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08.27.2010
Join us for a reading and reception to celebrate the release of our new collection of Sunbeams, Paper Lanterns: More Quotations from the Back Pages of The Sun. Click here for details.
06.15.2010
Jane Churchon's essay “The Dead Book” [February 2009] has been selected to appear in The Best American Essays 2010 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Click here for details.
06.08.2010
Two selections first published in The Sun have been awarded the Pushcart Prize, which honors exceptional writing from America’s small presses. Click here for details.
04.21.2010
The Sun will host a gathering on October 22–24 in Big Sur, California. Click here for details.
04.15.2010
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The Sun Interview
by Leslee Goodman
“When I’m in a place where I’m able to hear for a thousand square miles – such as in the Kalahari Desert – that’s transformative. In silence like that we remember our genetic roots, our purpose, and our connection to all things.”
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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
by Lad Tobin
A father who won’t talk and a mother who won’t stop
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by Nikolina Kulidžan
A woman returns to the divided city of her birth
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Fiction
by Josie Charlotte Jackson
“Normally I wouldn’t have found them, because I am an exceptionally lazy housekeeper.”
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by Theresa Williams
“Immediately after the funeral, Floreta fled for the coast.”
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Poetry
by Anna Belle Kaufman
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Readers Write
by Our Readers
A teenager’s nose job, a grandmother’s hair, a boy who loves dresses
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