News from the Hub City Writers Project

Hub City Press announces new Fiction Editor

January 11th 2021

Hub City Press announces the second of two editor positions made possible by a South Arts/Mellon Foundation grant.

Hub City Press to publish Ashleigh Bell Pedersen's debut novel THE CROCODILE BRIDE

December 29th 2020

Hub City Press is proud to announce it will publish Ashleigh Bell Pedersen’s debut novel The Crocodile Bride. Set in swampy Louisiana in the summer of 1982, The Crocodile Bride follows eleven-year-old Sunshine Turner and her troubled father Billy, as the secrets of their family’s past swirl around their yellow house in the little town of Fingertip.

Andrew Siegrist is the winner of the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize

December 8th 2020

Andrew Siegrist of Nashville, Tennessee will receive $10,000 and publication by Hub City Press for his short story collection, All the Colors of Rain

Announcing the 2020 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize

November 30th 2020

The finalists for this year's 2020 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize are Amber Wheeler Bacon for her collection We Were Vessels, Scott Gloden for The Birds of Basra, Bill Glose for All the Ruined Men, Andrew Siegrist for All the Colors of the Rain, and Kirk Wilson for Smash and Grab: Love Stories.

A holiday message from the Hub City staff

November 27th 2020

It’s safe to say that the holiday season will look a bit different this year. Downtown Spartanburg is no exception. As cold weather draws us inside and coronavirus cases continue to rise above even our summer numbers, our regular routines and holiday traditions are suddenly risky not only to us, but those around us, whether they are friends and family or stranger

Hub City Press announces new nonfiction editor

November 23rd 2020

Hub City Press announces first of two editor positions

Gabrielle Calvocoressi to judge 2021 New Southern Voices Prize

October 9th 2020

Hub City Press is pleased to announce the judge for the biennial New Southern Voices Book Prize. The contest will award $1,000 and publication to the winner and be judged by poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Submissions open on January 1, 2021.

Hub City Press to Receive $30,000 South Arts Resilience Fund Grant

October 8th 2020

Hub City Press has been approved for a $30,000 South Arts Resilience Fund Grant to facilitate and build a new system of manuscript acquisition, editing, and proofreading. With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the South Arts Resilience fund is supporting new, region-specific activities to build the long-term resiliency of arts organizations battling the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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