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The South
Carolina Arts Commission and its literary partners announce a call for
submissions for the biennial South Carolina First Novel Competition. The
application deadline is Jan. 5, 2010; a winner will be announced in May. The contest will be judged by Bret Lott. Lott is
the author of 12 books, most recently Ancient Highway (Random
House, 2008). He is a former editor of the Southern Review and teaches
creative writing at the College
of Charleston.
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The 11th annual Hub City Creative
Writing Prizes have been awarded to Kerry Ferguson in poetry and Kam Neely in
fiction. Josette Davison received the new Scott Lax Prize, which given to emerging
writers over the age of 50. There were 41 submissions in the contest this year,
which is open to adults in Spartanburg County.
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The Hub City Writers Project will award the Hub City Prizes again in March 2010 for excellence in creative writing among Spartanburg County adults. Prizes will be awarded for poetry and fiction. Entries must be emailed or postmarked by Feb. 15. Winners each will receive a full, $500 scholarship to the Wildacres Writers Workshop, a week-long creative writing summer school in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Second- and third-place winners receive full or partial scholarships to Hub City’s “Writing in Place” summer workshop at Wofford College.
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The Hub City Writers Project is seeking
submissions of unpublished short stories from authors who were born in Spartanburg County
or are currently living in Spartanburg
County. Selected
manuscripts will appear in a forthcoming book called The Essential Fiction of Spartanburg,
edited by C. Michael Curtis, which will be in print in April 2009. Deadline is Sept. 15.
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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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