In The Sad Stays, Ashley Lumpkin weaves prose and poetry, intake form and erasure, screenplay and hymn, to explore the experience of living with mental illness. At turns humorous and heart-rending, this inventive memoir presents a portrait of bipolar disorder beyond its popular misconceptions. Lumpkin invites us into her conversations with doctors, therapists, and friends, and we witness the effects the illness has on her relationships, both romantic and platonic. She wrestles with questions of identity, faith, and responsibility in the face of a disease she can barely control.The Sad Stays offers us a new, lyrical lens through which to comprehend a widely stigmatized and misunderstood illness.
“I cannot promise this is exactly how it happened, but you can trust this is exactly how it felt.”
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. I Ain’t Resisting reveals how citizens can resist the narratives that arise to justify a needless death.
Trade Paperback $20 320 pgs.
ISBN: 978-1-959104-01-8
‘With accountability, reflection, and grace, the coauthors recount the searing stories of their lives before prison and where things went wrong. They reveal their extraordinary efforts to grow and to build meaningful lives, even under a death sentence.”
-Sister Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking
$20.00 308 pgs.
ISBN: 978-1-7329328-6-9
“Starkly beautiful and infinitely true, Disgust is a deep and brilliant gaze into all it truly means to feel, to be human, to love.”
-Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone
“Stephanie Grants moves with unusual grace between the universal and the highly specific, revealing startling truths about love and fear and anger and pain and redemption.”
-Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree
$18.00 170 pgs.
ISBN: 978-1-7329328-5-2
“To read Laurie Stone is to experience a present tense intimacy with a lusty, testy, ebullient, scintillating mind, a woman’s mind, a woman who remembers the summer of ’68 and is living, right now, in this instant, through the Trump years…”
-Diane Seuss, frank:sonnets
“Everything is Personal is a galvanic account of our era, a trumpet blare aimed at sleepwalkers…A voice unlike any other, she’s a fearless thinker in an age submerged in fear.”
-Emily Nussbaum, I Like to Watch
$18.00 180 pgs
ISBN: 978-1-7329328-2-1
“The Tarboro Three stands with books like Timothy Tyson’s Blood Done Sign My Name as a raw and honest mix of memoir and history, reminding us of William Faulkner. The past is not dead. It is not even past. This is a book America needs now.”
-Liza Wieland, Paris, 7 A.M.
$18.00 108 pgs.
ISBN: 978-1-7329328-0-7
“Given the option to consider these dialogues or eat a gyro, watch The Princess Diaries, and go to bed, I chose the latter. But if you need to pick a lens through which to view Greensboro, this is it. My one criticism is that I am not featured in it.”
-Adriana Vaca
$15.00 82 pgs
