2011 Hub City Prize winners announced
The 13th annual Hub City Creative Writing Prizes have been awarded! The contest was open to adults in Spartanburg County.
FICTION: Brock Adams, winner; Zoë Miller, 2nd place; Amber Wood, 3rd place
NONFICTION: Amber Wood, winner; Jill Adams, 2nd place; Emily Neely, 3rd place
First place winners of these contests receive a scholarship to the week-long Wildacres Writers Workshop in Little Switzerland, N.C. in July. Second and third place winners receive full or partial scholarships to Hub City’s Writing in Place conference July 15-17.
The judge in the fiction contest was Christopher Bundy, who teaches English and creative writing at the Savannah College of Art & Design in Atlanta, and short story writer Scott Gould, teacher of creative writing at the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities in Greenville, judged the nonfiction contest.
Winners
Brock Adams
WINNER, FICTION, "DRAGON TORTOISE": Brock Adams teaches English at the University of South Carolina Upstate. His first book, Gulf, a collection of short stories, was published by Pocol Press in April 2010, and his short story "Audacious" will appear in Best American Mystery Stories 2011.
Amber Wood
WINNER, NONFICTION, "CATHEDRAL TUNES": Amber Wood is a senior in English and Secondary Education at Converse College. A single mother of one, she is working on a book-length creative nonfiction account of her experiences living in a girl’s home called Hopevale for two years as an adolescent.
Zoë Miller
2ND PLACE, FICTION, "MOTH": Zoe Miller is a graduate in creative writing from The New School University in New York City and a writing teacher for the Boys & Girls Club in Spartanburg.
Jill Adams
2ND PLACE, NONFICTION, "PAPA FEET": Jill Adams earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida in 2008 and teaches English at the University of South Carolina Upstate.
Contest Winners Reading
Hubbard, Norris & others
Wednesday 05/29/2013
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Hub City Bookshop
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.
