Announcements

02.12.2016

Join us for a lively weekend of writing, conversation, and inspiration in the mountains of North Carolina. Four full scholarships are available. We hope you’ll join us.

01.05.2016

Save the date for our 2016 writing retreats

We invite you to join Sun authors, along with editor and publisher Sy Safransky, for two lively weekends of writing and conversation in 2016.
Click here for details

12.29.2015

We’re hiring

The Sun is searching for a part-time manuscript reader and a full-time associate editor.
Click here for details.

07.01.2015

Readers Write Enters The Twenty-First Century

The Sun now accepts Readers Write submissions online. Click here for a list of upcoming topic deadlines. You can also mail submissions to Readers Write, The Sun, 107 N. Roberson Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516.

The Sun Interview

The Kids Are All Right David Lancy Questions Our Assumptions About Parenting

by Mark Leviton

“Parenting trends are less about what’s good for the child and more about parents’ need for affirmation. The message of my work is that parents have far less impact than they think they do.”

Night Of The Moose

by William Giraldi and Sarah Braunstein

After the crash

Twenty-Three Weeks

by Genevieve Thurtle

“Seconds before my water breaks, twenty-three weeks into my pregnancy, I roll onto my side and hoist myself out of bed. Pain has jarred me from sleep. It’s early, the morning sky still black.”