In Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and West Virginia, ACA enrollment has tripled in the last five years. Nearly all of the enrollees in Florida, West Virginia, Alabama, and Mississippi are getting subsidies. www.thelivingsouth.com/the-federal-...

My husband is going to Hanoi for ten days for work and it’s been (checks watch) 8 hours since I dropped him off at the airport and I’m already beside myself that he’s gone for so long

Wild to me that we could get our NEA funding stripped and an Indie Next pick (and big national coverage, watch this space) in a 3 month span. All kudos to @katearden.bsky.social and @rainbowfish523.bsky.social--I truly think @hubcitypress.bsky.social is singular and punching way above our weight.

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

GROWTH! 💀🥴

honestly a lack of research from a lawyer with a classics degree pretending to be a writer is so much less concerning than what i found out when i read the goodreads reviews. 90% of them are one star rage posts. HC must just print these books as literal rage bait. at least people are buying them...

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.

It's truly a bummer that PEN/Hemingway award moving to PEN/Faulkner foundation means they eliminated the submission fee waivers for publishers who have less than $2 million in sales. We spend thousands in prize submissions every year just to be considered for these things--it made a difference.

to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation

And Rebecca Makkai!

We offer an author-centered, boutique experience over here at Hub City Press. Or...whatever this is. (@megireid.bsky.social and @katearden.bsky.social generating synopsis copy in an endless google sheet...)

Thanks, @megireid.bsky.social and @katearden.bsky.social! I am so excited that you are bringing THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU back into print. Looking forward to writing more about Nancy Lemann, Louisiana, New Orleans, and her entire body of work.

hey siri, does the military like it when they are subjected to open disrespect from civilian leaders?

"...we don’t advocate for violence, but when they use brutal violence against our people—and kidnapping mothers and fathers from children is violent —when they do things like that, we have every right, every historic right, to defend our communities by any ways that we can."

TRUTH BOMB 💣 this guy is a Pedophile. I also made him President

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

HAPPY PUB DAY TO BODOCK! Order your copy now with free shipping on our site. If you're in Memphis, head to Novel for Robert's launch tonight! hubcity.org/bodock

niche post but i don't understand what kind of money these trade shows think small presses have

the extremely lapsed Catholic girls of Hub City getting emotional about new americapope (cc @katearden.bsky.social)

purple poetry fall at @hubcitypress.bsky.social

Today is @hubcitypress.bsky.social's 30th anniversary! It's been weird and difficult to have it land at such a terrible moment, spending it talking with arts allies to try to figure out advocacy steps around our terminated NEA funding. But it's also a great moment to reflect on the anniversary. (🧵)

Well. Despite the NEA nonsense (more on this tomorrow), in good news, it's pub day for WORLD WITHOUT END: ESSAYS ON APOCALYPSE AND AFTER by Martha Park! We're so proud to be publishing this necessary book and hopeful book, something we think folks could use these days. hubcity.org/worldwithoutend

On Friday, we received, along with 40+ other independent publishers, a notice that our NEA grant had been terminated. Here's a brief video from Executive Director/Publisher @megireid.bsky.social on how the termination affects us and what you can do to help. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Be...

Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.

Looking for some writing advice? Hub City Managing Editor @katearden.bsky.social has some tips! Read up on @pw.org: www.pw.org/agents_edito...

PLUM IS OUT TODAY! It has been the dream of my life to edit and work on this book and with an author like Andy. I'm so thrilled for y'all to read this book, to met J, and to tell your friends all about it.

lol charging to submit trade reviews doesn't seem like the apocalypse at ALL

Day one of AWP hell week (yes it starts on Monday) and I've already missed a meeting

Another new story from me up at @mrbullbull.bsky.social. Huge thanks to Ben for taking a shot on this one.

A story of mine in @ninthletter.bsky.social online today! I dug an old, half-finished draft out of the pile last year and polished it up. I'm proud of it! I've been trying new things and going in new directions. Very cool to have gotten picked up by a mag I love. ninthletter.com/2025/02/28/k...

So incredibly excited to have work in this issue from Ninth Letter online and to dive into the rest of the gross stuff here!

Out tomorrow, I asked my friends how they're feeding themselves in these insane terrible times... open.substack.com/pub/whatimco...

Anyone want to tell me about the meal you cook when you are just scraping the barrel energy-wise but you still want home cooking? Lmk!

she's giving cruella de vil. this woman eats puppies.

🍊PLUM receives a starred review in Publishers Weekly! "Tour du force of second-person narration"—we love to see it! Need a copy? DM me! Need to order one? Head to @hubcitypress.bsky.social at hubcity.org/plum.

The state of South Carolina introduced a bill last week that would ban DEI work across the state. It bans DEI offices and departments and training requirements for employees and new hires. It bans efforts to hire diverse staff. www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025...

please do not have a full volume speaker phone conversation in the bookshop on a monday between 2-3pm because that's my shift i will ask you to leave

Latest NEA grant update... Wonder when the "free speech absolutist" crowd will deign to chime in. www.arts.gov/grants/legal...

the way to help NEA funded presses is to give them money. donate to them or buy books, share posts, host their authors.

god damn it, what a shit year to be getting married

2026 at @hubcitypress.bsky.social is looking pretty great, y'all. No matter what happens next. Poetry: Lolita Stewart-White's black frag/ments (FEB) + Kwoya Fagin Maples's LONG EYE (APRIL), and @paradiselaust.bsky.social's selection for the New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize (open now!)

bought an original milton glaser bob dylan lithograph from 1966 for like $40 on ebay this morning so nothing can stop me today. it's a little beat up but for the price i'm okay with it.

it's weird to be in the business of actively selling something so precious and so obscure. (books)

okay history lesson, the office of the president has had this much power for awhile. we just didn’t tend to elect stupid revengeful fascists until now so there was no one to test it and no measures to stop if they did

jesus chatgpt, not now

what if we just all don't pay our taxes

gulp

Complaining and talking about caesar salad in my newsletter this week. whatimcooking.substack.com/p/january-su...

gave almost my entire office covid but i promise i tested so many times and i wore a mask when i came back to work lol the 2020 guilt is still so strong in me