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Sundog Lit publishes writing that scorches the earth. Sundog Lit is all about what emerges from the ruins, not in what idles in the calm before the storm. Sundog Lit is blood, rusty gears, the sweat of toil, working-class, revolutionary, everyday. Sundog Lit is literature that rages.

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Contributor Q+A with Robert Long Foreman

Robert Long Foreman’s story, “Search for Supple Buns,” appears in Issue 16 of Sundog Lit. Robert is a Pushcart Prize winner with work in Crazyhorse, Agni, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. His new short story collection, I Am Here To Make Friends, is available for purchase now. You can also snag a copy of his novel, Weird Pig, here.

Tell us a little about your writing…

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Best New Poets 2020 Nominees The Sundog Lit Poetry Editors are thrilled to nominate Satya Dash's "If you came here" (Issue 16) and Marissa Davis's "Requiem for a Rabat Hammam" (Issue 15) for Best New Poets 2020.

Your Fiction Response from Sundog

By Eric Rasmussen, Fiction Editor

As stated on Sundog Lit’s website, “…we care deeply about participating in a loving, ethical, and intersectional literary community.” This is a mission we take seriously, and it leads us to continually analyze the process of writing, submitting, discussing, and publishing creative work, in hopes of discovering ways of affecting change in the literary world. It…

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Announcing Our 2019 Pushcart Nominees

We love everything we publish, but here are what our editors have deemed the very best of the best (and we’re nominating for Pushcart Prizes):

Poetry:

Aria Aber’s “The Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine”

Gaving Yuan Gao’s “Coup de Grâce”

Fiction:

Hayli Cox’s “Menarche”

Cathy Ulrich’s “Anything but the Sky”

Nonfiction:

Emrys Donaldson’s “Troubleshooting My Haptic Cock”

Amy Tien’s “for the love…

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Fun Facts about our Assistant Fiction Editors

Robyn Ritchie

Best and worst movie you’ve seen recently?

Best movie: Joker

Worst movie: Pilgrim

Favorite thing to eat for breakfast?

Potatoes and chorizo!

Books you’ve read more than once?

Lolita, Misery, and American Psycho. My total aesthetic.

Your ideal writing space?

My office at home with my candle burning and no one to bother me!

Another author’s voice you consider most in your own vein?

Th…

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Presenting Our 2019 Best of the Net Nominees!

The editors of Sundog Lit are proud to nominate the following pieces for the 2019 Best of the Net Anthology: Fiction: “The Scientific Method” by Anne Rasmussen

“Best of All Possible Worlds” by Joshua Shaw

Creative Non-fiction:

“Troubleshooting My Haptic Cock” by Emrys Donaldson

“Marginalia” by Naomi Washer

Poetry: “Self-portrait as the Wax of Icarus’ Wings” by Matthew W. Baker “Fragrant…

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Assistant Fiction Editor Opening

Sundog is adding an Assistant Fiction Editor

Sundog Lit would like to solicit the skills of someone with a passion for writing and publishing fiction.

Responsibilities include:

Reading fiction submissions, assisting in soliciting pieces, and collaborating in the selection of work for the journal

Working with Sundog staff and writers throughout the editing process

Assisting the Sundog team with…

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2019 Collaboration Contest

Writing doesn’t have to be a lonely business. Sometimes teamwork is what makes the dreamwork, so this summer we want to see what you’ve created with another writer (or two or three⁠ — there’s actually no limit) for our annual Collaboration Contest. Between August 15 and September 15, submityour wildest, most inventive work of any or mixed genre. Just keep your hybrid masterpiece to 1,000 words or…

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Seeking a Fiction Editor

Sundog Lit is looking for a new fiction editor!

What do we want? We want someone who has experience in publishing and editing fiction, has a strong editorial vision, and sympathizes with our mission:

publishing pieces that engage with tension, introspection, empathy, consider positionality, form play, emotional courage, and musicality.

uplifting voices from all corners in hopes of breaking down…

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Dear Cherished Writers and Readers,

We’ve missed you! We’re writing to say hello! It’s been quiet over here at Sundog these last few months, and we’d like to share with you now some of the why.

Firstly, our wonderful Managing Editor Laura Citino has decided to move onto other projects that will enrich her writing and her commitment to her local community. Throughout her three years of editorial…

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2018 Best of the Net Nominees

We are thrilled to announce our 2018 Best of the Net nominees. Please join us in reading these texts again and again and in cheering on their creators.

Fiction:

Keith Woodruff’s “SuspectHealing”

Melissa Goodrich and Dana Diehl’s “The Janitor’s Stars”

Nonfiction:

Rosie Huf’s “Can Iron Catch Flame?”

Maggie Nye’s “Slender Sickness”

Poetry:

Shaina Monet’s “Madame Marguerite Joséphine Jean-Louis…

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What We're Reading: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

What We’re Reading: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

By Melissa Wiley

The more time I spend trying to write the truth of my own life, the more elusive that truth inevitably becomes. Not just elusive but deeper, softer, making the process of trying to interpret its many facets all the more complex. If you’re as honest with yourself as Patricia Lockwood seems to be, however, that effort also involves the hilarity that reveals itself close examination…

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Announcing Our Nominees for Best New Poets!

We at Sundog Lit are happy to announce our nominees for Best New Poets 2018. We are lucky to have so many thrilling & evocative works to choose from, and we hope you will join us in congratulating our nominees and wishing them the absolute best. Erin Slaughter, “Blue Hole #4” McKenzie Chinn, “h o l y / w a r” Good luck, Erin & McKenzie!

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Music Blog Prompt

Everyone knows that music says what words often can’t. Affecting us viscerally where other artistic mediums struggle, music alters how we move and feel inside our bodies. Even if we don’t actually get up and dance, a given melody causes our muscles to tighten or relax, our heartbeats to slow or quicken. As writers, our tastes in music inevitably say something about our aesthetic, how we’re…

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Mining Salt from Blood: Writing and Coping in the Age of Trump

By Christopher A. Smith The renowned novelist Ishmael Reed has written, “All art must be for the end of liberating the masses.” It’s a phrase I find myself repeating while summoning courage to write about the injustices now part of the fabric of daily American life. Since the 2016 election, my writing has evolved into an act of resistance despite the real fears of my family for my safety. I’m…

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Welcome Our New Poetry Assistant Editors!

Sundog Lit is delighted to welcome two new assistant editors to its poetry team. Please join us in celebrating Leela Chantrelle and Jennifer Huang, our new Co-Assistant Poetry Editors. Each woman brings to her position her own faculty of wisdom and flair for wit, and we are excited that future submitters/contributors and readers will now their goodness and grace. Congratulations, Leela!…

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A Perfect Heart of Paper

By Matthew Sirois The novel was in final edits when he won. I was supposed to be approving copy edits, but some tacky, silver spoon had taken the presidency on a platform of total division. The novel was about dangerous metanarratives, but he’d won on straight-faced xenophobia. My book navigated the thin border between religious faith and nationalism, but this fucker was grabbing some poor…

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