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Our publications committee looks for literary or nonfiction books with
a strong sense of place. We review manuscript proposals in March and
September and have a particular interest in books from Upstate South
Carolina.
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More than 300 people each year make a contribution to support the Hub City Writers Project. These donations are tax deductible. With a contribution of $100 or more, we send you the year’s lead title in hardback and list you in the front of the book as a sponsor. Please consider supporting Hub City this year.
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Tommy Hays Jeremy Jones interviews Tommy Hays, keynote speaker for the 2008 Writing in Place conference read more...
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Welcome to hubcity.org
The Hub City Writers Project of Spartanburg, South Carolina, is focused on the literature of place. A non-profit independent press and literary arts organization, Hub City publishes place-based books and sponsors readings, writing seminars and contests.
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Register here for Hub City's 2008
Writing in Place conference, which will be held Aug. 1-3 at Wofford College. We will take up to 72
students this year in this intensive writing conference that appeals to both
beginners and professionals. Tommy Hays, author of the novel The Pleasure Was Mine is the keynote
speaker. This year we have added a two-day class in screenwriting, in addition to poetry. (Creative nonfiction and fiction are sold out.). Published novelists, poets, essayists, and literary critics lead a
series of workshops over three days that include intense instruction,
challenging exercises, and an opportunity for feedback.
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S.C. Arts Commission and its literary partners have named Brian Ray of Columbia, S.C.,
the winner of the inaugural South Carolina First Novel Prize. Ray is receiving
the opportunity to have his novel, Girl
With Her Throat Cut, published by the Hub City Writers Project. "The voice
is confident and engaging," said Percival Everett, distinguished novelist and the final judge of the competition. "I found myself not only wanting to go where the
narrator was taking me, but also wanting merely to hear her speaking."
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| Jack Dempsey. Elvis Presley. Martha Stewart.
George Washington Carver. The Allman Brothers. Julia Roberts. Ty Cobb. Clarence
Carter. Billy Sunday. At one time all of these celebrities - and dozens more - passed
through Spartanburg, S.C. Their visits are captured by sixty creative
writers in a new, illustrated Hub
City book to be released
in November 2007. To sign up for one of the 300 collector's edition hardback
copies of Stars Fell on Spartanburg: Hub City's
Celebrity Encounters ...
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Throughout
the spring and summer of 2008 we are collaborating with the local chapter of
the Alzheimer's Association on a series of creative classes, called the Life
Writing Series, for early-stage Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers. Led
by board member Jeremy Jones, this series offers one-hour classes designed to
acquaint participants with various forms of creative writing and lead them
through journal-writing exercises. The classes are free and open to anyone
affected directly or indirectly by Alzheimer's.
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Visit HUB-BUB
| Our sister program, Hub-Bub, has a website of its own. Here you can check up on what’s
happening at The Showroom, learn about the Artists in Residence Program
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Writer in Residence
Patrick Whitfill, a poet from Lubbock, Texas, is our writer-in-residence.
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