The Hub City Writers Project will award the Hub City Prizes again in March 2008 for excellence in creative writing among Spartanburg County adults. Prizes will be awarded for poetry and personal essay. The deadline for entry is Feb. 1, 2008. 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-place winners receive a full scholarship to Hub City’s “Writing in Place” workshop Aug. 1-3, 2008 at Wofford College.

The contest is open to all Spartanburg County residents 18 years or older. Entrants may submit manuscripts in both genres. In the poetry category, they should submit three poems. In personal essay, they should submit one first-person piece of no more than 10 pages, double-spaced. Previous winners may not submit in the year following their award.

Each entry must be typed with letter-quality printing in a standard 12-point typeface. Each writer should include a title page with his or her name, social security number (or other identifying number) and address. The author’s name should not appear anywhere else on the manuscript. Entries should be mailed to the Hub City Writers Project, PO Box 8421, Spartanburg, S.C. 29305.

Winners will be notified by April 1, 2008. Entrants should include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for notification. No manuscripts will be returned.

For more information, call 577-9349.