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Announcements

05.07.2012

Two essays first published in The Sun have been awarded the Pushcart Prize, which honors exceptional writing from America’s small presses. Click here for details.

03.20.2012

We need a full-time managing editor at The Sun, a nonprofit, ad-free magazine in its thirty-ninth year of publication. This position is in our editorial office in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Click here for details.

02.07.2012

The Sun will host a gathering on October 26–October 28 in Big Sur, California. Click here for details.

02.07.2012

The Sun will host a gathering on June 1–3 in Rowe, Massachusetts. Click here for details.

01.03.2012

Would copies of The Sun brighten up the magazine rack of your local bookstore, coffee shop, co-op, or other hangout? Click here to let us know.

11.21.2011

Authors include Poe Ballantine, John Frank, Louis B. Jones, Marjorie Kemper, Nikolina Kulidžan, Lee Strickland, and Lad Tobin. Click here for a list of the selections.

The Sun Interview

In Their Backyard Robert D. Bullard On The Politics Of Where We Put Our Trash

by Rebekah Cowell

“Suppose the people who generate the most waste had to have the most facilities in their communities? Rich people would be forced to reduce, reuse, and recycle if they didn’t want to live in the presence of rotting garbage!”

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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Feral City

by Alison Luterman

Putting compassion to the test

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The Hurricane

by Sparrow

Facing disaster from a double-wide trailer

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Faithful Over A Few Things

by Tarn Wilson

Age doesn’t matter

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Fiction

We Will Sing All Six Verses

by Linda McCullough Moore

“I’m back in my hometown, and as the chill November wind blows steady on this gray morning, I’m wandering the cemetery, looking for dead relatives. I haven’t found a single one. Perhaps they have lost interest and moved on. It is the sort of thing people in my family might well do.”

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Poetry

My Totally Awesome World

by SeSe Geddes
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Readers Write

Whispering

by Our Readers

Schoolyard taunts, late-night prayers, shameful confessions

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