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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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Thomas Rain Crowe Jeremy Jones talks with Thomas Rain Crowe about how he intertwines spoken word and music when he performs with the Boatrockers. 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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| Well over 500 people followed the searchlight in the sky and turned out for the official launch of Stars Fell on Spartanburg Nov. 12 in the lobby of the Memorial Auditorium. It was our biggest book event since the very first Hub City book, Hub City Anthology, hit the streets in 1997! We had 50 of the Stars Fell authors in attendance, many of them signing
books for the first time in their lives. Pick up a copy of the book on
our website or come by our office.
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Call him Ceiling Fan Man. Call him Sticker-Shock Guy. Or even Ignacio Finkelstein, Roller-Rink King. Lane Filler, columnist for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, is all this and more in a hilarious new Hub City book, Ask Mr. Smartypants. Filler’s book is now available on our website and in area stores. He will do a reading at the Hub City Bookfest on Saturday, Dec. 6 at noon in the Showroom at HUB-BUB. Meanwhile stay in touch with Lane Filler at www.askmrsmartypants.com. “Don’t let the good manners fool you. Once a wiseass, always a wiseass,” says Josh Lieb, co-executive producer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
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The Hub City Writers Project will award the Hub City Prizes again in March 2009 for excellence in creative writing among Spartanburg County adults. Prizes will be awarded for poetry and fiction. The deadline for entry is Feb. 1, 2009. 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” workshop July 31-Aug 2, 2009 at Wofford College.
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 In January 2009 we introduce a new instructional
program: The Masters Craft Series in creative writing. These classes, which run
monthly through June, will allow creative writers to have 90-minutes of classroom
time with master teachers in our region and beyond. The workshops will meet on
Mondays from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Showroom at HUB-BUB in downtown Spartanburg.
Registration is limited to 20 students. Our lineup of instructors includes
Ashley Warlick, Cathy Smith Bowers, Elizabeth Cox, Richard Tillinghast, Melissa
Walker, and Leslie Pietrzyk.
Hurry! Two classes are already sold out!
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If you weren't with us on Sept. 8 you missed a great evening when we kicked off John Lane's Best of the Kudzu Telegraph tour with a packed house for his reading in the Showroom. John will be making many appearances over the next few months, but if you can't catch him in person, you can purchase his new book here. These four dozen short essays, originall published by
Community Journals in upstate South Carolina, will make you look more closely
at the world around you and also, Lane hopes, will make you look ahead: to take
actions, large and small, to protect the place you live.
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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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