2024-12-13T00:17:28-05:00 2023-12-31 990 2023-01-01 561187623 THE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY % ROBERT BOWERS SUNP 9199425282 109 N ROBERSON ST CHAPEL HILL NC 275162332 Robert Bowers Publisher 2024-12-13 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z ROBERT BOWERS 109 N ROBERSON ST CHAPEL HILL NC 275162332 2755614 false X www.thesunmagazine.org X 1977 NC THE MAGAZINE IS AN AD-FREE MONTHLY MAGAZINE WHICH PUBLISHES AN ECLECTIC MIX OF PERSONAL ESSAYS INTERVIEWS FICTION POETRY AND PHOTOGRAPHS. 4 3 17 0 0 0 736124 781107 2040782 1948369 8934 26138 0 0 2785840 2755614 0 0 0 0 1561513 1611501 0 0 100022 1801627 1590281 3363140 3201782 -577300 -446168 2884454 1439755 58216 56690 2826238 1383065 THE MAGAZINE IS AN AD-FREE MONTHLY MAGAZINE WHICH PUBLISHES AN ECLECTIC MIX OF PERSONAL ESSAYS INTERVIEWS FICTION POETRY AND PHOTOGRAPHS. false false 2556737 0 0 Founded in 1974 The Sun is one of North Carolinas oldest and most widely read literary magazines. More than 40,000 subscribers enjoy our interviews personal essays fiction poetry and photography each month and an additional 10,000 magazines are distributed to newsstands in the United States and Canada. The Sun is reader-supported and free of advertising and has been publishing for fifty years. Our goal is to publish writing and photography that fosters compassion through greater awareness of our shared experience. We want to offer both established and emerging artists an opportunity to risk a closer examination of the truth and to reach a wider audience. Writing from The Sun has won the Pushcart Prize been featured in Best American Essays and Best American Short Story anthologies and has been on National Public Radio. Upon awarding The Sun its independent press award for best writing Utne called the magazine an "intimate forum where some of the finest contemporary writers share their most polished and provocative prose." In addition to publishing a monthly magazine The Sun has also published eight books. Paper Lanterns is eclectic collection of quotes from the back of the magazine. In The Mysterious Life of the Heart contributors explore the enigma of intimacy and relationships. Our Best of The Sun anthologies feature the finest writing from the magazines first two decades. Four in the Morning and Many Alarm Clocks bring together founder and editor emeritus Sy Safrankys best essays and journal entries. And Sunbeams our first collection of quotations offers ten years worth of inspiring words from The Sun. We have an ongoing commitment to provide free subscriptions to libraries community colleges and prisons throughout the country. In addition we regularly provide free subscriptions to prisoners who write to request one. Our hope is to reach readers who are unable to afford the magazine or who live in areas where literary resources are scare. In 2023 we were able to provide over 1200 subscriptions to community colleges prisoners prison libraries and other non-profit organizations. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2556737 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 50 0 true 17 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false 4 3 true false false false false false false true false false false true true true false false true true false false X X TAXPAYER 9199425282 109 N ROBERSON ST CHAPEL HILL NC 275162332 Seymour Safransky President 40.00 0.00 X X X 75097 0 0 Lewis Lipsitz Vice President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Cindy Calderwood Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Norma Safransky Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Bowers Publisher 60.00 0.00 X X X 197700 0 0 272797 0 0 0 false true false 1 0 0 0 0 781107 0 0 781107 Subscriptions 511120 1878192 1878192 0 0 Circulation 511120 18964 18964 0 0 Books 511120 17389 17389 0 0 Submittable 511120 29925 29925 0 0 Back Issues 511120 3899 3899 0 0 0 0 0 0 1948369 26138 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2755614 1948369 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 289125 216844 72281 0 1020118 765089 255029 0 0 0 0 0 27271 20453 6818 0 177062 132797 44265 0 97925 73444 24481 0 0 0 0 0 5985 0 5985 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 186710 86688 0 100022 91082 45541 45541 0 97337 97337 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21715 0 21715 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2775 0 2775 0 0 0 0 0 76838 38419 38419 0 12167 0 12167 0 Printing 545109 545109 0 0 Fulfillment 43557 43557 0 0 Postage and Freight 242742 241261 1481 0 Production 250198 250198 0 0 14066 0 0 0 3201782 2556737 530957 100022 0 0 0 0 558243 219166 1798992 621144 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1240903 641458 526419 599445 0 0 0 0 0 0 800 0 0 0 2884454 1439755 58216 56690 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58216 56690 X 2826238 1383065 0 0 2826238 1383065 2884454 1439755 X -446168 0 0 0 -346630 -650375 X false false false X 828250 910647 835697 736124 781107 4091825 2403889 2138222 2312632 2023465 1948369 10826577 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3232139 3048869 3148329 2759589 2729476 14918402 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14918402 37381 12311 10142 8934 0 68768 0 0 0 0 0 0 37381 12311 10142 8934 0 68768 4820 2032 0 0 0 6852 6583 13968 4202 0 0 24753 3280923 3077180 3162673 2768523 2729476 15018775 0.9933 0.9891 0.0046 0.0060 X Part III - Line 12 | Year:, Amount:, Description:| 2019, 6583.0000, Miscellaneous receipts royalties list rental| 2020, 13968Miscellaneous receipts royalties list rental| 2021, 4202Miscellaneous receipts royalties list rental| 2022, | 2023, | RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 45000 45000 790754 350875 439879 365474 255170 110304 39675 35413 4262 599445 false false false false false false false false false Seymour Safransky President 91425 0 0 0 0 0 2719 0 0 0 94144 0 0 0 Robert Bowers Publisher 197700 0 0 0 0 0 3120 0 0 0 200820 0 0 0 Part VI, Line 2 Sy Safransky Chairman is married to Dr. Norma Safransky board member. 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