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The Sun is a beautiful magazine with a literary bent and a very loyal following. They have no ads, and they pay their writers well. According to their website, “The Sun<\/em> is an independent, ad-free monthly magazine that for forty years has used words and photographs to evoke the splendor and heartache of being human.”<\/p>\n They accept submissions of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and interviews. They pay $300 to $2,000 for nonfiction, from $300 to $1,500 for fiction, from $100 to $200 for poetry. (Unfortunately, they seem to have slightly lowered their pay rates recently.)<\/p>\n They do accept reprints, but they only pay half the normal rate.<\/p>\n They also publish interviews. According to their website:<\/p>\n “We publish only question-and-answer-style interviews: no profiles. We typically pay from $1,000 to $2,000 for one-time rights, along with the option to reprint all or part of the work on our website, in our promotional materials, and in one of our anthologies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n They pay up to $1,000 for photo essays.<\/p>\n It’s pretty competitive to get published by them. They get over a thousand submissions a month. Considering the quality of their publication, this is not a surprise.<\/p>\n If you’ve not read the Sun before, I highly encourage you to take a look. They have a free sample issue<\/a> online.<\/p>\n