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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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| The annual Hub City Creative Writing Prizes have
been awarded to Amanda Burgess in poetry and Ned Barrett in essay. The Hub City
Writers Project awards both Spartanburg
writers full scholarships to the week-long Wildacres Writing Workshop in Little
Switzerland, N.C. this summer.
The annual contest is sponsored for the tenth
year by the Hub City Writers Project and is open to Spartanburg County
adults.
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Judging is underway for the inaugural South Carolina First Novel Prize, which received more than 100 entries. The winner and runners-up will be posted on this page sometime prior to June 27, 2008. Distinguished South Carolina-born
novelist Percival Everett is judging the contest, which is sponsored by the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Hub City Writers
Project.
Everett,
author of more than a dozen novels, now lives in Los
Angeles, where he is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. A native of Columbia, Everett has won
numerous national writing prizes, including the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and
the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters.
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| COLUMBIA, S.C. – In honor of the 40th Anniversary of the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Commission and its literary partners are pleased to announce a call for submissions for the inaugural South Carolina First Novel Competition. The application deadline is January 2, 2008; the award winner will be announced in May 2008.
Partnering with the SC Arts Commission and the Hub City Writers Project for the First Novel Competition are the South Carolina State Library and the Humanities Council SC. The contest will be judged by a nationally recognized writer.
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| The annual Hub City Creative Writing Prizes have
been awarded to Aly Goodwin in poetry and Mary Ann C. Stoddard in essay. Both
of these Spartanburg
writers will receive full scholarships to the week-long Wildacres Writing
Workshop in Little Switzerland, N.C. this summer.
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