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That's How It Works is a vibrant collection of fiction from Hub City Press’s first thirty years, showcasing the incredible talent nurtured by this community-driven literary press.
Featuring contributions from Hub City Press authors, past Writers-in-Residence, staff, and friends, the collection spans an impressive range of voices, styles, and stories. Set across the South and nation, they share a yearning for communication and connection.
Edited by Katherine Webb-Hehn and with an introduction by Hub City Press Publisher Meg Reid, That's How It Works is both a celebration of three decades of publishing from the margins and a testament to the transformative power of community in creating literature.
Katherine Webb-Hehn is a writer, journalist, and editor. For many years, she covered justice in the South with Scalawag Magazine where her reporting was praised, published, or funded by the New York Times, the Nation, PEN America, the Atlantic, Longreads, The Marguerite Casey Foundation, and occasionally even her own family. As an editor with Hub City Press, Katherine works with writers from acquisition through development to publication. At home in Birmingham, Alabama, she's the mother of two young children.
Meg Reid is the Executive Director of Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she finds and champions new and overlooked voices from the American South, including Carter Sickels, Drew Lanham, Ashley M. Jones, and Anjali Enjeti. An editor and book designer, her essays have appeared online in outlets like DIAGRAM, Oxford American, and The Rumpus. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she served as Assistant Editor of the literary magazine Ecotone and worked for the literary imprint Lookout Books. She was a Publishers Weekly Star Watch 2021 Honoree. She loves literary nonfiction and braided essays. She lives in Spartanburg, SC
Introduction by Meg Reid
Carter Sickels, Forage
Desiree Evans, Cora Lee
Ron Rash, French I
John Lane, The Old Man and the Pool
Kelsey Ronan, The Chairs in Your Parlor
James Yeh, Two Short Stories
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, How it Works
A Comic by Julie Jarema
Kate A. McMullen, Fleas
Halle Hill, Hungry
Reyes Ramirez, Religious Group Formed Around Hurricanes Protest Infrastructure Improvements
George Singleton, Show-and-Tell
Christine McSwain, Imagine Explosions Here
Andrew Seigrist, Nothing for the Journey
Michel Stone, The Pickers
Scott Gloden, Tennessee
Emily Pease, Church Retreat, 1975
Gray Wolfe Lajoie, Aisle Six
Thomas Pierce, The Immortal Milkshake