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...

Early finals for HOTHOUSE BLOOM by Austyn Wohlers are in my office in all their fleshy, pulpy glory. Big announcements coming in the next few weeks for this highly anticipated debut. Book media: email [email protected] to get one from this box!

PLUM by @andyanderegg.bsky.social has been longlisted for the Crook's Corner Book Prize for the best debut novel set in the American South! The winner will be announced in January 2026. crookscornerbookprize.com/crooks-corne...

Hub City Press is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, selected by @paradiselaust.bsky.social, is Acie Clark for Small Talk, which will be published in fall 2026! www.hubcity.org/news/acie-cl...

Once again, @hubcitypress.bsky.social is looking for experienced readers for paid manuscript reading this fall—both fiction & nonfiction. You'd be the first eyes on submissions and help us decide what requires a closer look. Email relevant experience to [email protected]. DM with questions.

Our Week in Reviews: 7/19/25. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/our... @simonandschuster.bsky.social @hubcitypress.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social @vikingbooks.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social #Booksky

Happy eighth anniversary to the moment Kai Ryssdal stopped by to talk to @hubcitypress.bsky.social founder about Spartanburg history + development and the office of seven women lost their collective minds from nerdy excitement.

Y'all—thank you! Since our NEA grant was terminated in May, the donations and support have been pouring in. We are thrilled to report that Amazon Literary Partnerships and Milliken have funded us again for next year, and Spartanburg County has stepped up our grant funding at an unprecedented level.

Hub City Press is pleased to announce the six finalists for the 2025 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize! We will announce the winner, selected by judge Derrick Austin, next week. www.hubcity.org/news/2025-ne...

There’s a storm (literal or figurative) constantly brewing in this penetrating collection. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/b... @hubcitypress.bsky.social @robertbusbywrites.bsky.social #Booksky

Wowwee @hubcitypress.bsky.social is OPEN this weekend for single-narrative nonfiction! This is my time, my favorite stuff! Can be personal, reportage, memoir, cultural criticism, history, or a blend of the above. Ends at midnight on Sunday. Drop any questions below. hubcity.submittable.com/submit

We're open for single-narrative nonfiction submissions this weekend! Send us your memoirs, cultural criticism, or personal reportage. Ends at midnight on Sunday. www.hubcity.org/submissions

HOTHOUSE BLOOM by Austyn Wohlers is on The Millions's summer book list! HHB hits shelves in late August, set on an orchard and steeped in ostensible idyll themillions.com/2025/07/the-...

20. Bodock: Stories by Robert Busby (@robertbusbywrites.bsky.social) via @hubcitypress.bsky.social Tales centered around the fictional town of Bodock and the real Mid-South Ice Storm of 1994. Busby writes characters with depth and warmth and examines hard truths with empathy, compassion and grit.

What I have for us today, from Ashleigh Bryant Phillips’s "The Chopping Block" in Sleepovers (@hubcitypress.bsky.social, 2020): And then I get up and say, "There is a charge for the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge for the beating of my heart, see it still goes and there is a charge."

My favorite sale of the year is going on at @hubcitypress.bsky.social!! It's the annual SHORTS Sale: 30% off short stories, essays, anthologies, poems and all other collections. Head to www.hubcity.org/books to order. Sell automatically applies a checkout and $50+ gets you free shipping!

“Set in the twilight of 1999, it’s not just a coming-of-age story, but a coming-of-apocalypse tale” 📌 ICYMI, @aheartofgould.bsky.social reviews JUNAH AT THE END OF THE WORLD by @danleach.bsky.social out now via @hubcitypress.bsky.social southwestreview.com/the-end-is-a...

If the summer heat is melting your attention span, head over to hubcity.org/books to shop our summer shorts sale for books with short segments that you can leisurely dip into!

Why you should be reading the comments and not the article, Game of Thrones, ChatGPT, travels in India, and more with Nancy Lemann in @parisreview.bsky.social. Preorder our re-release of THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU at hubcity.org/ritz, out this April! www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...

Read an early version of Andy Anderegg’s PLUM back in 2023, and am so psyched to finally have my hands on a real copy. Let this book break your heart immediately @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Shout outs for Carter Sickels's THE PRETTIEST STAR and Ashleigh Bryant Phillips's SLEEPOVERS in this fantastic piece about the legacy of our beloved, much-missed queer icon Dorothy Allison by Emma Copley Eisenberg in Harper's Bazaar! www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...