Booksmith, Inc.
283 Market St.
Seneca, SC
(864) 885-0872

The Happy Bookseller
4525 Forest Dr.
Columbia, SC
(800) 787-1503

The Emrys Foundation
The Emrys Foundation encourages women and minorities in the arts, including literary and visual arts, music, dance, theater and film. Founded in 1983, Emrys has sponsored music competitions and presented concerts, art exhibitions, conferences, creative writing awards, poetry workshops, readings, and lectures.

Hub City Writers Project
The Hub City Writers Project of Spartanburg, South Carolina, is a non-profit independent press and literary arts organization which publishes place-based books and sponsors readings, writing seminars, and contests.

Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts
LILA's mission is to nurture and promote the literary arts in South Carolina. It is dedicated to developing programs that enrich the area's literary communities and to diversifying the opportunities open to students, writers, and readers. It approaches this goal by connecting, educating, and promoting writers and readers at every stage of development, from the novice to the professional.

The Poetry Society of South Carolina
Supporting the reading, writing, study, and enjoyment of poetry, the Poetry Society of South Carolina is a membership organization offering readings by nationally known poets, an annual Yearbook of winning poems, contests, and more. The organization is also responsible for the Skylark Prize, a competition for SC high school students.

South Carolina Arts Commission
Works to develop a thriving arts environment, which is essential to quality of life, education, and economic vitality for all South Carolinians. Its website lists an arts events calendar.

South Carolina Center for the Book
The South Carolina Center for the Book is the South Carolina Affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book and is a cooperative project of the South Carolina State Library, the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, and the Humanities Council SC. The Center celebrates South Carolina's rich literary heritage and brings public attention to the importance of books, writers and reading.

South Carolina Poetry Initiative
The Poetry Initiative is a statewide organization that works with libraries, museums, schools, colleges, community organizations, and various other entities to promote and celebrate South Carolinians' reading, writing and performance of poetry.

South Carolina Writers Workshop
A literary arts organization serving both new and established writers, offering writers opportunities to improve their writing, network with others, and gain practical "How To" information about getting published.

The Southern Literature Council of Charleston (SLCC)
SLCC offers two-to-four week residencies at a writers' retreat in a historic house on Sullivan's Island, just outside of Charleston. The residencies are open to Southern writers or writers whose current work is about or set in the American South. SLCC offers assistance to both emerging and established writers; however, the focus is on those writers who are still in the early stages of their careers.

1. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers...

2. We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We...

3. Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night...

4. I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America...

5. Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history...

6. Dreams
by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams...

7. Sick
by Shel Silverstein
"I cannot go to school today"...

8. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

9. The Bells
by Edgar Allan Poe
Hear the sledges with the bells...

10. The Unknown Citizen
by W. H. Auden
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be...

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At the Public Market: Charleston, South Carolina
by Jane Kenyon
A volunteer, a Daughter of the Confederacy...

University of South Carolina
The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is for students who wish to pursue a career in creative writing and the teaching of creative writing. Students may choose among four options within the program: fiction, poetry, dramatic writing, or writing for the media.

Piccolo Spoleto Festival
The official outreach arm of Spoleto Festival USA, features "Sundown Poetry Series."

South Carolina Book Festival
An annual, weekend-long festival, featuring well-known authors, booksellers and exhibitors, and readers, coming together for two days of readings, signings, and serious book shopping--free of charge.

Apostrophe
Started in 1996 by Sheila Tombe, Apostrophe: The USCB Journal of the Arts, is a small literary arts magazine featuring new and established writers of poetry and short fiction.

Crazyhorse
The literary journal of the College of Charleston. Department of English, College of Charleston, Charleston, 29424.

Illuminations
An international literary magazine run out of Columbia College.

The South Carolina Review
Since 1968, The South Carolina Review has published fiction, poetry, interviews, unpublished letters and manuscripts, essays, and reviews from well-known and aspiring scholars and writers. They have also published special issues, such as the Virginia Woolf International, numerous fictions compilations, and issues focusing on the works of Robert Frost, Mary Gordon, Walker Percy, and James Dickey.

University of South Carolina Press
Established in 1944, it is one of the oldest publishing houses in the South and among the largest in the Southeast. The series editor is Richard Howard.

Yemassee
The literary journal of University of South Carolina, publishes poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, one-act plays, essays and interviews in two issues each year. It is run by graduate student writers and editors.