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Scuppernong Editions is very excited to announce the acquisition of Ashley Lumpkin’s multi-genre untitled memoir, scheduled for publication in the Summer of 2024.

Ashley Lumpkin is a Georgia-raised, Carolina-based writer, editor, actor, and educator. She is the author of five poetry collections: {} At First Sight, Second Glance, Terrorism and Other Topics for Tea, #AshleyLumpkin, and Genesis. Her book “I Hate You All Equally.“, is a collection of conversations from her years as a classroom teacher. A lover of performance as well as the written word, she has been a competing member of the Bull City Slam Team since 2015 and currently serves as its coach. She is one-fifth (and only Slytherin member) of the Big Dreams Collective and currently serves as a member-at-large on the board of the North Carolina Poetry Society.


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I Ain’t Resisting

The City of Greensboro and the Killing of Marcus Smith

by Ian McDowell

In September of 2018, Marcus Deon Smith, a Black man who had committed no crime, died in the custody of the Greensboro Police Department. His death is eventually ruled a homicide.

Ian McDowell explores the narrative the City of Greensboro put forth around the death of Marcus Smith, how that narrative was challenged by citizens first, then lawyers, and how the controversy over Smith’s death played out on the city streets, in City Council meetings, in the press, and in the courts, for years after his death.

Often lauded as ‘a bubble of blue’ in a red state, Greensboro was home to one of the first Civil Rights sit-ins in 1960, as well as the 1979’s Greensboro Massacre, in which Neo-Nazis and the KKK killed five members of the Communist Workers Party. The Marcus Smith case brought to light long standing issues involving the use of force, accountability, and the responsibility of elected officials to respond to concerns within their community.

I Ain’t Resisting reveals how citizens can resist the narratives that arise to justify a needless death.

Award winning reporter Ian McDowell wrote over fifty articles about the police homicide of Marcus Smith, and has written about the case for The Assembly and The Police Misconduct Civil Rights Law Review. He has lived in Greensboro for four decades.

Trade Paperback 320 pages ISBN 978-1-959104-01-8 $20

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Scuppernong Editions is interested in

three types of books:

Literary hybrid memoir, that is, memoir that blends genres or brings a different set of ideas to the memoir form;

Books about contemporary political, social and cultural issues in North Carolina;

Reprints of forgotten or underappreciated books with commentary

by contemporary writers.

If your work fits one of these categories, pitch us at scuppernongeditions.com