Hub City Spring 2012 Writing Workshops
The spring season of workshops hosted by the Hub City Writers Project will include something for everyone! The workshops are held on Monday nights, from 7-9 p.m., in The Showroom at HUB-BUB, which is located at 149 South Daniel Morgan Avenue. Please arrive at least 5 minutes before starting time and bring a pad and pen (or laptop). Workshops are $25, or $20 for members. To find out if your membership is current, please email us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
In conjunction with the Spartanburg Writing Project, recertification credits are available to certified k-12 teachers. If you are a teacher and need information about how to qualify, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Hub City presents one final workshop for Spring 2012:
Workshop: Writing for Newspapers and Magazines
Will Rothschild
May 7, 7-9pm at The Showroom
Newspaper and magazine writing is no different than other forms of writing. The best at the craft invariably are great storytellers. Award-winning journalist Will Rothschild will discuss ways to focus your reporting and use narrative writing techniques to produce stories for newspapers and magazines that value the craft of writing -- and how it can be done on even the tightest of deadlines. This class is not just for journalists -- if you've never written for newspapers or magazines before, this class is a chance to learn how to use your storytelling ability to identify and produce journalistic pieces that editors and readers crave.
Our Instructors
Will Rothschild
Will Rothschild is the Communications Manager for the City of Spartanburg. Previously, he worked for four different newspapers, including the Citizen-Times in Asheville, the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg, and the Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, Fla., as both a reporter and editor. At the Herald-Journal, his reporting and editing work was honored six times by the S.C. Press Association, including a 2004 report on illegal immigration that earned a "Best of the Best" award for enterprise reporting.
Among the writers who have visited our community for readings or workshops in the past three years are: Jonathan Tropper, Richard Russo, Claudia Emerson,Tea Obreht, Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, David Huddle, Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, Arthur Golden, Dan Wakefield, Sheri Reynolds, Albert Goldbarth and R.T, Smith, among many others. The creative writing faculties at Spartanburg's colleges include many writers who have published books, including poets Rick Mulkey, Deno Trakas and John Lane, fiction writers Elizabeth Cox, Susan Tekulve, Sam Howie, Brock Adams, Thomas McConnell. The Atlantic magazine's venerable fiction editor C. Michael Curtis teaches at Wofford College and sits on our editorial committee. A low-residency MFA in creative writing is offered at Converse College.
Our sister program, HUB-BUB, has a website of its own. Here you can check up on what’s happening at The Showroom Gallery and Performance Hall and learn about the Artists-in-Residence Program.
