Please join us for a poetry reading and performance by Asheville's Glenis Redmond on Monday, May 12, at 7:30 pm in the Showroom at Hub-Bub, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Avenue in downtown Spartanburg. Glenis, a native of Greenville, is a past winner of the Southern Fried Slam and a finalist of National Poetry Slam.

Please join us Monday, April 14 as we welcome Summerville poet Susan Meyers for a reading in the Showroom at Hub-Bub at 7:30 p.m. Meyers, president of the Poetry Society of South Carolina, is the author of the poetry book Keep and Give Away, which was  published by the University of South Carolina Press after being selected by Terrance Hayes for the S.C. Poetry Book Prize. It is also the winner of the Brockman-Campbell Book Award and the SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Book Award for Poetry.

Register here for Hub City's 2008 Writing in Place conference, which will be held Aug. 1-3 at Wofford College. We will take up to 72 students this year in this intensive writing conference that appeals to both beginners and professionals. Tommy Hays, author of the novel The Pleasure Was Mine is the keynote speaker. This year we have added a two-day class in screenwriting, in addition to poetry. (Creative nonfiction and fiction are sold out.). Published novelists, poets, essayists, and literary critics lead a series of workshops over three days that include intense instruction, challenging exercises, and an opportunity for feedback.

The Hub City Writers Project hosts readings by debut novelists Janna McMahan and Sarah Colton Monday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Showroom at Hub-Bub in downtown Spartanburg. Janna McMahan of Columbia, S.C., will read from her new book, Calling Home, published by Kensington Press earlier this year. Sarah Colton, a native of North Carolina, will read from Tilt 68.