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Applications for the SUNHOUSE Issue 4 Microgrant for BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ writers are now closed.


Each of the two winners will receive $100 each to use towards submission fees/other literary-related fees and may be published in an upcoming issue of SUNHOUSE. The deadline to apply was May 15, 2024, at 11:59PM PST.


To apply, please email sunhouseinternal@gmail.com with the subject line “[FIRST NAME]_MICROGRANT” and the following information:

  1. A max 200-word statement about how you plan on using the microgrant money (a list format is acceptable).

  2. A writing sample of either 3 poems, 3 flash pieces, or 1 short story in a .docx or .pdf file. It should not exceed 10 pages; if you’d like to submit hybrid pieces or multiple genres, feel free, as long as you follow the page limit. Previously published or unpublished pieces are both accepted.

  3. A max 300-word statement about yourself as a writer and how writing is meaningful to your life (optional).


Lastly, we strongly suggest checking out our about page, as well as our latest issue to get familiar with our general mission. If you’ve got questions, feel free to shoot us an email at sunhouseinternal@gmail.com.


We're looking forward to reading about you and your work. ✺

Microgrant

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Applications for the SUNHOUSE Issue 4 Microgrant for BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ writers are now closed.


Each of the two winners will receive $100 each to use towards submission fees/other literary-related fees and may be published in an upcoming issue of SUNHOUSE. The deadline to apply was May 15, 2024, at 11:59PM PST.


To apply, please email sunhouseinternal@gmail.com with the subject line “[FIRST NAME]_MICROGRANT” and the following information:

  1. A max 200-word statement about how you plan on using the microgrant money (a list format is acceptable).

  2. A writing sample of either 3 poems, 3 flash pieces, or 1 short story in a .docx or .pdf file. It should not exceed 10 pages; if you’d like to submit hybrid pieces or multiple genres, feel free, as long as you follow the page limit. Previously published or unpublished pieces are both accepted.

  3. A max 300-word statement about yourself as a writer and how writing is meaningful to your life (optional).


Lastly, we strongly suggest checking out our about page, as well as our latest issue to get familiar with our general mission. If you’ve got questions, feel free to shoot us an email at sunhouseinternal@gmail.com.


We're looking forward to reading about you and your work. ✺

We're delighted to announce that the two recipients of the SUNHOUSE Issue 4 Microgrant for BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ writers are Exodus Oktavia Brownlow and Gaia Rajan! We're so excited to celebrate these two writers and support them in all their literary endeavours.

Winners

Exodus Oktavia Brownlow


Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is a writer, budding beekeeper, and a rising seamstress currently residing in the enchanting pine tree forest of Blackhawk, Ms. She is a graduate of Mississippi Valley State University with a BA in English, and Mississippi University for Women with an MFA in Creative Writing. Exodus has been published or has forthcoming work with Electric Lit, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, F(r)iction and more. Her writing has been selected for Best MicroFiction [2022 and 2021], and Wigleaf Top 50 [2022]. She is the recipient of the 2022 "The Changing American South" fellowship at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, and serves as an Associate Editor with Fractured Lit and Editor-in-Chief of The Loveliest Review. She is the author of two books, a fiction chapbook—"Look at All The Little Hurts of These Newly-Broken Lives and The Bittersweet, Sweet and Bitter Loves"published with Ethel Zine and Press and a collection of essays—“I'm Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, To Go Back To Who I Knew Before, And Oh Lord, Who Will I Be After I've Known All That I Can”—published with ELJ Editions. You can find her and more of her work at exodusoktaviabrownlow.com.

Gaia Rajan


Gaia Rajan is the author of the chapbooks Moth Funerals (Glass Poetry Press 2020) and Killing It (Black Lawrence Press 2022). Their work is published or forthcoming in Best New Poets, the Best of the Net anthology, The Kenyon Review, THRUSH, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. They are a Kettle Pond Writers fellow, Copper Canyon Press intern, and reader for Poetry Northwest. They live in Pittsburgh and online at @gaiarajan on Twitter or Instagram.

Finalists

Liana Fu
Para Vadhahong
Pegah Ouji
Fadairo Tesleem
Nat Raum

Microgrant


We're delighted to announce that the two recipients of the SUNHOUSE Issue 4 Microgrant for BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ writers are Exodus Oktavia Brownlow and Gaia Rajan! We're so excited to celebrate these two writers and support them in all their literary endeavours.



Winners

Exodus Oktavia Brownlow


Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is a writer, budding beekeeper, and a rising seamstress currently residing in the enchanting pine tree forest of Blackhawk, Ms. She is a graduate of Mississippi Valley State University with a BA in English, and Mississippi University for Women with an MFA in Creative Writing. Exodus has been published or has forthcoming work with Electric Lit, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, F(r)iction and more. Her writing has been selected for Best MicroFiction [2022 and 2021], and Wigleaf Top 50 [2022]. She is the recipient of the 2022 "The Changing American South" fellowship at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, and serves as an Associate Editor with Fractured Lit and Editor-in-Chief of The Loveliest Review. She is the author of two books, a fiction chapbook—"Look at All The Little Hurts of These Newly-Broken Lives and The Bittersweet, Sweet and Bitter Loves"published with Ethel Zine and Press and a collection of essays—“I'm Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, To Go Back To Who I Knew Before, And Oh Lord, Who Will I Be After I've Known All That I Can”—published with ELJ Editions. You can find her and more of her work at exodusoktaviabrownlow.com.

Gaia Rajan


Gaia Rajan is the author of the chapbooks Moth Funerals (Glass Poetry Press 2020) and Killing It (Black Lawrence Press 2022). Their work is published or forthcoming in Best New Poets, the Best of the Net anthology, The Kenyon Review, THRUSH, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. They are a Kettle Pond Writers fellow, Copper Canyon Press intern, and reader for Poetry Northwest. They live in Pittsburgh and online at @gaiarajan on Twitter or Instagram.

Finalists

Liana Fu
Para Vadhahong
Pegah Ouji
Fadairo Tesleem
Nat Raum