The board of the Hub City Writers Project February 26, 2006 on the eighth floor of the Montgomery Building. They received reports on upcoming books, revisited the mission statement and bylaw issues, discussed what to do with its archives and got an update on the new building, among other topics.

The board and staff of the Hub City Writers Project met for an annual retreat and strategy session at the Teter Lane home January 30, 2006. The group began discussion about how to fold the Hub-Bub program into the mission statement, the possibility of a Piedmont Blues concert and term issues.

Three emerging visual artists and one creative writer will "live free and create" in a 1920s-era Cadillac store currently under renovation in downtown Spartanburg as part of the new HUB-BUB Artists-in-Residence Program. Applications from creative people aged 20 to 30 are being accepted through Feb. 1, 2006, for this innovative, 11-month program.

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 Hub City Writers Project has been named Distinguished Citizen of the Year by the Wofford College National Alumni Association. This is the first time the award has gone to an institution, rather than to an individual.