Two more IPPY Awards for Hub City Press
Helen Correll's Middlewood Journal and Hub City's anthology Literary Dogs & Their South Carolina Writers have won silver medals in the 2013 IPPY Awards.
Hub City Youth Writing Camps
Hub City will offer 2 weeks of writing camp this summer: June 24-28 (ages 11-14) & July 29-Aug. 2 (ages 14-17). Students will explore fiction, poetry, memoir, and other exciting forms.
Zach Mueller is first Writers House resident
The Hub City Writers Project has selected poet Zach Mueller of Columbia, S.C. as the first summer resident of The Writers House, its new residency program in downtown Spartanburg.
Dorothea Frank, Mary Alice Monroe here in June
In June we welcome Dorothea Benton Frank (The Last Original Wife) and Mary Alice Monroe (The Summer Girls) back to Spartanburg for events to celebrate their new books. Get tickets early!
Hubbard and Norris win annual writing contest
Alex Hubbard of Spartanburg (poetry) and Valerie Norris of Greenville (fiction) are the 2013 winners of the Hub City/Emrys Creative Writing Prizes.
Helen Correll
Kids' Nature Journaling Workshop
Saturday 05/18/2013
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Hatcher Garden | Map
Among the writers who have visited our community for readings or workshops in the past two years are: Jonathan Tropper, Richard Russo, Wiley Cash, Thomas Kennedy, Tea Obreht, Davy Rothbart, Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, Tayari Jones, Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, Neil Gaiman, Lee Smith, Robert Olmstead, Albert Goldbarth, and R.T, Smith, among many others. The creative writing faculties at Spartanburg's colleges include many writers who have published books, including poets Rick Mulkey, Deno Trakas and John Lane, fiction writers Elizabeth Cox, Susan Tekulve, Sam Howie, Brock Adams, and Thomas McConnell. The Atlantic magazine's venerable fiction editor C. Michael Curtis teaches at Wofford College and sits on our editorial committee. A low-residency MFA in creative writing is offered at Converse College.
