News from the Hub City Writers Project

Catherine Lacey will judge the 2026 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize

March 4th 2025

Hub City Press announces Catherine Lacey will judge the 2026 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize.

Hub City Press to publish Joe Bond's debut novel HOPE HOUSE

January 23rd 2025

Hub City Press is proud to announce it will publish Joe Bond's debut novel HOPE HOUSE in spring 2026.

Hub City Press to Receive $25,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

January 14th 2025

Hub City Press is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $25,000.

Derrick Austin will judge tenth New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize

December 4th 2024

Hub City Press is pleased to announce that Derrick Austin will judge the tenth biennial New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize. The contest will award $1,500 and publication to the winner. Submissions open on January 1, 2025.

Hub City Press to publish Kwoya Fagin Maples’s book of poems, LONG EYE

November 13th 2024

Hub City Press is pleased to announce that it will publish Poet and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist and author of Mend Kwoya Fagin Maples's poetry book, Long Eye, in the spring of 2026.

Hub City Press Announces 40th Anniversary Reprint of Nancy Lemann's THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU for 2026

October 9th 2024

Originally championed Gordon Lish at Knopf, this atmospheric account of the New Orleans trial of the Governor of Louisiana for racketeering, fraud, and bribery, Lemann’s sole book of nonfiction, has attained lost classic status in the decades it has languished out of print.

Hub City Press Announces 2024 BIPOC Poetry Series Winners

August 15th 2024

Hub City Press is pleased to announce the inaugural winners of the 2024 BIPOC Poetry Series, Cloud Delfina Cardona for their manuscript the past is a jean jacket and Lolita Stewart-White for her manuscript black frag/ments.

2024 Hub City BIPOC Poetry Series Finalists

July 31st 2024

Hub City Press is pleased to announce the six finalists for the 2024 Hub City BIPOC Poetry Series.

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