While the Beatty family is deeply connected to the Southside of Spartanburg, the family originally came from Union County and settled in Gas Bottom, the springboard of several soul-gospel pioneers.
Originally named the Piedmont Broom Factory, this is the original Muckenfuss plant as it appeared in January 1900. It made 750 brooms a day at this time.
Wynona Douglas attended her first day of class at Spartanburg High, August 1964.
Arthur Chester Platt (1892-1944) was the first Black lawyer in the piedmont of South Carolina.
The cabin was the 19th century childhood home of noted Spartanburg educator Mary H. Wright.
Reyes Ramirez (he/him) is a Houstonian, writer, educator, curator, and organizer of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. He is the author of short story collection The Book of Wanderers (2022) with University of Arizona's Camino del Sol series. Reyes won the 2019 YES Contemporary Art Writer’s Grant, 2017 Blue Mesa Review Nonfiction Contest, 2014 riverSedge Poetry Prize and has poems, stories, essays, and reviews in: Indiana Review, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, Cosmonauts Avenue, december magazine, Arteinformado, Texas Review, Houston Noir, Gulf Coast Journal, The Acentos Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. He is a 2020 CantoMundo Fellow, 2021 Interchange Artist Grant Fellow, 2022 Crosstown Arts Writer in Residence, and has been awarded grants from the Houston Arts Alliance, Poets & Writers, and The Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund. Read more of his work at reyesvramirez.com.
How C. Michael Curtis made an indelible mark on the history and trajectory of Hub City Press.
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Meet Scott Gloden, author of the short story collection The Great American Everything, which comes out from Hub City Press in spring 2023. His collection was selected by Kevin Wilson for the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, who praised it as “an exceptional collection that introduces us to an exciting new voice.” We chatted about Scott's inspiration, what he's reading, and more.
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