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    Short Film about Sy and The Sun

    Portland, Oregon–based video-production company Voxity profiled Sun founder and editor Sy Safransky, who has persisted in the world of independent publishing for nearly fifty years?

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    July 17, 2020
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    Two Sun contributors — Jaquira Díaz and T Kira Madden — were selected as finalists in the category for Best Lesbian Memoir/Biography

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    December 17, 2014
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    July 3, 2013
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    Three essays published in The Sun were listed as “notable” in The Best American Essays 2012, edited by David Brooks.

    October 2, 2012

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