Fiction Prize Winners Reading
Strother, Coppenbarger, & Neely
Thursday 05/03/20126:00 pm
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The annual Hub City/Emrys Creative Writing Prize in Fiction has been awarded to Bob Strother in fiction. The contest, sponsored by the Hub City Writers Project and the Emrys Foundation, is open to adults in Greenville and Spartanburg counties.
Bob Strother of Greenville has published more than 60 short stories and his collection, Scattered, Smothered, and Covered, was published in 2011 by Main Street Rag Publishing Company. Of his winning story, the judge said, “‘Traveling Mercies’ had me hooked from the first sentence … I thought it a very satisfying story.”
Second place in fiction went to Sonja Coppenbarger of Greenville and the third place winner was Kam Neely of Spartanburg.
Strother, Coppenbarger, and Neely will read at the Hub City Bookshop on Wednesday, May 2 at 6 p.m. This is a free event and the public is invited.
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Contest Winners Reading
Hubbard, Norris & others
Wednesday 05/29/2013
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Hub City Bookshop
Writers’ Night Out
A community of writers
Tuesday 06/04/2013
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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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.
