Construction is under way on the new offices of the Hub City Writers Project in downtown Spartanburg. Hub City's new home will be located on the second floor of a historic building that opened in 1928 as R.E. Foil Motors, a dealer of Chrysler, Plymouth, Cadillac and LaSalle automobiles. More recently, it was home to the Gilbert Shoe Co. for a quarter century. The building is located at 149 Daniel Morgan Avenue, a block behind the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.

Hub City's newest book, TWENTY: South Carolina Poetry Fellows, is not just another poetry collection. Here, 20 Palmetto State writers who have received the state's highest honor in creative writing present five of their favorite poems and tell readers what these works reveal about their lives as poets.

Hub City and the Spartanburg County Historical Association celebrated the release of When the Soldiers Came to Town at a reception and book signing at the Regional Museum of History, 100 East South Main Street, Sunday, Nov. 21. In addition to getting a book and author signatures, patrons toured the wide-ranging historical exhibit of Camp Wadsworth (1917-1919) and Camp Croft (1941-1945) artifacts.

Hub City has begun a writing project that will encourage people whose lives have been impacted by HIV/AIDS to become creative writers. Thanks to a grant from the Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg, Hub City will provide a writer-in-residence to Piedmont Care Inc., the local nonprofit agency that serves HIV+ people and their families in our community. Kris Neely, a poet, essayist and former English teacher, will work with clients, their families and caregivers to develop creative writing pieces for a Hub City publication called Hidden Voices. Entry topics will be diverse and will not be limited to HIV/AIDS.

Nature poetry by members of the Hub City Writers Project adorns the walls in 34 treatment rooms in the new $55 million Spartanburg Regional Emergency Center.