About New Texas

New Texas: A Journal of Literature and Culture is published by the Department of Languages and Literature at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, the state university of the Big Bend region. The journal appeared continuously online at newtexassulross.org and once a year, each spring, as a printed soft-cover issue of selected work. Its editor was Dr. Francine K. Richter, and submissions were read by a peer-review board drawn from the department and the college.

The journal's stated interest was in writing that questions and reimagines Texas, in all its forms: short fiction and novel excerpts, poetry, critical essays and creative nonfiction, photography, and multimedia work published online only. Submissions were accepted year-round, usually between 1,000 and 5,000 words, and each piece ran with a short overview and an author biography.

Between the 2018 and 2020 issues, with a few pieces tagged for 2021, the site carried several dozen works of fiction, a larger number of poems, a strand of critical essays, personal essays and photography. Contributors ranged from established Texas writers such as Clay Reynolds and Rudy Ruiz to scholars writing on African and American literature, and to poets and story writers from the Big Bend itself. Settings run from the Rio Grande Valley and the border crossings at Brownsville to Marathon, Alpine and the abandoned mining town of La Linda across the river.

The original site went offline after 2020. This version has been rebuilt from its web archive so that the journal's contents remain findable. Each piece has a page recording its title, author, genre and issue, with a short editorial description and a link to the archived original. The works themselves remain the property of their authors and are not reproduced here; the archived copies are linked from every page.