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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 Jeremy Jones interviews Tommy Hays, keynote speaker for the 2008 Writing in Place conference read more...
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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.
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| Jimmy Buffett has his “Coconut Telegraph,” but he’s got nothing on nature writer John Lane, who sends his musings into the world each week in a popular newspaper column named after the ubiquitous green vine that’s swallowing the South. Please join us Monday, Sept. 8 at 7:30 pm for a celebration and a reading as Hub City releases Best of the Kudzu Telegraph. The event, at the Showroom, is free and open to the public.
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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submissions of unpublished short stories from authors who were born in Spartanburg County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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| Hub City's Fall Reading Series is right around the corner! We're mixing it up this year with a little bit of music, a book launch, some history, and some popular fiction. All readings are in the Showroom at Hub-Bub at 7:30 p.m. Details follow.
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A record-setting 72 participants joined us for the 2008 Writing in Place conference Aug. 1-3 on the campus of Wofford College. We have just uploaded photos -- see the top left of this page -- of some of the great activities during the weekend, including a panel discussion, lots of intense classtime, a great keynote banquet at Hub-Bub, and Sunday morning short sessions. Thanks go to an amazing faculty: Tommy Hays, Betsy Cox, Sebastian Matthews, Peter Caster, Rick Mulkey, Jennie Neighbors, Susan Tekulve, Vera Gomez, Patrick Whitfill, John Lane, Rosa Shand, and Lyn Riddle.
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| Jack Dempsey. Elvis Presley. Martha Stewart.
George Washington Carver. The Allman Brothers. Julia Roberts. Ty Cobb. Clarence
Carter. Billy Sunday. At one time all of these celebrities - and dozens more - passed
through Spartanburg, S.C. Their visits are captured by sixty creative
writers in a new, illustrated Hub
City book to be released
in November 2008. To sign up for one of the 300 collector's edition hardback
copies of Stars Fell on Spartanburg: Hub City's
Celebrity Encounters ...
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Visit HUB-BUB
| Our sister program, Hub-Bub, has a website of its own. Here you can check up on what’s
happening at The Showroom, learn about the Artists in Residence Program
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Writer in Residence
Patrick Whitfill, a poet from Lubbock, Texas, is our writer-in-residence.
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