TCU Texas Book Award

2026 TCU Texas Book Award Winner:

Holly M. Karibo Rehab on the Range: A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West

Exhaustively researched... Rehab on the Range intelligently describes one of the nation’s first and largest experiments in federally funded drug treatment, examining it within a century-long context of public and legal attitudes toward addiction. —Texas Observer

About the TCU Texas Book Award

The Friends of the TCU Library and TCU Press are co-sponsors of the 2026 TCU Texas Book Award. An award of $5,000 is given to the author of the best book about Texas. Fiction, nonfiction, art, photography and other books will be considered.
Excluded works: juvenile, young adult, drama or film scripts, and self-published works.

The deadline for entries is Friday, October 3, 2025.

How to Enter

Only one book by any author will be considered.
Books must have been published between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2024, to be eligible for the 2026 award.
The winner will be notified by Friday, December 5, 2025.
Authors, publishers, agents, or any interested party may make submissions.
Each entry must include the entrant's address, phone number, and email.
Send three copies of the book to:
TCU Press
3000 Sandage
Fort Worth, Texas 76109
Clearly mark the package for the "TCU Texas Book Award.”
Books must be postmarked by November 3, 2025, to be eligible
No acknowledgement of entries will be sent and books cannot be returned.
Works published by TCU Press, or by TCU faculty and personnel, are not eligible for this competition.

The Award

The $5,000 and trophy presentation will be made at a dinner hosted by the Friends of the TCU Library at Texas Christian University April 2026 (exact date TBD). The author of the winning title is expected to attend and deliver remarks.

For more information, please contact Dr. Dan Williams, Director of the TCU Press, by phone at 817-257-5907 or email d.e.williams@tcu.edu.