Writing In Place Conference 2021

429 North Church Street,Spartanburg SC 29303

09 July, 2021

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Hub City will host the 21th annual Writing in Place conference on the campus of Wofford College July 9-11, 2020* in Spartanburg, SC. Hub City will host the 21th annual Writing in Place conference on the campus of Wofford College July 9-11, 2020* in Spartanburg, South Carolina. This year's conference will feature lots of new workshops, faculty readings, and more! Published novelists, poets, essayists, and literary critics lead a series of workshops over three days that include intense instruction, challenging exercises, and an opportunity for feedback. Registrants must sign up for one genre: poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Our instructors will expect you to write during this conference, and we have planned a weekend with "downtime" for that purpose. We also want you to have time for networking with faculty and new friends. This conference is open to 48 adult writers and sells out every year, so register early. This conference is geared toward starting a new piece of work rather than workshopping something you have already written. Our conference is held in the Michael S. Brown Village Center on the north side of campus. Overnight guests are housed in the Village apartment housing. See photos of past conferences here. *Please note that this conference was rescheduled from 2020 due to COVID-19 compliations and these dates MAY be subject to change based on Wofford College's availability. This event was created for roll over refunds from 2020. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding!Members of the Hub City Writers Project are eligible for a discounted rate. Please give us a call at 864.577.9349 and we'll be happy to check your membership status and give you a discount code. Don't know if you're a member? Feel free to give us a call at 864.577.9349 and we'll be happy to check for you. 2021 Faculty Keynote: Kent Wasom Kent Wascom was born in New Orleans and raised in Pensacola, Florida. Wascom’s first novel, The Blood of Heaven, was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and NPR. It was a semifinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan Award for First Fiction. Wascom was awarded the 2012 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for Fiction and selected as one of Gambit‘s 40 Under 40. He lives in Louisiana, where he teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University. Faculty Poet: Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello is the author of Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh, 2016), which won the 2015 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the 2016 Florida Book Awards bronze medal, and was a finalist for the 2017 Milt Kessler Award; and the chapbook Last Train to the Midnight Market (Finishing Line Press, 2013). She was the co-founding editor for Print-Oriented Bastards (2011 - 2017) and producer for The Working Poet Radio Show (2015 - 2017). She currently serves as a program coordinator for Miami Book Fair, poetry editor for Hyphen Magazine, and is on the advisory board for the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Faculty Fiction Writer: Lee Matalone Lee Matalone's debut novel, HOME MAKING is forthcoming from Harper Perennial (Winter 2020). She writes about death and loss for The Rumpus. Her fiction has been featured in The Offing, Denver Quarterly Review, Hobart, Joyland, Jellyfish Review, Nat. Brut, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, crag, Bridge Eight, the Austin Review, and Cosmonauts Avenue. Her essays and reporting have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the National, and Flavorwire, among others. She has been a contributor to the Tin House, Bread Loaf, and Sewanee writers conferences, and has been awarded residencies at the Arctic Circle program, Pocoapoco and Art Farm. Faculty Non-Fiction Writer: Cinelle Barnes Cinelle Barnes is a memoirist, essayist, and educator from Manila, Philippines, and is the author of MONSOON MANSION: A MEMOIR (Little A, 2018) and MALAYA: ESSAYS ON FREEDOM (Little A, 2019), and the editor of a forthcoming anthology of essays about the American South (Hub City Press, 2020). Her work has received fellowships and grants from VONA, Kundiman, the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund, and the Lowcountry Quarterly Arts Grant. Barnes was a WILLA: Women Writing the American West Awards screener and a 2018-19 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards juror, and is the 2018-19 writer-in-residence at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC, where she and her family live. Note: Cinelle is unable to give manuscript critiques for nonfiction. Critiques in this genre will be with another nonfiction instructor. About Manuscript Critiques For a $50 fee you will get a thirty-minute private session with one of our faculty members. For manuscript critiques: after you register, please email ten pages of prose or five poems by June 21 to [email protected]. Critiques are available in fiction and poetry. (Please note, Cinelle Barnes is unable to give manuscript critiques for her nonfiction class.)