THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU is in many ways the key to understanding contemporary American politics. It's also an eclectic romp through New Orleans which is a complete pleasure. It's finally coming back into print thanks to @hubcitypress.bsky.social. You'll want to pre-order it.

Nancy Lemann fans! We have a cover for our THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU reissue! @hubcitypress.bsky.social is so pleased to be working with our pals at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social (who are publishing Nancy's new novel, as well as a reprint) for a big combined release day on April 7! Email me to get an ARC!

Grateful to whoever's handling acquisitions at my local library for their small-press taste... Saw @hubcitypress.bsky.social's new novel PLUM by Andy Anderegg (bookshop.org/a/25459/9798...) displayed on a New Releases shelf this weekend & excitedly borrowed it 💙📚👀

Poets! We're rolling the Deep Line Poetry Series deadline through the weekend! Now closing Sunday, Nov 2, 11:59PM. Send us your manuscript! Jennifer Chang is our editor-at-large this year. She can't wait to read your work. Guidelines at hubcity.submittable.com.

Halloween flash sale on hubcity.org/books! All books are 25% off today, no code necessary. Orders $50+ ship free. 🎃

Last call! This one closes tomorrow!

I've said it elsewhere, but if you're a young organization in the South that meets the eligibility criteria for the new literary fund (budget over $50k) but has not yet gained 501(c)(3) status, @hubcitypress.bsky.social might be able to serve as your fiscal sponsor. www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...

flipped through this and I am so excited to get to it! @hubcitypress.bsky.social is amazing and we are quite fortunate to have them right here in Spartanburg :)

Been a weird year to celebrate an anniversary, tho less weird than our 25th in 2020, but I think three decades of hub city--press, bookshop, lit org--is worth celebrating. If a sustainable and vital literary organization can continue to exist in dark red SC, books can truly come from everywhere.

🎉THAT'S HOW IT WORKS: 30 YEARS OF FICTION FROM HUB CITY PRESS is out today! With an intro by @megireid.bsky.social, this anthology is a celebration of 3 decades of publishing from the margins & a testament to the transformative power of community in creating literature. Purchase at hubcity.org/thiw!

i was once dubbed "the das-efx of poetry" for all of my pop culture references, so i fully relate!

Fiscally-sponsored orgs can apply!! This is a remarkably underutilized tool for combating inequity in funding. @hubcitypress.bsky.social has served as fiscal agent for new orgs applying for Poetry Foundation grant funding and we're happy to do it again. (Processing as I read the guidelines!)

🩳 We’re thrilled to announce a brand new initiative today: Hub City Shorts is a series of publications edited by @gabrielbump.bsky.social, Mesha Maren, and M. Randal O'Wain, coming in 2027 from Hub City Press! Up first: SC and MS! www.hubcity.org/news/hub-cit...

We're open for fiction submissions! For this call, we are interested first or second novels. Head over to hubcity.org/submissions for guidelines and more info.

THE PAST IS A JEAN JACKET by @cloudelfina.bsky.social is out today!! Free shipping when you order from hubcity.org/jeanjacket today through next Tues!

Writers! We've got open submissions and opportunities going on in several categories! Apply now for Hub City's Winter Intensive with instructors Emma Copley Eisenberg and Martha Park www.hubcity.org/winterintens...

Reyes Ramirez’s collection “breaks open notions of destiny, in humorous and devastating ways, to reimagine the past and present a new future where lack transforms to abundance.” Read EL REY OF GOLD TEETH (@hubcitypress.bsky.social) this #HispanicHeritageMonth! www.hubcity.org/books/poetry...

THE PAST IS A JEAN JACKET is forthcoming next month from @hubcitypress.bsky.social! Cloud Delfina Cardona’s debut poetry collection is “a time capsule of a 90s queer, Latinx teenhood.” #HispanicHeritageMonth www.hubcity.org/books/poetry...

Ashley M. Jones the WPLS tonight (9/24) at 7:30pm (EST). The Zoom room opens at 7:15pm. Order LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING from @hubcitypress.bsky.social: www.hubcity.org/books/poetry... #poetrysky #poetrynews #writers #poets #poetry

Tonight (9/24)!! @taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley M. Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry @sundresspub.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Ashley M. Jones the WPLS on 9/24 at 7:30pm (EST). The Zoom room opens at 7:15pm. Order LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING from @hubcitypress.bsky.social: www.hubcity.org/books/poetry.... #poetrysky #poetrynews #writers #poets #poetry

Hey look, @hubcitypress.bsky.social's lead titles, HOTHOUSE BLOOM on the new & noteworthy shelf at McNally Jackson!

Reminder that we'll be at @bkbookfest.bsky.social this Sunday, but if you can't make it, we've got a sale happening on our website right now! 25% off books--no code necessary. Free shipping on orders $50+.

We'll be at the @bkbookfest.bsky.social this Sunday! See you there!

Tomorrow at 6pm, join writers from @hubcitypress.bsky.social and @kentuckypress.bsky.social for a short reading and discussion about reading, writing, and the South. Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #fiction #memoir #poetry #writingcommunity

Save the date for 9/24!! @taylorbyas.bsky.social, Ashley Jones, & @djvorreyer.bsky.social read for the WPLS. #poetrysky #poetrynews #poets #poetry @sundresspub.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social

"I wish all writers the audiences they desire and the acclaim they deserve." In this week's #TenQuestions, Ashley M. Jones shares a behind-the-scenes look at the writing process for her new collection, Lullaby for the Grieving, out now from @hubcitypress.bsky.social. Read more: at.pw.org/10qjones

LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones is out today! Read "In the Beginning, There was the Word," a poem from the collection, in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

“This collection is filled with love, caution, correction, and ferocity.” @duffusmatthew.bsky.social reviews LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones. @hubcitypress.bsky.social southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/09/12/l...

In better news! Today we announced a program to give local kids a free book of their choosing, so they can see themselves as readers and bookstore shoppers. Open to schools, community groups, shelters, and more. Named for our resident bookshop cat, Zora!

Writer Austyn Wohlers in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan about her ambitious & acclaimed new novel HOTHOUSE BLOOM @hubcitypress.bsky.social #interlocutorinterviews interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/202...

Introducing Zora Bucks! The Hub City Writers Project's Zora Bucks initiative is a bold, neuroscience-backed literacy program that gives Spartanburg children the joy and agency of buying a book of their choice–using Zora Bucks currency. www.hubcity.org/zorabucks

"A precise portrayal of the tension between utopian immersion in nature and the relentless encroachment of money-mindedness. The novel delves into the consequences of commodification—reflected in the natural world and the self." Review of HOTHOUSE BLOOM by Austyn Wohlers. @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Submissions are open for the 2026 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, judged by @catherinelacey.bsky.social! Head to hubcity.submittable.com/submit for guidelines and to submit your manuscripts!

Pregame apple-picking season w/ us & Austyn Wohlers’ new novel HOTHOUSE BLOOM 🍎 Read Wilson McBee take on the goods below & snag your copy via @hubcitypress.bsky.social 🍂 southwestreview.com/cultivating-...

Read an excerpt from HOTHOUSE BLOOM by Austyn Wohlers over at Debutiful's website! debutiful.net/2025/08/26/r... @hubcitypress.bsky.social

“[Y]ou can’t edit something into being good before getting it down.” In this week's #TenQuestions, Austyn Wohlers shares insights into the writing process that led to her debut novel, Hothouse Bloom, out now from @hubcitypress.bsky.social. Read more: at.pw.org/10qwohlers

HOTHOUSE BLOOM by Austyn Wohlers is out today! Celebrate with Austyn in New York at Books Are Magic (tonight) & P&T Knitwear (tomorrow) or see her all along the east coast. Can't make it? Order a copy at hubcity.org/hhb with free shipping through 9/2! Now let's get into all the buzz for this book ->

Cheers to the end of summer and the end of our book club with Bradley Sides! What did you think about Dan Leach's JUNAH AT THE END OF THE WORLD? @hubcitypress.bsky.social

New design for HOPE HOUSE, coming 5/5/26! This debut has already sold in the UK and early praise is coming in steadily. Galleys will be here some time in the next month. Book media, please email [email protected] to get one from the first batch!

"Damico" was one of the first stories I published as an editor at TMR and it's lived with me all these years. Very very excited for this book. mastersreview.com/new-voices-d...

Cover reveal for HOPE HOUSE by Joe Bond, out 5/5/26! Set in '80s Kentucky, this debut is told from inside a treatment home for teens, where lost boys become more than their pasts and discover the transformative power of hope. Design: @megireid.bsky.social / @katearden.bsky.social

5 days till fresh fall books begin to drop! Our season kicks off with Hothouse Bloom by Austyn Wohlers (8/26), then Lullaby for the Grieving by Ashley M. Jones (9/16), then the past is a jean jacket by Cloud Delfina Cardona (10/14). Books available to order at hubcity.org/books (& everywhere else).

🍎 HOTHOUSE BLOOM is nearly here! New York folks, see Austyn next week at her Tuesday launch at Books Are Magic (Montague) and Wednesday at P&T Knitwear (RSVP for both!). Mark your calendars and catch her along the east coast all the way down to Atlanta!

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HOTHOUSE BLOOM is an Indie Next Pick!!! Extremely gratifying that this weird debut novel about apples is finding so many fans out in the world. I was obsessed from the jump. Thank you, booksellers! Only you could have pulled this off. (Out on August 26, on the (highly competitive) September list.)

Building @hubcitypress.bsky.social's instagram has been painfully slow but we're FINALLY on the cusp of 10k (83 short). If you like what we do and don't follow us, maybe uh...change that? (we're at @hubcitywriters).

DAYTONA TEDDY RIGGS by Drew Buxton coming to a bookshop near you in fall 2026! 🥂🏈💪

Carter Sickels will be in Barcelona on Thursday to read from THE PRETTIEST STAR with Huw Lemmey @hubcitypress.bsky.social @versolibros.com @cartersickels.bsky.social www.backstorybookshop.com/event-detail...

Spot LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING (that big one in the center of the preview image ;D) in @usatoday.com's latest roundup of new and upcoming poetry! www.usatoday.com/story/entert...