@TheSunMagazine

Come for the personal writing, stay for the breathtaking photography. Fifty years of independent publishing.

 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Joined October 2009
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Happy Publication Day to @anna_gazmarian, MFA '20 (Nonfiction)! Her memoir, DEVOUT: A MEMOIR OF DOUBT, is out today from @simonschuster! 🎉 bookshop.org/p/books/devout-…
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Thanks to Staci Kleinmaier for editorial wizardry and @anna_gazmarian for asking me to write about witchcraft. It’s a mf honor to be in the pages of @TheSunMagazine CW: s*x, mention of rape, witchcraft thesunmagazine.org/issues/57…

Kissing Strangers in the Street

Afterward I checked my phone. There were a dozen messages from three of my girlfriends who knew where I was. Like a chorus of Muses they asked, Are you alive? The dom was in the shower. I leaned...

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I have an essay in The Sun’s newest issue — Loving a Sport That Doesn’t Always Love Me Back, I’d love if you gave it a read. It’s about community, navigating the pickup basketball space as a trans person, proving myself, & some anger & resentment ha thesunmagazine.org/issues/57…
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My essay is online at @TheSunMagazine, and I promise it journeys toward joy and sparkle, but first I had to walk through the darkness of #ocd and a terrifying car accident that took the shine off Metallica's "Enter Sandman." Act II courtesy #AdamLambert. thesunmagazine.org/news/the-…
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Samuel Jensen@chekhovscoyote1 Mar 2024
proud to have a story in the latest issue of @TheSunMagazine. it's about renaissance fairs and what it's like when so much of the evil in the world looks like you. thanks to The Sun's staff, especially @wordshepherd for his generous editorial support. thesunmagazine.org/issues/57…

Longshanks

The elf hits me doing what feels like eighty, blowing through the light at the new intersection by the outlet mall. One of his headlights glances off mine, and he swerves on two wheels before...

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Welcome back from AWP! We are looking for flash nonfiction/fiction under 1k words. Please send to [email protected]!
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ScxWorkcrWritcs@swerwrites8 Feb 2024
Also! A reminder to please read “A Very Brutal Game” by @margosteines via @TheSunMagazine beforehand. (Or, better yet, read “Brutalities”!) thesunmagazine.org/issues/53…
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Derek Askey@derekaskey7 Feb 2024
A real pleasure to talk about @thesunmagazine with Dan Hill for the New Books Networks podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/the-sun-…

"The Sun" Magazine: A Chat with Derek Askey - New Books Network

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Mishele Maron@MisheleMaron1 Feb 2024
thesunmagazine.org/issues/57… via @thesunmagazine Thanks to the Sun magazine and their fab editorial staff, I can share this essay. When you are writing in your basement to save your life, it's difficult to imagine it will see the light.

Anger Management

Dr. B. spun a finger in the air, his signal to let the games begin. I think I called Michael a “no-good fucking loser,” a put-down one of my bosses had once leveled at me. I watched Michael’s hands...

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Contributors, please let us know if you will be participating in any panels or readings at @awpwriter!
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Courtney Kocak@courtneykocak28 Jan 2024
Always fun to read your words in PRINT and even more thrilling to appear in @TheSunMagazine - joining the company of some of my favorite writers. READ THE FLASH ESSAY ABOUT SPEAKING IN TONGUES 👀🗣️➡️
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Two excerpts from @FullerGo and Debbi Urbanski imagined very different futures for humanity in the wake of unchecked climate change. We are pleased to share online excerpts from both books. thesunmagazine.org/news/two-…

Two Possible Climate Futures

Our January 2024 issue explores causes and effects—between species, life choices, and how we care for others—subjects that were also on the minds of two Sun contributors as they wrote their new debut...

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Bethany Marcel@bethmarcel1 Nov 2023
A dream come true. I’m thrilled, honored, and still stunned that my short story “Animal Moments” is featured in the November issue of The Sun. Huge thank you to everyone @TheSunMagazine Please read and share! thesunmagazine.org/issues/57…
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Lauren Hohle's "Basements" #Fiction #Longreads via @TheSunMagazine :@LaurenHohle thesunmagazine.org/issues/57…
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L. A. Johnson@LA_Johnson_9 Jan 2024
Wow this Doug Ramspeck poem in @TheSunMagazine! Ripping this one out to keep
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Here's our latest call for submissions. Send your essays to @StaciKleinmaier!
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From 2023, what are some hard-won victories, truths that you learned, and strengths discovered that you want to carry into the new year?
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CLMP@CLMPorg29 Dec 2023
Don’t miss these new issues from @cu_hindsight @poetry_south @PonderReview @Sinister_Wisdom @SouthernHReview @thesunmagazine @suspendedmag & other great lit mags! clmp.org/news/december-2023-…

December 2023 Roundup of Member Magazines - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—publishing new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and more in December 2023.   After Dinner Conversation | December 2023...

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This year I sold and revised a memoir (out in April, please preorder!), reviewed a bunch of very gay books (all lovely!), and published an essay in @TheSunMagazine that's very close to my heart (linked below!) thesunmagazine.org/issues/56…

The End Of The World

Maybe the end of the world wasn’t fire and explosions and lawlessness and bodies in the streets. Maybe the end of the world was some smaller thing.

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