The Hub City Publications Committee, comprised of five members of our board of directors, reviews manuscript submissions twice a year, in April and October. They are looking for books that are either literary in nature (fiction, poetry, memoir) or serve to educate people about the place they live. They are also looking for books that will find a broad audience.

The submission process is detailed on our website at  http://www.hubcity.org  If you do not have access to the Internet, please call us at 577-9349, and we will send it to you.

Looking ahead, this committee has selected two book proposals for publication in 2007.

Poet and fiction writer Deno Trakas of Spartanburg is at work on a family memoir that will serve to tell the broader story of the Greek experience in the Upstate. With the help of a grant from the Arts Partnership, Deno, the son of the first Greek immigrant to Spartanburg, traveled to Greece this summer to do research for his as-yet-untitled book.

Hub City's lead title for 2007 will revisit the Willis Collection of historic Spartanburg photographs. Photographers Carroll Foster and Mark Olencki are reshooting many of the iconic images made by the father and son team of Alfred and Bob Willis during the years 1915-1960. The old and new photographs will be presented side by side in this large format book, which will be partially funded by the Spartanburg County Public Libraries.