About the Hub City Bookshop
The Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, SC, is a revolutionary independent bookstore. With each book purchased at our store, we and our customers nourish new writers and help launch authors into the literary world. That’s because all proceeds from the sale of books fund creative writing education and independent book publishing in our home community.
Located in the heart of downtown’s Grain District, our store shares the ground floor of the landmark Masonic Temple with Little River Coffee Bar and Cakehead Bakeshop. From its windows you look out on historic Morgan Square, the city clock tower, and the statue of the victorious Revolutionary War General Daniel Morgan. Operated by the non-profit Hub City Writers Project, the Hub City Bookshop specializes in new releases, regional authors, children’s books, literary fiction, history, and, of course, Hub City Press titles. Though we are brand new—our doors opened in June 2010—we have big plans. Our event calendar is quickly filling up with a mixture of national touring authors and homegrown talent. We also have several monthly series, including Writers' Night Out, Scrabble Night, and the Hub City Book Club--all are welcome to all of our community events!
Our staff and volunteer workforce includes published writers as well as local book lovers. In fact, sometimes the person ringing you up at the counter can give you an author signature in the book you just purchased! If you are interested in joining the crew, contact our store manager, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
We carry mostly new books, but we do have an area of select used books. We accept donations of good-condition, contemporary and classic hardbacks and trade paperbacks during store hours, and can provide you a tax deduction in exchange. (For a larger selection of used books, we suggest you visit the Friends of the Library Used Book Store at Cedar Spring Shopping Center, open Mondays 5:30-8 pm).
Look for special displays in the store, from our Staff Picks to Indie Press Titles to Signed Books to our wall of recommendations. And if we don't have the book you need in stock, we're happy to place a special order for you at no additional cost.
When you shop with us, you help send our community’s best young writers to college. You help us publish beautiful and important new books. You participate in bringing a writer-in-residence to our city. You underwrite creative writing workshops. You help create a cultural hot spot. You make our city a literary center of the South.
Bookstores becoming publishers? Publishers becoming bookstores? The Hub City Writers Project is on the cutting edge of this national trend, as described by essayist Steve Almond in a Jan. 2, 2012, article on Salon,com.
There are plenty of 2-hour parking spots around our store. You can find 18 public spaces directly in front of our store along West Main, at least 20 beside/behind Carriage House Wines, and 20 more at the clock tower on Spring Street. The Magnolia Street parking deck is just down the block.
Step into the Grain District when you visit the Hub City Bookshop. Our neighbors in this emerging arts and entertainment area west of Morgan Square include RJ Rockers Brewery, HUB-BUB, Carriage House Wines, Zarza's Eclectic Cuisine, The Warehouse Brickhouse, Cribbs Kitchen, Little River Coffee Bar, and Cakehead Bakeshop.
