 * 2002: Nancy Naomi Carlson – Complications of the Heart
 * 2001: William Notter – More Space Than Anyone Can Stand