Our magazine is no longer active. Many thanks to all the writers who submitted, to our contributors, and to our readers. We loved spending time with you! This website will not disappear – we are writers too and know how upsetting it is when a litmag closes and your work disappears. We wouldn’t do that to you! Please enjoy the archives which are full of wonderful, important writing. May we all continue to read and support each other!
Charlotte Hamrick and Jamy Bond are two writers that launched SugarSugarSalt in August 2022 after seeing so many brilliant pieces of creative nonfiction (CNF) go unnoticed or unread, because of the volatile and fast moving nature of online publishing. Naz Knudsen joined the team later that year.
Our mission is to spotlight amazing CNF pieces by the genre’s best writers that readers may have missed the first time around. Writing CNF is an excavation of the heart and mind. It is not afraid to dig deep until it finds truth that resonates. We believe this discovery is possible in all essay forms: traditional, hybrid, unconventional.
We aim to lift writers up, especially underrepresented voices, and bring attention to their work. As a reader, we hope you’ll discover the unlimited power CNF has to dig through the sugar and get to the salt.
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Charlotte Hamrick
Co-Founder & Co-Editor in Chief
Charlotte’s writing and photography has been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies including the Best Small Fictions 2022, 2023, and 2025 anthologies. She’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. She is Managing Editor and columnist for Reckon Review, and was a former editor for The Citron Review, Mockingheart Review, and Barren Magazine. She lives in New Orleans. More on her Linktr.ee.
Naz Knudsen
Co-Editor in Chief
Naz is an Iranian-American writer, filmmaker, and editor. She holds an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University and an MA in Media Arts from the University of Arizona. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Mayday, Lost Balloon, Pigeonholes, and Ruby, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction. She lives in Durham and teaches digital storytelling and journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Find her on X and IG at @nazbk. https://nazknudsen.com/
Jamy Bond
Co-Founder & Co-EiC 2022-2023
Jamy’s stories and essays appear in a variety of publications, including The Rumpus, The Sun Magazine, Barren Magazine, The Forge Literary Magazine, Tiny Molecules, JMWW, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. Her work has appeared on the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. She earned an MFA from George Mason University where she co-founded So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art.
Header Image by Ali Kokab
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