Hub City Shorts is a series of publications edited by Gabriel Bump, Mesha Maren, and M. Randal O'Wain, published by Hub City Press.

This design-forward, collectible series of small-format books celebrates short forms from new, established, and rediscovered Southern writers. Hub City Shorts will feature roughly six stories from six writers, collated by state. Our first two editions will feature South Carolina and Mississippi writers. Both editions will be published together in 2027.

With a distinctive design and collectible format, Hub City Shorts offers readers an elegant, portable way to experience the South's most compelling stories?both new and rediscovered. The books will be slim and elegant?ideal for travel, gifting, or dipping into between longer reads. Beyond this initial states project, Hub City Shorts will enable Hub City Press to accommodate hybrid forms, novellas, book-length essays, and other works outside of the standard format.

Mesha Maren is the author of the novels Sugar Run, Perpetual West, and Shae. Her short stories and essays can be read in Tin House, The Oxford American, The Guardian, Triquarterly, The Southern Review, Ecotone and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of the Practice of English at Duke University.