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Thomas Rain Crowe

Thomas Rain Crowe

Jeremy Jones talks with Thomas Rain Crowe about how he intertwines spoken word and music when he performs with the Boatrockers.

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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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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.

Call for Entries in 2009 Hub City Prizes
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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Ask Mr. Smartypants now on sale!
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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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Register here for 2009 creative writing classes
masters_-_smallIn 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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