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National Short Story Month: Staff Selections
For National Short Story Month, we hope you’ll enjoy these fiction selections from The Sun’s archive. We’ve lifted our paywall during this period of isolation, so please feel free to share them with others.
May 14, 2020We’ve Lifted Our Paywall
We have removed the paywall on our website, so that subscribers and nonsubscribers alike have access to current issues, as well as our complete archives going back to 1974.
April 1, 2020Mission Creek Festival update
The Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City will be rescheduled.
March 9, 2020Songs from Erin McReynolds’s Essay “Train Songs”
Erin McReynolds’s essay “Train Songs” appears in our February 2020 issue, and we thought readers might appreciate hearing the songs she mentions in the piece.
February 18, 2020A Certain Type of Magic
A Q&A with Gary Jackson
Jackson’s poem in our February 2020 issue, “After the Reading,” details a fraught exchange after a poetry reading. Over e-mail he discussed listening to (and writing, and editing, and loving) poetry, and his affection for superhero comics -- especially the bad guys.
Derek Askey • February 18, 2020We aren’t attending AWP 2020
We’ve made the difficult decision not to attend this year’s AWP Conference in San Antonio.
February 13, 2020Listen to Aimee Nezhukumatathil Read Brian Doyle’s “Joyas Voladoras”
From our 2019 tribute to Brian Doyle in Portland, Oregon.
January 22, 2020More on Grizzly Times
We asked Louisa Willcox and David Mattson to share a few additional resources about grizzly bears and to suggest ways readers might be able to help.
January 17, 2020Sign Up for 2020 Event Announcements
We’re taking a hiatus from our “Into the Fire” retreats this year, but we hope to see you at some other events we’re planning.
January 14, 2020Devin Murphy on Adventure, Empathy, and Learning to Open Up
Murphy says he has submitted stories to The Sun for about a decade, but this is the first we’ve published. We caught up to discuss his new story, his maritime exploits, and the most valuable lessons he learned from a mentor.
Finn Cohen • January 9, 2020
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