Podcasts about hub city writers project

November 2024 Dante's Old South Jenna Schroeder is a writer, mother of four, and the director of communications for Dolphin Hat Games. Additionally, she is the founder of Little Bird Press, and her creative projects include the inspiring children's book “Are Enchanted Forests Real?” and “Tacoo Cat Goat Cheese Pizza and the Case of the Missing Hat.” Schroeder also contributed to the 2021 book “Peace in the Presence of God: Devotionals for Women with Anxiety” published by Michael Lacey. She earned a bachelor's degree in interpersonal communications from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.  For more information visit JennaaSchroeder.com or follow her @jennaaschroeder Michel Stone is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Border Child (Doubleday/Anchor, 2017) and The Iguana Tree (Hub City Press, 2012). She is the winner of the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Literature, and the South Carolina Fiction Award. She holds a BA in English from Clemson University and M.Ed. from Converse University. She is a past board chair of the Hub City Writers Project. These days she writes full time and volunteers at area schools and colleges. She recently completed her third novel. www.michelstone.com Lynne Kemen's full-length book of poetry, Shoes for Lucy,was published by SCE Press in 2023. Woodland Arts Editions published her chapbook, More Than a Handful in 2020. Her work is anthologized in The Memory Palace: an ekphrastic anthology (Ekphrastic Editions, 2024), Seeing Things (Woodland Arts, 2020). Lynne is President of the Board of Bright Hill Press and has served on many other not-for-profit boards. She is an Editor and Interviewer for Blue Mountain Review. lynnekemen.com www.facebook.com/lmkemen/ www.instagram.com/lynnekemen/ Kemen@lynnekemen.bsky.social   Echo Montgomery Garrett loves all things Southern, especially the tradition of storytelling. The 40+ year journalist has written 25 books and joined her son Connor Judson Garrett to run Lucid House Publishing during the Pandemic. Lucid House represents 12 authors, and all of its titles have won awards, except the latest releases that have not had time yet. She is the co-founder of Orange Duffel Bag Initiative, a nonprofit that provides life plan coaching to young people (14-24) experiencing homelessness, foster care, and/or extreme poverty. The Nashville native lives with her husband Kevin Garrett in Marietta, Georgia. www.lucidhousepublishing.com Additional Music by:  Buffalo Kin: www.buffalokin.com Larkin Poe: www.larkinpoe.com Justin Johnson: www.justinjohnsonlive.com Big Love for Our Sponsors: Lucid House Press: www.lucidhousepublishing.com Whispers of the Flight: www.amazon.com/Whispers-Flight-Voyage-Cosmic-Unity-ebook/dp/B0DB3TLY43 The Crown: www.thecrownbrasstown.com The Red Phone Booth: www.redphonebooth.com Bright Hill Press: www.brighthillpress.org We Deeply Appreciate: UCLA Extension Writing Program: www.uclaextension.edu Mercer University Press: www.mupress.org NPR: https: www.npr.org WUTC: www.wutc.org Alain Johannes for the original score in this show: www.alainjohannes.com The host, Clifford Brooks', The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Old Gods are available everywhere books are sold. Find them all here: www.cliffbrooks.com/how-to-order Check out his Teachable courses, The Working Writer and Adulting with Autism, here: brooks-sessions.teachable.com

In this episode of KEEN ON, Andrew talks to the author of RAIL SPLITTER, John Cribb, on distinguishing between fact and fiction in Abraham Lincoln's unbelievable life and what all Americans can learn from the great man today JOHN CRIBB is a bestselling author who has written about subjects ranging from history to education. His novel Old Abe has been hailed for its vivid portrayal of Abraham Lincoln.. John's previous work includes coauthoring The American Patriot's Almanac and The Educated Child, both New York Times bestsellers; co-editing The Human Odyssey, a 3-volume world history text; and developing on-line history courses. John also worked as former US Secretary of Education Bill Bennett's collaborator on the New York Times #1 bestseller The Book of Virtues. He has appeared on numerous TV, radio, and podcast shows such as C-SPAN's Washington Journal and Fox News's Fox & Friends, and his writing has been published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, FoxNews.com, The Hill, Real Clear Politics, and several other publications. During the Reagan administration, he worked at the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Abraham Lincoln has been John's hero from history since boyhood, when he read about Abe growing up on the frontier in the old Childhood of Famous Americans biography series. Thanks to a wise teacher, he had to memorize the Gettysburg Address in elementary school, and those famous words sank in. John's bookshelves are now full of Lincoln books. His love of history, Lincoln, and a good story led to The Rail Splitter and Old Abe. John worked on both novels on and off for a dozen years, which means it took three times as long to write the darned things than it did for Lincoln to win the Civil War. John lives in his hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina, a state rich in both Civil War and Revolutionary War history. He serves on the board of trustees of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries and the board of directors of the Spartanburg Philharmonic. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Hub City Writers Project, which operates an award-winning independent bookstore and a highly regarded literary press. He and his wife, Kirsten, have two wonderful daughters of whom they are enormously proud. When he is not reading or writing, John likes to sail, hike in the North Carolina mountains, and eat boiled peanuts on a South Carolina beach. Name as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, ANDREW KEEN is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Kelsey Ronan joins us to discuss her debut novel Chevy in the Hole, a series of interconnected vignettes spanning generations of two families living in Flint throughout WWII, the Civil Rights Movement, and the recent Water Crisis. At the heart of Ronan's book is a love story, and most importantly, a story of resilience. Kelsey grew up in Flint, Michigan. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in several notable literary reviews. She's the former writer in residence of the Hub City Writers Project, and currently teaches for Inside Out Literary Arts. https://us.macmillan.com/author/kelseyronan 

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with award-winning writer John Lane, author of the newly published novel Whose Woods These Are. GUEST: A 2014 inductee in the South Carolina Academy of Authors (the Palmetto State’s Literary Hall of Fame), environmentalist, memoirist, poet, and novelist John Lane is one of the founders of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, SC. Lane attended Wofford College, the Breadloaf School of English, and Bennington College. Among his many book awards, his selected poems Abandoned Quarry won the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance Poetry Book Award, his nonfiction book Coyote Settles the South was named a finalist and a Nature Book of Uncommon Merit by the John Burroughs Society, and his novel Fate Moreland’s Widow (published by Pat Conroy’s Story River Books) was named Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medalist. His second novel, Whose Woods These Are, is newly published by Mercer University Press. Lane is also a contributing writer to Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy and to State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love. He recently retired as professor of environmental studies and director of the Goodall Center for Environmental Studies at Wofford College. HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Conroy, named by Garden & Gun Magazine as one of "the top ten things to love about the South." Lean more at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org Copyrighted.

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with award-winning writer John Lane, author of the newly published novel Whose Woods These Are. GUEST: A 2014 inductee in the South Carolina Academy of Authors (the Palmetto State’s Literary Hall of Fame), environmentalist, memoirist, poet, and novelist John Lane is one of the founders of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, SC. Lane attended Wofford College, the Breadloaf School of English, and Bennington College. Among his many book awards, his selected poems Abandoned Quarry won the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance Poetry Book Award, his nonfiction book Coyote Settles the South was named a finalist and a Nature Book of Uncommon Merit by the John Burroughs Society, and his novel Fate Moreland’s Widow (published by Pat Conroy’s Story River Books) was named Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medalist. His second novel, Whose Woods These Are, is newly published by Mercer University Press. Lane is also a contributing writer to Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy and to State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love. He recently retired as professor of environmental studies and director of the Goodall Center for Environmental Studies at Wofford College.   HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Conroy, named by Garden & Gun Magazine as one of "the top ten things to love about the South."  Lean more at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org Copyrighted.  

When her mother suffers a stroke, Tessa Fontaine joins the traveling circus sideshow. She recounts this unique time in her life in her incredible new memoir, THE ELECTRIC WOMAN. She and James talk about being okay with not knowing what you're writing about, how first books are like teenagers, and finding the untold story. And, she is the first guest (to James's knowledge) to flashback to Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Save Tonight." Plus, Meg Reid of Hub City Writers Project.   Tessa Fontaine: http://www.tessafontaine.com/home.html Tessa and James discuss: Annie Hartnett Harper  University of Alabama  University of Utah  Freytag's Pyramid  LET'S NO ONE GET HURT by Jon Pineda  "The First Cut is the Deepest" by Sheryl Crow  "Save Tonight" by Eagle-Eye Cherry  Cormac McCarthy Ernest Hemingway  Jenna Johnson  HELL'S ANGELS by Hunter S. Thompson  - Meg Reid: (Hub City) https://hubcity.org/  (Book Design) http://www.megireid.com/ Meg and James discuss:  WPA  Newtonville Books  Turnrow Book Co.  Square Books  Tessa Fontaine  Betsy Teter  Publisher's Group West  Dzanc Books Milkweed Editions  OVER THE PLAIN HOUSES by Julia Franks  FLIGHT PATH by Hannah Palmer  John Jeremiah Sullivan  Sewanee  WHISKEY & RIBBONS by Leesa Cross-Smith Emily L. Smith  Lookout Books  ECOTONE  UNC-Wilmington  NEA  Sarabande Books  Carolina Wren Press  THE HANDS OF STRANGERS by Michael Farris Smith  Lemuria Books  Parnassus Books  Eric Svenson  Kelly Estep  Carmichael's Books  Bookmarks in Winston-Salem   - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

In this episode, Carrie Rollwagen talks to Betsy Teter of Spartanburg, South Carolina’s Hub City Writers Project about small press publishing versus self-publishing, crowdfunding projects, book signings, book selling and more.

We've talked a lot about Spartanburg's emerging reputation as a foodie town on the podcast. Over the last few years, our local restaurant scene has taken off in ways few people would've imagined a decade ago, with new and exciting concepts opening with almost metronomic regularity.  Against that backdrop, a book celebrating Spartanburg's food culture seems perfectly timed, and it's no surprise that the folks at Hub City Writers Project were plugged in enough to make that happen.  is a celebration of Spartanburg's emerging foodie and farm culture, highlighting a mix of local food producers who uphold the upcountry small farming tradition and a talented and personable assortment of local chefs. The book also features recipes that speak to our South Carolina cultural heritage: peach biscuits, Carolina red barbecue, stew meat; as well the cuisine that reflects our international flair: apple strudel, spaghetti carbonara, Thai steak and more. Today on the podcast, we're talking with Betsy Teter, Editor & Director of Development with Hub City Writers Project and Amanda Richardson, co-author of the book and founder of the local food blog, .

It's easy to forget sometimes, with our city's accelerating downtown development boom and the associated exponential increase in activity and buzz, but the Spartanburg that birthed back in 1995 was a very different place from the one we see today. Decades of decline had turned what once had been a dynamic upstate urban core into a hollowed-out shell, its vibrant post-war bustle replaced by a turn-of-the-century malaise, with shuttered storefronts and crumbling facades serving as the only reminders of what once was. With that as their backdrop, a group of local writers intent on giving Spartanburg a new sense of itself (and reviving a long-dead nickname in the process) met in a coffee shop and created what is now one of the South's premier publishing houses, along the way selling over 150,000 books, winning 14 Independent Publisher Awards, and adding some downtown brick and mortar to their ink and paper in the form the fantastic Hub City Bookshop. Steering the ship through that remarkable run has been Betsy Teter, Executive Director of Hub City Writers Project and one of Spartanburg's greatest champions of local arts and culture.  This year, in recognition of the enormous place-building cultural contributions she's made to Spartanburg and to literature throughout South Carolina, the South Carolina Arts Commission , our state's highest arts honor. Today on the podcast, we sit down with Teter to talk about the award and about the pivotal, decades-long work she's spearheaded to earn it.

It's been 20 years since three Spartanburg writers came together in a Downtown Spartanburg coffeeshop to dream up what would eventually become Hub City Writers Project. What started as something HCWP Executive Director Betsy Teter calls a "one season lark" has since grown into a nationally acclaimed independent publisher about to release its 70th title, and to celebrate their 20 years of outstanding place-based literary leadership in Spartanburg, the group has planned a  On today's podcast, we're spending some time talking with Teter to get the details on the weekend's festivities and also taking a deeper look at HCWP, from its history and current place in Downtown Spartanburg's cultural landscape, to the organization's future as a growing regional publishing icon.

Let's say you've got an idea for the next "Great American Novel," an idea so great that it's practically begging to leap from your imagination to the page. Where do you start? Even if you've got writing chops to put the story down in black and white, what then? How do you go about getting an agent who can nail down the book contract your masterpiece deserves? Today on the podcast, we talk with Hub City Writers Project Executive Director, Betsy Teter about "The Writing Show," a monthly series of panel discussions with writers and publishing professionals being held in partnership with Spartanburg County Public Libraries. Held at the , the program allows writers and aspiring writers to hear advice from panelists in a casual, talk show format and to get specific questions answered about a different topic each month. This month's edition of "The Writing Show," on getting a book contract, is being held February 20. For more information, listen to the podcast below.