Magazine · Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
The Sun
The Sun is an independent, ad-free monthly literary magazine founded in 1974 and based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Each print and online issue celebrates the splendor and heartache of being human through personal essays, short stories, interviews, poetry, and black-and-white photography. With more than 45,000 subscribers, the reader-supported nonprofit magazine seeks courageous, socially conscious writing that marries the personal and the political. Work published in The Sun has won the Pushcart Prize and has been selected for major anthologies including Best American Short Stories
Open to poets
- Magazine submissions. Monthly, until the cap is reached. Fee: $2.50 online. Pays: $200 and up, based on page length (paid upon publication). Simultaneous submissions: discouraged. Up to 5 poems.
Official site: thesunmagazine.org. Please confirm the details there before you submit.
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