HUB101: Submission Guidelines and Hints

Classes are back in session across South Carolina, and that means a new season of arts and cultural events is about to start as well.

The Hub and its popular “subsidiary” Arts Daily are here to make you aware of all the great South Carolina arts news and events. While S.C. Arts Commission staff curate both, content is also largely driven by reader submissions – particularly as it relates to events on Arts Daily.

Those of us who work in the arts sector tend to fall into one of two categories. You’re either A) a “lifer” with 10 or more years experience at, often the same but sometimes, two or three arts organizations or you’re B) brand spankin’ new. (Look, we know there’s middle ground because B’s can’t turn into A’s overnight, but this isn’t philosophy or logic and we ask that you go with it for now.) As you might have noticed with the recent spate of arts job postings on The Hub, there are several who fall into the latter category. Regardless, everyone needs a periodic refresher. Class is in session, and we welcome you to HUB101.


Got news? Submit Story.

“We’re looking for news and stories about the arts in South Carolina. Have you had a great arts experience?  Do you have a story idea about how the arts made a difference? Have you received an arts award? Has your organization issued a call for artists?  Share your news with us, and we may share it with our readers!”

Put your important news releases here: Hirings, milestone seasons, significant guest artists, prizes or awards given or received, and the like. We also take calls for art, calls for artists, calls for submissions, calls for pizza, calls for applications, job postings, and on and on. Got a new twist on something familiar? Doing something groundbreaking? Let’s have it.

The common thread here is newsworthiness. We’re a news aggregator for the arts in South Carolina. That said, believe us: we exercise editorial discretion on the regular. Not everything makes it (and there can be many reasons for that, to include lack of newsworthiness, our workload, etc.), but that doesn’t mean don’t try. If your try is newsworthy and well written, there’s a good chance we’ll help you amplify across the state and beyond. And did we mention newsworthiness?


Got events? Submit Event.

Arts Daily is the events calendar arm of The Hub. Many, many people are familiar with it because of its unique, statewide promotion component. No event is too big or too small. Sure, it needs to have an arts connection, but here are the two biggest things you need to know:

  • Please make it concise (brief!) and well written. An actual, live person reviews and edits every. single. submission. Real talk: Guess which submissions get approved?
  • And once more, with feeling: Please submit at least one month in advance and allow up to 10 working days for your listing to appear. This is the big one. You planned ahead for your event. Plan ahead for promotion. In order to make it to Arts Daily, your event needs to be submitted at least one (1) month in advance, if not before. And because of the approval process, particularly this time of year when everyone’s season starts in the same six-week window and artists and organizations are submitting all their events, we need 10 business days to get them posted.

Editorial discretion can come into play with Arts Daily, but less so than The Hub. The vast majority of submissions are approved. Answer the five W’s (and one H), slap a link and phone number on there, and give us a JPG at no greater than 1400px x 500px saved for web at at least 72dpi quality, and you’re in a good position to get your event in front of a statewide audience on the web.


Got a new spot? Submit Venue.

After four years, venue submissions are less and less common. It’s not often that new venues crop up. But it happens, and in order for an event there to be posted, we need to know about your venue.

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Ed. note: this post was updated 9 June 2022 to remove references to Arts Daily’s prior radio component.