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You heard right! We are raising money for a downtown bookstore. Through February 2010, all contributions made at our "Just Give" link will go toward upfit of the Hub City Community Bookstore. Theses gifts are tax-deductible, and you can print out your receipt.
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Submissions
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Hub City is a regional press that publishes books of literature and culture, with a special emphasis on works with a strong sense of place. Our publications committee reviews manuscript proposals in March and
September.
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Welcome to hubcity.org
The Hub City
Writers Project is a nonprofit organization in Spartanburg, South Carolina, dedicated to cultivating readers
and nurturing writers through its independent small press, community bookstore,
and diverse literary programming.
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Through the Pale Door is an Indie Finalist |
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Due for release June 25, Hub City’s Through the Pale Door by Brian Ray has been named a finalist in the First Novel category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The Indie Book Awards program was established by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group to recognize and honor the best independently published books of the year in sixty categories.
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Through the Pale Door is the story of a Sarah West, a young artist who takes a temporary job at her father’s South Carolina steel mill the summer before college, seeking release from the chaos of her often institutionalized mother. There she meets a teenage vigilante muralist who lives in an abandoned jail on the outside of town. Sharing artistic gifts, they hesitate at the door between adolescence and adulthood as they confront danger and death in the mill.
Brian Ray, who is pursuing a PhD in Literature from UNC-Greensboro, is also the winner of the inaugural South Carolina First Novel Competition, hosted by the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Humanities Council SC and the State Library. The book will be released in hardback this summer and is available for pre-order now.
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This Week's Best Seller
Writer in Residence
Jameelah Lang, a fiction writer from Lawrence, Kansas, is our 2009-2010 writer in residence. Click on her photograph to read her blog.
Visit HUB-BUB
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