HUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT
New York book publishers don’t always do right by the South. Manhattan offices might love a of the region, sure, because airy beach romances and Appalachian stereotypes sell. But if; , a cofounder and current development director; and , director of Hub City Press. “The millions of people who live between Baltimore and Texas are offering us a wealth of stories and perspectives,” Reid says. “We’ll publish a Korean American from New Orleans, an Indian American writer from Atlanta, and so many other Southern voices. We’ve been able to mine, at a deeper level, the stories of people who actually live and work and write in the South.” Hub City further supports its authors with residencies, writing prizes, and projects such as the Cold Mountain Fund Series, a partnership with best-selling novelist Charles Frazier to publish a series of hardbacks. The next book in the series comes out in April: author Carter Sickels’s novel , which wrestles with the AIDS epidemic in small-town Appalachia. In May, find , the riveting and raw short-story collection of Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, a young writer who grew up in Woodland, North Carolina, population 712, and won the $10,000 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize, judged last year by Lauren Groff. These and others are singular voices to be heard from hollers to skyscrapers.
