Penultimate Press

Coming Soon from PenUltimate Press, Inc.
In the late 1880s, freed slave Isaiah T. Montgomery dreamed of an all-Black self sustaining community where men and women could work and live and thrive through their own means. His dream became Mound Bayou, Mississippi, the first all-Black self-determined US community which thrived for more than 40 years until the fall of cotton prices caused economic turmoil. Read author Tullia Hamilton's compelling story of Mound Bayou and the relocation of many of its families to the St. Louis area during the Great Migration. Scheduled for publication Summer 2011.

God's Acres Wins 2011 Oklahoma Book Award
Author David Gerard's funny, yet earnest, story of life on a farm outside St. Joseph, Missouri in the 1950s was named the fiction winner for 2011 by the Oklahoma Center for the Book. Gerard, a former newspaper editor turned freelance writer and artist lives and works in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He spent his youth in St. Joe, Missouri.