Hub City Press Receives Grant from the Literary Arts Fund

Hub City Press, the nationally recognized independent nonprofit publisher based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, today announced it has been selected as a recipient of a grant from the Literary Arts Fund, a newly established philanthropic initiative dedicated to strengthening literary culture and independent publishing across the United States.

The award is one of the Literary Arts Fund's inaugural grants and recognizes Hub City Press's decades-long commitment to community-grounded publishing and advocacy on behalf of writers from the American South.

"We are deeply honored to be among the first organizations to receive support from the Literary Arts Fund," said Meg Reid, Publisher of Hub City Press. "This recognition affirms the fundamental role that independent publishers play in shaping a more diverse and dynamic arts landscape—especially in our underserved region. Their support is wonderful recognition of our efforts and, vitally, will offset some operating costs in the next few years. Funding like this will allow us to take bolder risks on the books and writers we believe in most."

The Literary Arts Fund is an unprecedented effort to dramatically increase support for and the visibility of the nonprofit literary arts field for the next five years, concluding in 2031, toward ensuring a healthy and more robust U.S. literary culture in support of creative writers. The fund, initiated in 2023 by the Mellon Foundation as a collaborative effort with the Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Poetry Foundation, and an anonymous foundation in service of the literary arts field’s needs and promise, plans to provide at least $50 million in support of the field and continue fundraising.