About 300 magazines, of every description, are announced each year. The odds are 10 to 1 against any of them surviving.

For a little magazine without outside funding, six years is a ripe old age. THE SUN, from its beginnings as a small pamphlet circulated in Chapel Hill, has evolved into a national magazine which attracts the writing of strong-minded individuals from coast to coast.

THE SUN also prints writing by people who don’t think of themselves as writers: craftspeople, farmers, businesspeople, artists. As Daniel Lusk said on National Public Radio: