“The quandary is perhaps the only real subject to write about.”
Scuppernong Editions is a North Carolina based small press that began in 2019 as an appendage of Scuppernong Books, an independent bookstore in Greensboro, NC. In 2022, the press became a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. As a non-profit press, we can take risks on books with a more non-commercial approach.
As a small press, we have three areas of interest:
Hybrid-memoir
Hybrid with anything. It could be theater, art, poetry. Who knows? We want something that reaches past the personal to the contradictory, the implausible, the unreconcilable. Take a look at Laurie Stone’s Everything is Personal: Notes on Now, or Stephanie Grant’s Disgust: A Memoir.
Reprints of obscure work with commentary
Through our Bad Penny imprint, we’re interested in re-publishing books that have fallen into obscurity or have always been obscure. We want to pair them with contemporary commentary by those who are thrilled or frustrated by these works. Think the 33 1/3 series on important albums, or the University of Texas and their Why ______ Matters series.
Social justice, political change, and environmental issues in North Carolina
This is the only state-specific area of our interest. These will be well-reported books on issues important to those living in the state. We’ve published a collection of essays by NC Death Row inmates (Inside: Voices from Death Row), and another on the death of Marcus Smith at the hands of Greensboro police (I Ain’t Resisting: The City of Greensboro and The Killing of Marcus Smith).
We’re interested in work by authors with complicated identities. We pay our authors a modest advance, author copies, and 15% royalties on books sold.
We are not currently open for submissions. That said, if you’re convinced you have something great that fits snugly into one of the above categories, we’d be interested in your one-page pitch.
Scuppernong Editions also seeks to develop a broader literary community through both local (Write Now Guilford, ongoing Open Mics) and virtual activities (see our 2024 Workshop calendar). We wish to create situations in which authors can share their skills and develop their craft. We offer one full scholarship to every workshop we present.
At Scuppernong Editions, Steve Mitchell is the General Editor.
Brian Lampkin and Andrew Saulters complete the Editorial team.
Book design by Andrew Saulters.
