Monthly Archives: October 2019

Sunspot’s Pushcart Prize Nominees

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Sunspot Literary Journal is dedicated to helping its contributors in every way possible. We therefore submit pieces published in our editions to various award intended to call out some of the best creative work of the year.
We are incredibly pleased to announce that the following authors have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize:

Nina Wilson / “Feeding on Men”
Max Carp / “The First Epistle to Carmelo DeAndre Jones A.K.A. Notorious”
Kayo Chang Black / “The Nikah”
Ron Pullins / “Dada’s Home”
Tiffany Promise / “Saint Magpie of Loserville”
Patricia Worth, Translator for Claudine Jacques / “Other People’s Land”

If any of their work is selected by the Pushcart committee, it will appear in the 2020 edition of Pushcart’s anthology.
We wish them every success!

Sunspot Preorders Deadline

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Priorities.jpgSunspot’s annual edition is being laid out now. The cover image is Kit Alloway’s “Priorities,” seen here. The print and electronic versions should become available at bookstores and online retailers in mid- to late November.

You can preorder copies through a dedicated form on the Submittable page or by contacting us at SunspotLit@gmail.com. Preorders will include shipping costs to US addresses.

For foreign addresses, you can add a tip on the Submittable page. Use the $15 level for a single copy. Contact us through email to order more than one copy for a single foreign address, and we’ll calculate the best postage price.

Preorders close October 31, 2019. Print sales help fund the magazine’s expenses throughout the year. Please share the preorder link or consider ordering extra copies as gifts.

Sunspot Editor’s Prize 2019

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Sunspot Literary Journal’s annual edition provides for an Editor’s Prize for one contributor. This year, the selection was contributed by Kerry Muir. “Running on Moontime,” a short play, grabbed us with its depth and humor.

Kerry received $50 and a call-out line in the annual edition. To which she said, “OMG, OMG!!!! Laine, thank you so much, that’s incredible! (Beauty pageant fluttering hands, mascara tears….)”

So, you see why we liked her piece.

Reedsy Selects Inception as 2019 Best Writing Contest

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Reedsy Best ContestReedsy, a huge freelancer’s site, selected Inception: $250 for the Best Opening as one of the Best Contests of 2019. Check it out before it closes October 31.

Keep Art Alive

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Fall 2019 Front Cover-page-0Sunspot Literary Journal publishes five times per year. Four of those editions are free digital version that are available on the website. One is their annual print edition, which is distributed to booksellers around the world.

Sunspot speaks truth to power by using the power of every voice. In their first year, they’ve produced essays by a woman writing about life in the Jim Crow South, an interview with a Ugandan forced to become a child soldier, stories about breaking free from abuse, Daliesque fiction, and art from emerging and established creators.

You can help change the world through words and art. Consider running an ad in the newsletter or magazine, purchasing a copy of the 2019 annual edition (currently available only for preorder), sending a contribution through Paypal, or filling the tip jar on Submittable.

Sunspot Issue 3 Free Download

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Once Sunspot Lit opened up to even longer works than before, writers sent in spectacular stories ranging from flash up to novella length. So, just in time for fall, the digital edition has doubled in size over the first two quarters. Thanks to all our creative contributors for making that happen!

Our dedication to opening up the journal to worldwide audiences continues with two special dual-language presentations.

First up is a story called “Other People’s Land.” Originally produced by a Tahitian publisher, here it’s presented in Fench and as an English translation. Both the author Claudine Jacques and translator Patricia Worth were instrumental in pulling together both versions as well as arranging permission from Au vent des îles.

Second is our first nonfiction piece in the form of an interview. Opwonya Innocent was born in a time of great civil unrest in Uganda. Abducted at the age of ten, he was forced to become a child soldier in a rebel force known as the Lord’s Resistance Army. Coauthor Kevin McLaughlin facilitated a conversation between Sunspot and Opwonya. The interview is presented in English and the Luo language of Opwonya’s people.

Visit Sunspot’s website to download the free edition. You can also leave a tip to help keep art alive through the Paypal link of the primary funding source, or through the Submittable tip jar.

Paying Market for Artists, Photographers

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art-1867899_1920Sunspot Literary Journal has begun paying for artwork or photos used on its cover.

The cover is selected from the pool of submissions accepted for publication every quarter.

Once a year, the magazine produces a print version. One of the pieces of art published in that year’s editions is selected as that cover. It might be one already used as a digital cover, or it might be a different one.

So, your accepted artwork has two opportunities to be selected for a cover. And yes, if the same piece is selected twice, two payments will be made.

The payment is currently $20. Sunspot will add payments for all contributors, and increase the amount of those payments, as funding grows.

Check out their website, or head over to Submittable to send in a piece of art or a photograph.