We’re looking for essays that explore music with a memoiristic lens. Tell us about your personal experiences and identity with music. DM us!
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Come for the personal writing, stay for the breathtaking photography. Fifty years of independent publishing.
- If you’ve ever wondered what our workspaces look like, here’s a photo of senior editor Andrew Snee’s cat Alva atop a stack of manuscripts. Send us photos of your pets that keep you company.
- What are your favorite literary magazines who feature emerging writers?
- Our editors are looking for queer narratives about finding community. We’re only reading completed essays. DM us!
- Welcome back from AWP! We are looking for flash nonfiction/fiction under 1k words. Please send to [email protected]!
- Send us the essays that you’re afraid of your family reading. Writing that confronts fear and shame. DM us.
- "In healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other." — Wendell Berry Sunbeams, March 2019
- What books do we need to pay attention to that are coming out in 2023?
- The Sun has lifted our paywall. In this moment of isolation, we wanted to share stories about what connects us, the challenges we face, and the moments we rise to meet them. Read the current issue or browse our 45-year archive by topic, section, or year: thesunmagazine.org/read.
- What is the best piece of writing advice that you’ve received?
- Can you help out our new editorial outreach coordinator?I’m looking for a short stories and personal essays for @TheSunMagazine that will make me laugh. I need a break from reading things that make me cry. (Although, I’m alright with laughing and crying simultaneously.) Message me!
- We’ve seen people withdraw submissions due to small typos. Everyone makes mistakes and typos will not keep you from getting published in our magazine. Please direct your stress to analyzing the mysterious @submittable statuses instead.
- Show us what’s on your writing desk right now.
- Aside from sending out some acceptances today, the most exciting part of our Friday is reading all the tweets about Prince Harry’s memoir where people have mistaken us for the British tabloid. We offer no opinions.
