⭐ ⭐ ⭐ THREE Starred Reviews for the "moving" "gut-punch debut" HOPE HOUSE by Joe Bond, written "with sinewy, loquacious eloquence" from Kirkus Reviews, @publisherswkly.bsky.social, and Foreword Reviews!

Nancy Lemann is back: new edition of Lives of the Saints and Ritz on the Bayou (@hubcitypress.bsky.social) and a new novel, The Oyster Diaries are all coming next month. Nancy Lemann’s voice is one of the most unusual in American fiction, unabashedly digressive, as witty as it is melancholy.

So far @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's graph is a huge hit at our Duke symposium. (N/S big publisher vs online, E/W is marketable vs art novel) feat @hubcitypress.bsky.social HOTHOUSE BLOOM

We are single-handedly trying to change the stigma around jacketless hardcovers. It's officially a hardcover (which our distributor and libraries like) but it can stay priced at $22 to $25 (which readers like) and also less prone to damage (which I, the publisher, like). @hubcitypress.bsky.social

This #WomensHistoryMonth, read the 40th-anniversary edition of Nancy Lemann’s THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU (@hubcitypress.bsky.social), reporting on the corruption trials of Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards: www.hubcity.org/books/nonfic...

Hub City Press is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Deep Line Poetry Series selected by editor-at-large Jennifer Chang, Bianca Alyssa Pérez for her manuscript snake breath that will come out in spring 2027! www.hubcity.org/news/hub-cit...

Finished copies of our first major reissue project: THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU by Nancy Lemann! New Orleans Book fest, attendees and pre-orders get it first! For everyone else, available wherever books are sold on April 7th. Order yours: www.hubcity.org/ritzofthebayou

So excited to bring Caleb Johnson into the @hubcitypress.bsky.social fold! TELEGRAPH ROAD is coming in late 2027!

Hub City Press is thrilled to announce it will publish Caleb Johnson's sophomore novel, TELEGRAPH ROAD, in fall 2027! www.hubcity.org/news/hub-cit...

Happy pub day to LONG EYE by @kwoyafagin.bsky.social! See her on tour or purchase a copy at hubcity.org/longeye (free shipping through next Tues)!

AWP haul part 3: Kwoya Maples, one of my favorite local poets and a coworker at UA, released her second book at AWP! I was around while she wrote this, basically sending her related memes (Gemini/Gemini Moon communication), and I’m so proud of her. From @hubcitypress.bsky.social

We are delighted to share that THE PAST IS A JEAN JACKET by Cloud Delfina Cardona is the Award Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters's Naomi Shihab Nye Award for Best First Book of Poetry! Congratulations to Cloud and to all fellow winners. Full list: texasinstituteofletters.org/wp-content/u...

HOTHOUSE BLOOM is coming out in paperback on August 11! Preorder at hubcity.org/hhb. Also, ICYMI, it also made the Republic of Consciousness Shortlist!

Reviewers + booksellers, email julie [at] hubcity [dot] org if you'd like to receive a physical ARC of either fall title (more coming soon!). WORK LUNCH DRCs also currently available on Edelweiss www.edelweiss.plus#keywordSearc...

We'll see you in Baltimore in a week! Come say hi, get some (signed!) books (on sale!), and check out our new pins!

The book industry is doom and gloom these days but at @hubcitypress.bsky.social, sales are up 30% over last year because of three national awards for two weird, short novels. Good things still happen to books, y'all. (Also, a reminder to publish what you love and not only what you think might sell.)

Woah! Congrats to Austyn and HOTHOUSE BLOOM @hubcitypress.bsky.social) for making the Republic of Consciousness Prize shortlist with our pals at @clashbooks.bsky.social, @dorothyproject.bsky.social, @andotherstories.bsky.social and other great presses! www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news

Teddy goes for the big title. August 25, from @hubcitypress.bsky.social!

Registration is open for the 2026 Piedmont Publishing Symposium: lnkd.in/ekTnh6wS Join 100+ publishing professionals, authors, allies, & students for conversations about the business of independent publishing. HT @cupress.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social UNG Press. FYI @aupresses.bsky.social

I’ll be inSpartanburg, SC, Thursday February 26 at Converse University in conversation with Allison Vick. Thanks you, @hubcitypress.bsky.social for the invitation . www.hubcity.org/events/640/r...

We're having little midwinter sale over at hubcity.org/books! Runs now through the end of Feb, so it's a great time to snag any 2025 (or older) titles that have been on your TBR 😉

🎉 We are excited to announce that PLUM has been named an LA Times (@latimes.com) Book Prize Finalist in the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Category! Congratulations to Andy Anderegg and all fellow finalists! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

TONIGHT! With @hubcitypress.bsky.social, @andotherstories.bsky.social, @newvesselpress.bsky.social, @clashbooks.bsky.social, @charcopress.com, @transitbooks.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, et al.

Getting into the THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU mood and celebrating Mardi Gras with King Cake! ⚜️🎉

An incredible fall debut to keep on your radar, available for preorder ✨

my humblebrag for the 2020s: my copy of THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU is from Tom Verlaine's book sale. but why not prepare a humblebrag for the generations yet to come?

In COME BY HERE, Neesha Powell-Ingabire “chips away at coastal Georgia’s facade of beaches and golden marshes to recover undertold Black history alongside personal and family stories.” Read a memoir from @hubcitypress.bsky.social this #BlackHistoryMonth: www.hubcity.org/books/nonfic...

☕🌱 Cover reveal for SMALL TALK by Acie Clark, winner of our New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize, selected by @paradiselaust.bsky.social! Read "Small Talk" and preorder the book, out 9/22, at hubcity.org/smalltalk

Happy pub day to Lolita Stewart-White's collection, BLACK FRAG/MENTS, out today from @hubcitypress.bsky.social! Learn more about these poems in her interview with @croptopassassin.bsky.social.

black frag/ments by Lolita Stewart-White is out today! This collection is a winner of our Deep Line Poetry Series, selected by Ashley Jones. Lolita's breathtaking collection focuses on fragmentation of the Black body, family, + community by the historic and ongoing racism in the US healthcare system

Belatedly, but with no less excitement, sharing that HOTHOUSE BLOOM by Austyn Wohlers made the longlist for The Republic of Consciousness Prize, an award granted to 10 books from small, independent presses! www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news

Thrilled to share that PLUM by @andyanderegg.bsky.social is a winner of the the American Library Association's Alex Awards! Congratulations to Andy and to all fellow winners. Full list americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc...

Get ready for Hub City's first big reissue project: acclaimed novelist Nancy Lemann’s only work of nonfiction, The Ritz of the Bayou. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is publishing Lives of the Saints & The Oyster Diaries, so we're taking a tandem publication approach and all books are coming out April 7!

The virtual book launch for SINGING FROM THE DEEP END will be hosted by @cavankerrypress.bsky.social on 2/3 at 7pm EDT. So excited to celebrate my book’s release & the beautiful LONG EYE by @kwoyafagin.bsky.social, out from @hubcitypress.bsky.social on 3/10. Hope you can join us! (link in bio).

Any Lee Bains fans over here?! Art direction by me. Cover photo by Matt White (using a sign we dug out of a barn in Arkansas) In his debut poetry collection, Alabama poet and musician Lee Bains draws on his own experience at the intersection of work and food—the daily ritual of a workday lunch.

🥪 Cover reveal for Alabama poet and musician Lee Bains's debut collection, WORK LUNCH, out 10/13! Read this excerpt and preorder it at hubcity.org/worklunch

Thrilled to share that Hothouse Bloom by Austyn Wohlers made the 2025 @usrofc.bsky.social Longlist! Congrats to all the other presses + nominees!

Did you know that we distribute issues of the Southern Foodways Alliance's quarterly magazine, Gravy? The new winter issue just dropped, all about the power and pleasure of shared work and of leisure time spent in community. Snag an issue or subscribe for the year! www.hubcity.org/books/gravy/...

Cover reveal for A CARNIVAL OF CRIME: MURDER, MISCHIEF, AND MALICE IN 1890s SPARTANBURG by Betsy Wakefield Teter! Donate to have your name in the book at hubcity.org/support or preorder at hubcity.org/carnival

‼️Less than a week left to submit‼️ Send your short story collection in by January 4 at 11:59PM—finalists will be read by the one and only Catherine Lacey! Learn more and submit at hubcity.submittable.com.

Need a last minute gift before Christmas? We have SFA's Gravy Quarterly magazine subscriptions that will last the whole year and are the perfect gift for foodies and anyone interested in diverse food cultures of the changing American South. Subscribe over at hubcity.org/gravy

Last day of our 40% off backlist sale on hubcity.org/books! 📚🎁

A Christmas-y exclusive excerpt of forthcoming novel (out May 5, 2026) Hope House by Joe Bond in @people.com today! Read it here people.com/christmas-gr... & preorder your copy at hubcity.org/hopehouse!

@hubcitypress.bsky.social’s Zora photographed today

“Today’s poem looks at the word migrant and its meaning apart from the current political climate," shares host Maggie Smith in today’s encore episode. Read “/’mīgrent/” by Tiana Nobile: bit.ly/4iVCRfg 📖: @hubcitypress.bsky.social

The teeny tiniest interview in PW to close out @hubcitypress.bsky.social 30th anniversary. In the newsletter today and in this week's print issue. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Fresh shirts are printing up now, so place your order before midnight if you were thinking about getting a super fun Hub City shirt (more colors available + a sweatshirt!) www.bonfire.com/hub-city-shi...

Excited to share the new logo I designed for the awesome folks at @hubcitypress.bsky.social I had a great time working with @megireid.bsky.social & @katearden.bsky.social. If you’re into it, you can snag one of their dope new hats featuring the logo on the back. Link to hats in bio.

It's @hubcitypress.bsky.social's biggest sale of the year!!! Now through December 15, 40% (!!) backlist titles, including some of our top-selling titles. You get gifts for all the readers in your life, and we empty our warehouse and end the year on a strong note! www.hubcity.org/books

🌟 We're thrilled to share that LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING by Ashley M. Jones was selected as one of @shelf-awareness.com's 2025 Best Books of the Year! We're so pleased this standout personal collection of poems made it into this top 10 selection of incredible books. Grab a copy at hubcity.org/lullaby