Hub City and Converse College invite you to a special evening of literature and goat cheese tasting Wednesday, Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Showroom at Hub-Bub as we celebrate The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese, a new book by New Yorker-turned-dairy farmer Margaret Hathaway, who will be here to read and sign. This is a free event and features the products of Split Creek Farm of Anderson, SC.

The father-son photography team of Alfred T. and Robert H. "Bob" Willis documented over eighty years of Spartanburg history. Now in a new Hub City book called Spartanburg Revisited, two contemporary photographers, Carroll Foster and Mark Olencki, return to places and people from an earlier era and recapture these iconic scenes in full color. We invite you to a book release program and celebration at the Spartanburg Public Library's Barrett Room, Sunday Nov. 18, from 2-4 pm. The event will also feature the "world premiere" of a 1920s era video shot by Alfred Willis (pictured) in Spartanburg. 

Please join us for a reading and book signing by the multi-talented Keith Flynn of Asheville on Monday, Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Showroom at Hub-Bub, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave. Keith, editor of the Asheville Poetry Review, is also the author of four collections of poetry and has won several prizes for his work. Keith’s four collections of poetry include: The Talking Drum (1991), The Book of Monsters (1994), The Lost Sea (2000), and The Golden Ratio (Iris Press, 2007), and a collection of essays, entitled The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory: How To Make Your Poetry Swing (Writer's Digest Books, 2007).

Judging is underway for the inaugural South Carolina First Novel Prize, which received more than 100 entries. The winner and runners-up will be posted on this page sometime prior to June 27, 2008. Distinguished South Carolina-born novelist Percival Everett is judging the contest, which is sponsored by the South Carolina Arts Commission and the Hub City Writers Project.  Everett, author of more than a dozen novels, now lives in Los Angeles, where he is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. A native of Columbia, Everett has won numerous national writing prizes, including the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Applications will be accepted through Feb. 15, 2008 for the 11-month "Live Free and Create" creative writing residency in Spartanburg SC. This residency, which begins in June 2008, is open to one creative writer aged 20 to 30 as part of the HUB-BUB.COM Artists-in-Residence program. The creative writer who is selected will join three visual artists, all of whom receive a spacious apartment above our offices for eleven months to focus on their work and perform community service. The writer serves as an apprentice in the publishing and programming operations of the Hub City Writers Project.