Launch Event for Growing Great Readers June 23

Hub City Writers Project, together with BirthMatters and The Adolescent Family Life Center, is pleased to announce the launch of a new program: Growing Great Readers.

Growing Great Readers is a book drive initiative aimed at new mothers aged 24 and younger and their infant children. Modeled after Dolly Parton's hugely successful Imagination Library, the program donates books on a monthly basis to participating families to assure ready access to quality picture and board books aimed at children ages one to three.  

On Thursday, June 23, from 4:00- 5:30 p.m., the three organizations will host a reception at Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg featuring Storytime with retired children's librarian Bea Bruce at 4:00pm, crafts, and cookies and lemonade. The event is free and open to the public.

Upcoming Event

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Jennifer Bartell Boykin, Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC

April 25, 2024, 6:00 PM
Join the South Carolina State Library's Center for the Book for our next Speaker at the Center Author Talk, featuring Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC, Jennifer Bartell Boykin. She will discuss her debut book of poetry, Traveling Mercy, and her upcoming release, Only Believe (The Word Works), a winner of the 2023 Hilary Tham Capital Collection.