The Sun

The Sun in Massachusetts

2013-05-17T13:03:55Z

The retreat is now full. If you would like to place your name on the waiting list, please contact Rowe at (413) 339-4954 or info@rowecenter.org. You can also add your name to the waiting list via Rowe’s website.

We invite you to join Sun authors Gillian Kendall, Alison Luterman, Lee Martin, and Sparrow, along with editor and publisher Sy Safransky, for a lively weekend of writing, conversation, and inspiration. The gathering will be held at Rowe, a retreat center situated on fifty acres of lush woodland in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts.

A weekend with The Sun in California

2013-05-14T01:01:01Z

The Sun will host a gathering on October 25–27 in Big Sur, California. Click here for details.

Joyous Blues God For A Day

2013-05-01T01:01:01Z

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories by Saint James Harris Wood

Belting it out behind bars

Mister Kim

2013-05-01T01:01:01Z

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories by Brian Doyle

Behind the counter

Sparky

2013-05-01T01:01:01Z

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories by Heather Sellers

Flirting with disaster

Sundays With Hugo

2013-05-01T01:01:01Z

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories by Ruth L. Schwartz

Different worlds, common tasks

Swept Under The Rug - Ai-jen Poo On The Plight Of Domestic Workers

2013-05-01T01:01:01Z

The Sun Interview by Anna Blackshaw

“Domestic workers . . . know when one of their employers would rather spend four hundred dollars on a pair of shoes than pay them a living wage, because they watch it happen. It’s a brutal reminder of inequality.”

Taking Care

2013-05-01T01:01:01Z

Fiction by Linda McCullough Moore

What to do about Mother

The God Of Numbers and Eve, After

2013-05-01T01:01:01Z

Poetry by Danusha Laméris

What Feathers Might Do

2013-05-01T01:01:01Z

Fiction by Caryn Cardello

Six girls and a box full of chickens

Winging It

2013-05-01T01:01:01Z

Readers Write by Our Readers

In a classroom, at a work meeting, with a drug-addicted son

Sunbeams

2013-04-30T11:15:52Z

When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you’re rich. If your name is on your desk, you’re middle-class. If your name is on your shirt, you’re poor.

Rich Hall

Accept no substitutes!

2013-03-27T01:01:01Z

Some of our subscribers recently received a fraudulent renewal offer asking them to renew their subscription to The Sun for the price of $111. Do not send them any money. Click here for details.

The Sun in California

2013-02-26T12:00:14Z

We invite you to join Sun authors Ellen Bass, David Brendan Hopes, Steve Kowit, Frances Lefkowitz, and Cary Tennis, along with editor and publisher Sy Safransky, for a lively weekend of writing, conversation, and inspiration. The gathering will be held at Esalen, a retreat center situated on twenty-seven acres of spectacular Big Sur coastline.

A weekend with The Sun in North Carolina

2013-02-20T01:01:01Z

The Sun will host a gathering on April 26–28 in Little Switzerland, North Carolina. Click here for details.

Writing retreats in 2013

2013-02-15T01:01:01Z

Join Sun authors, readers, and staff for a weekend of writing, conversation, and inspiration. The magazine will host three gatherings this year. Scholarships are available, and registration has opened. Click here for details.

The Sun is hiring

2013-01-15T01:01:01Z

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.

A correction and an apology

2013-01-08T01:01:01Z

The Sun owes an apology to David Krieger, Leslee Goodman, and our readers. Click here to read more.

Essays from The Sun receive honorable mention in The Best American Essays 2012

2012-10-02T01:01:01Z

Three essays published in The Sun were listed as “notable” in The Best American Essays 2012, edited by David Brooks. Click here for details.

Writing from The Sun wins the Pushcart Prize

2012-05-07T01:01:01Z

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.

Does The Sun shine in your neighborhood?

2012-01-03T01:01:01Z

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.

Writing from The Sun receives Honorable Mention in the Best American Series and The Pushcart Prize Anthology

2011-11-21T01:01:01Z

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.