Hub City Press

Founded in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1995, Hub City Press is the South’s premier independent nonprofit literary press. Focused on finding and spotlighting extraordinary new and unsung writers from the American South, our curated list champions diverse authors and books that don’t fit into the commercial publishing landscape. The press has published over 150 high-caliber literary works, including novels, short stories, poetry, memoir, and books emphasizing the region's culture and history. Hub City is interested in books with a strong sense of place and is committed to introducing a diverse roster of lesser-heard Southern voices. We believe strongly that the publishing industry needs to promote a more diverse range of experiences, and so have committed ourselves to spotlighting lesser-heard Southern voices including: people of color, members of LGBTQ and gender diverse communities, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, as well as ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities.

We are proudly funded by the grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In recent years we've had numerous Best Book of the Year nods from NPR and Kirkus, books longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and The Story Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. Our books have received coverage in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, magazines like The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, People, O, The Oprah Magazine, and on NPR and Good Morning America.