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Our publications committee looks for literary or nonfiction books with a strong sense of place. We review manuscript proposals in March and September and have a particular interest in books from Upstate South Carolina.

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More than 300 people each year make a contribution to support the Hub City Writers Project. These donations are tax deductible. With a contribution of $100 or more, we send you the year’s lead title in hardback and list you in the front of the book as a sponsor. Please consider supporting Hub City this year.

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Tommy Hays

Tommy Hays

Jeremy Jones interviews Tommy Hays, keynote speaker for the 2008 Writing in Place conference

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Welcome to hubcity.org

The Hub City Writers Project of Spartanburg, South Carolina, is focused on the literature of place. A non-profit independent press and literary arts organization, Hub City publishes place-based books and sponsors readings, writing seminars and contests.

Poet Susan Meyers to read here April 14

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.

Keep and Give
Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily, and other literary journals. Recent prizes include first place in the Yemassee and South Carolina Review poetry contests.