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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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Welcome to hubcity.org
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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Writer in Residence
Jameelah Lang, a fiction writer from Lawrence, Kansas, will be our 2009-2010 writer in residence. Stay tuned to read her blog.
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