Texas Review Press, a member of the Texas A&M University Press
Consortium, was established in 1979 but published only chapbooks
and an occasional anthology until 1992, when it introduced the
Southern and Southwestern Writers Breakthrough Series.  It now
publishes six to eight books a year and has over forty titles in print.

Texas Review Press attempts to meet the needs of an international 
as well as regional and local audience. We continue to conduct four 
international competitions: the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize
for best poetry chapbook of up to thirty-two pages, the X. J. Kennedy
Poetry Prize for a full-length collection of poems, the George Garrett
Fiction Prize for a short novel or collection of stories, and the newly
named Clay Reynolds Novella Prize for best novella.

Ann Killough won the 2003 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize for
Sinners in the Hands: Selections from the Catalog. The X. J. Kennedy
Prize winner for 2003 was Terrestrials, by Eric Nelson. There was a tie
for the 2003 George Garrett Fiction Prize between The Blessings of
Hard-Used Angels by John Cottle and Hardwater Winner by Steve
Sherwood. The Only Road There Is by Rebecca Bailey was selected
winner of the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize for 2003. All winners were
selected by nationally known American writers through a “blind
submission” process.

Dedicated as always to the state and region, we recently released two
collections of poetry about the Texas landscape: Where Skulls Speak
Wind by Larry Thomas of Houston, Texas, and Brush Country by
Lionel Garcia of Seabrook, Texas.

We are also proud to announce that Cleatus Rattan is our 2004 Texas 
Poet Laureate.