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Hub City is a regional press that publishes books of literature and culture, with a  special emphasis on works with a strong sense of place. Our publications committee reviews manuscript proposals in March and September.

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The Hub City Writers Project of Spartanburg, South Carolina, is focused on the literature of place. A non-profit independent press and literary arts organization, Hub City publishes place-based books and sponsors readings, writing seminars and contests.

McCorkle, Everitt headline 2009 Writing in Place: Register here
WritingPlace2009

Novelist Jill McCorkle, our keynote speaker, heads a stellar list of faculty members for the Hub City's 2009 Writing in Place conference, which will be held July 31-Aug. 2 at Wofford College. Registration is officially open. This year's event also features a Sunday morning keynote session with agent Charles Everitt of Boston, former CEO of Globe Pequot Press. This conference sells out every year, so register early to ensure your place.

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Introducing our new writer in residence

The Hub City Writers Project is pleased to announce that Jameelah Lang of Lawrence, Kansas, has been named 2009-2010 writer-in-residence and will join three other visual artists in Spartanburg in June as part of the HUB-BUB Artist-in-Residence program. Jameelah, 23, is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Kansas and will complete her thesis in Spartanburg so that she can graduate and get her degree in 2010.

Jameelah Lang
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Through the Pale Door is an Indie Finalist
Through the Pale Door Cover

Due for release June 25, Hub City’s Through the Pale Door by Brian Ray has been named a finalist in the First Novel category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The Indie Book Awards program was established by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group to recognize and honor the best independently published books of the year in sixty categories.

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Newest Publication: Two South Carolina Plays
Hub City is pleased to announce the publication of Two South Carolina Plays by Jon Tuttle, playwright in resident at Trustus Theatre in Columbia, S.C. This volume includes two of his plays-with accompanying essays by eminent local historians-that recall moments in South Carolina's forgotten past.  The White Problem gives voice to Richard Greener, the first African-American professor at the University of South Carolina, and Holy Ghost explores the strange racial and political dynamics in a lowcountry POW camp during World War II.  2SCPlays
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Flyfishing

The Hub City Writers Project is seeking submissions of personal essay/memoir (first-person, descriptive, reflective pieces) for a forthcoming book on the Upstate outdoors to be released in fall 2010.  Works need to reference the Piedmont landscape of South Carolina in some way.  Suggested topics include but are not limited to: birding, biking (mountain/road), climbing, fishing, hiking/camping, horseback riding, hunting,  paddling.

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