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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 15, 2024
STILLHOUSE PRESS TO PUBLISH SAD GROWNUPS, DEBUT STORY COLLECTION FROM AMY STUBER:
AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW
FAIRFAX, VA (February 2024)—Stillhouse Press announces the October 2024 publication of Amy Stuber’s short story collection, Sad Grownups.
In her powerful debut, Stuber, a widely-published writer of short fiction, explores the search for joy in a dying world, where being an adult means performing narrow versions of acceptability on repeat. Equal parts sad, funny, and poignant, each story is a small roadmap of release from the strictures of American consumerism, gender roles, and the strain of living through climate crisis.
The stories in this collection piece together a cast of outsiders, many of whom connect more fully to places and ideas than to other people. In their escapist journeys, these characters still find moments of human connection, liberation, and even happiness.
According to Stuber, this collection is “for people who’ve been sad and tried not to be.” Stillhouse book editor Rebecca Burke adds, “How are we going about our lives amidst so much dysfunction, and what is that doing to us? Sad Grownups explores how the most pressing issues of our time are affecting our basic humanity.”
Sad Grownups is available now for preorder: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/sad-grownups.
Amy Stuber’s writing has appeared in the New England Review, Flash Fiction America, Ploughshares, The Idaho Review, Cincinnati Review, Triquarterly, American Short Fiction, Joyland, and elsewhere. She’s the recipient of the Missouri Review’s 2023 William Peden Prize in fiction, winner of the 2021 Northwest Review Fiction Prize, and runner-up for the 2022 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize. Her work received a special mention in Pushcart Prize XLIV, appeared on the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2021, has been nominated for Best of the Net, and appears in Best Small Fictions 2020 and 2023. She has a PhD in English and has taught college writing and worked in online education for many years. https://www.amystuber.com/.
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