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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 is a nonprofit organization in Spartanburg, South Carolina, dedicated to cultivating readers
and nurturing writers through its independent small press, community bookstore,
and diverse literary programming.
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| Construction is underway for Hub City Books, "Your Community Bookstore," on the ground floor of the historic Masonic Temple building in downtown Spartanburg. “This landmark bookstore will be on the leading edge of a new business model emerging in the book-selling industry—non-profit bookstores financially supported by communities of book-lovers and civically-engaged residents,” said Betsy Teter, executive director of the Hub City Writers Project.
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Award-winning writer Elizabeth Berg, our keynote speaker, heads a stellar list of
faculty members for the Hub City Writers Project's Tenth Annual Writing in Place conference,
which will be held July 30-August 1, 2010 at Wofford College in Spartanburg. Registration is
officially open. This year's event also features a Sunday morning
panel session with representatives of small presses and literary magazines on the topic of "how to get published."
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| The Hub City Press Publications Board will review book proposals again in April 2010. If you would like your work to be considered follow the guidelines here. Hub City publishes well-crafted, high quality works by new and
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 Our highly popular Masters Craft Series classes return with five new workshops from top-notch instructors. These classes, which run
monthly through May, will allow creative writers to have two hours of classroom
time with master teachers from all over the United States. The workshops begin in January and will meet on
Mondays from 7-9 p.m. in the Showroom at HUB-BUB in downtown Spartanburg.
Registration is limited to 20 students. Our lineup of instructors includes Peter Meinke, Scott Gould, Erin McGraw, Susan Meyers, and Joni Tevis.
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The Hub City Writers Project will award the Hub City Prizes again in March 2010 for excellence in creative writing among Spartanburg County adults. Prizes will be awarded for poetry and fiction. Entries must be emailed or postmarked by Feb. 15. Winners each will receive a full, $500 scholarship to the Wildacres Writers Workshop, a week-long creative writing summer school in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Second- and third-place winners receive full or partial scholarships to Hub City’s “Writing in Place” summer workshop at Wofford College.
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This Week's Best Seller
Writer in Residence
Jameelah Lang, a fiction writer from Lawrence, Kansas, is our 2009-2010 writer in residence. Click on her photograph to read her blog.
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| Our sister program, Hub-Bub, has a website of its own. Here you can check up on what’s
happening at The Showroom, learn about the Artists in Residence Program
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