Monthly Archives: June 2020

Sunspot Summer Edition 2020

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Sunspot Lit’s second edition of the year is now available. Thanks to our contributors for sending exceptional artwork, fiction, and essays about the pandemic (among other standout pieces). This quarter’s cover art comes from Hediana Utarti. This sixty-year-old API immigrant came to the US in 1986 to study political science. After graduating, she found more purpose in her continuing role at the San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter (sfaws.org).

Download your edition for free on the website.

Remember that we’ll select as many pieces as possible for the annual print edition. This year, we’re adding artwork to the print edition to further support our contributors. Keep an eye out as fall approaches for more information on contributors, pub dates, and more.

Water Stewardship and Aboriginal Communities

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Laine Cunningham’s reflections on what Australian Aboriginal folktales can tell modern readers, entitled Seven Sisters, was quoted in Pernille Ingildsen’s Water Stewardship.
Ingildsen’s work addresses true sustainability for our planet’s water resources, and takes a holistic approach to generate lasting change.
The work is out now from The International Water Association. The print edition is available from IWP for £60, or from Barnes & Noble for $90.
An open-access ebook can be found here.
Interested in reading Cunningham’s book? Available in a full-color illustrated gift edition, black and white enhanced edition or, of course, as an ebook.

Why authors and artists in developing countries are so disadvantaged

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Marion Grace Woolley, author and piano maker, lives in Rwanda. She’s posted an interesting commentary on YouTube.

Why authors and artists in developing countries are so disadvantaged

Link here to view, comment, and learn.

Closing soon: $100 for 100 Words or 1 Artwork Contest

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Sunspot Lit offers $100 cash and publication for one winner, and the chance to be published as a finalist.

For this contest, all forms of prose are accepted: poetry, plays, stories, essays, memoirs, travel pieces, opinions, rants…just keep it to 100 words or less.
Artists are also welcome to submit. Instead of submitting 100 words, utilize a title of up to 10 words for your photo, digital art, painting, or other work. All art entries will be considered for use on the cover of the next edition, so you might end up with the stipend offered for cover artwork. (And yes, if you win and are used on the cover, you’ll be paid twice.)
Submit as many times as you like. One piece per submission. The fee to enter is $5, and goes to support the magazine, stipends for contributors, and other expenses. Contest ends on June 30, 2020.