The Winter Intensive Workshop
Hub City Writers Project is thrilled to host our Winter Intensive Workshop on the weekend of January 16-18, 2026 at the Hub City Press Office in downtown Spartanburg.
Our Winter Intensive Workshop instructors are Emma Copley Eisenberg and Martha Park.
The Winter Intensive consists of a weekend of dedicated nonfiction workshops with limited participants (12-14 per class). It is geared toward experienced writers working on a book-length project who will benefit from a dedicated workshop environment. Applicants must be 21+ years old.
Cost of Attendance
Tuition: $900
Includes one lunch, one dinner, and coffee all weekend.
All workshop classes will be held at the Hub City Press Office.
Room and board recommendation available upon request.
How to Apply
Apply for a $15 fee at hubcity.submittable.com.
Projected Workshop Schedule
The Intensive starts at 5 pm on Friday, January 16th, and wraps up at 1 pm on Sunday, January 18th. A short class on Friday night will give time for introductions and icebreakers. Two 3-hour class blocks on Saturday will be time for workshopping the cohort's work. Emma Copley Eisenberg and a second instructor (to be announced) will read at our downtown Bookshop here in Spartanburg on the evening of the 17th, with a reception to follow.
On Sunday morning, the second instructor will offer a craft capsule workshop from 9:30 to 11 am.
From 11 to 12 pm, Hub City Press staff will host a drop-in session on preparing a book for submission to agents and publishers and answer questions about the publishing process.
Please note that acceptance into the workshop does not guarantee you a spot; you must put down a deposit to secure placement. For all cancellations received before December 15, there is a $100 administrative fee. After that date, there will be no refunds.
Workshop Leader
Emma Copley Eisenberg is the nationally bestselling author of the novel Housemates, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, as well as the nonfiction book The Third Rainbow Girl, a New York Times Notable Book and Editor’s Choice and a finalist for an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award. She’s received fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Bread Loaf, Tin House, The Millay Colony and others, and her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in such publications as Granta, The Paris Review, The Believer, Esquire, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Republic, Harpers Bazaar, and The Cut. She lives in Philadelphia, where she co-founded Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts. Her next book of fiction, Fat Swim, will be published on April 28, 2026.
Sunday Craft Workshop
Martha Park is a writer and illustrator from Memphis, Tennessee. She received an MFA from the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University, and was the Spring 2016 Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry. She has received fellowships and grants from the Religion & Environment Story Project, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Her collaborative illustrated journalism has been recognized with an EPPY Award for Best use of Data/Infographics and was a finalist for the Institute for Nonprofit News’ Insight Award for Visual Journalism. Martha’s work has appeared in Orion, Oxford American, The Guardian, Grist, Guernica, The Bitter Southerner, ProPublica, and elsewhere. Her first book, World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After, was published by Hub City Press.
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