The Hub City Writers Project has been named Distinguished Citizen of the Year by the Wofford College National Alumni Association. This is the first time the award has gone to an institution, rather than to an individual.

Hub City books are used in classrooms at Wofford and are sold at Ben Wofford Books. Over the years, Hub City has published several Wofford faculty and staff members. In late November, Hub City will publish the book, Wofford: Shining with Untarnished Honor, 1854-2004.

Hub City representatives will receive the award Oct. 8 during Wofford's Homecoming at a ceremony in the Papadapolous Building.

Also receiving honors from Wofford is journalist and Hub City writer James Scott, who has been named Young Alumnus of the Year. James, whose essay, "Junctures," appeared in Hub City Anthology 2, is a staff writer for the Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier. Holocene Publishing recently published the journal he kept of his experiences as an undergraduate studying in Spain, titled "The Other Side of Home." In 2003 James was honored as the South Carolina Press Association Journalist of the Year.