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The annual Hub City Creative Writing Prizes have been awarded to Amanda Burgess in poetry and Ned Barrett in essay. The Hub City Writers Project awards both Spartanburg writers full scholarships to the week-long Wildacres Writing Workshop in Little Switzerland, N.C. this summer. The annual contest is sponsored for the tenth year by the Hub City Writers Project and is open to Spartanburg County adults.
Burgess is a 2006 graduate of Converse College pursuing a low-residency MFA degree in creative writing from Fairleigh-Dickinson University. She works at Converse as a resident counselor and chaplain's assistant. Of her poems, the judge wrote: "The diction in each of the poems is just right, and the carefully selected words provide a tautness that is remarkable."
Ned Barrett, program manager in the Spartanburg office of Upstate Forever, won the prize in creative nonfiction for a piece entitled "That Day with Tank," in which he describes his relationship with a white rhinoceros while he was a keeper at Hollywild Animal Park. "There is a richness of observation and a kind of philosophical subtext in this story," the judge wrote. Second place in essay went to journalist Steven Jones of Boiling Springs, and third to Bertice Robinson of Roebuck. Second and third place winners receive full or partial scholarships to Hub City's Writing in Place conference Aug. 1-3. The judge in the poetry contest was Nancy Taylor of Greenville. The judge for the essay contest was Dot Jackson of Six Mile. Hub City publishes two kinds of books: those that educate people about the place they live, and literary works (poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction) by emerging authors in this region. The organization generally publishes two to three titles a year but has published as many as four and as few as one. For more information, visit www.hubcity.org. (Image provided by Hub-Bub.)
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Second place in poetry went to Cameron Harr, vice president of Tate Metal Works in Roebuck, and third to Gail McCullough from Spartanburg, a Queens University MFA graduate.
