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Award-Winning Writers
Congratulations to Kristopher Jansma, Mark Gozonsky, and the other authors whose work has been recognized.
July 5, 2021Discounted subscriptions for students
We’re excited to announce The Sun is available through the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses [CLMP]’s Lit Mag Adoption Program.
June 17, 2021Getting The Sun to people in prison
Exchange for Change, a nonprofit organization that offers writing courses in prisons and facilitates letter exchanges between incarcerated students and writers on the outside, will release an anthology of writing and artwork by incarcerated individuals, their family members, and others.
June 7, 2021Your support meant a lot to us this past year
Thank you for making our work possible.
For more than forty-five years, readers like you have kept this magazine in circulation. Your support makes our work possible. Here are just a few ways donations made a difference over the past year.
May 7, 2021
What Poetry Can Do
Kathryn Jordan on Writing, Inspiration, and Life after Cancer
Since the pandemic lockdown began, Kathryn Jordan has treated her time like a sabbatical: taking morning hikes in the woods, playing piano, and focusing on her writing. She met with Sun Editorial Assistant Staci Kleinmaier via video call to discuss writing and her poem “My Late Breast” in our April 2021 issue. This poem is Jordan’s first publication in The Sun.
April 5, 2021Then & Now
Feeling connected, struggling to adapt, restoring peace through justice
Maia Szalavitz and Joseph Rodríguez from 2017, Readers Write from 2012, Marshall Rosenberg from 2003, and Duncan Moran from 1992
March 12, 2021An Update on Our Paywall
Beginning in April, subscribers will once again need to sign in to read The Sun online. Educators and organizations that have been using The Sun’s online selections during the pandemic and need continued access, please contact us.
March 10, 2021The Life of Saint James
At one point I had over three hundred pen pals, many of them Sun readers who supported me with letters and stamps. They offered money, but the state would routinely take 60 percent, and I would rather starve than give them that; so I asked only for books and postage. Starting a literary career behind bars requires heroic amounts of U.S. postage.
Amy Louise Ouzoonian • March 5, 2021
Then & Now
Taking drugs, embracing change, walking without a map
Readers Write from 1991, Duncan Moran and Joe Malone from 1992, Sy Safransky from 2014
February 15, 2021The Best Thing About Fiction
A Q&A With John Holman
“White Folks,” a short story in our September 2020 issue, was written by John Holman, who grew up in Durham, North Carolina, just a few miles from The Sun’s editorial offices in Chapel Hill. Holman was preparing to teach an online class at Georgia State University for the first time due to the pandemic when Sun Associate Editor Finn Cohen caught up with him.
By Finn Cohen • September 22, 2020
