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Welcome to the online den of The Sun Runner Magazine, The Magazine of California Desert Life & CultureWe’re based in Joshua Tree, California, in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park, the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, and the neighboring hi-desert communities of Twentynine Palms, Yucca Valley, Morongo Valley, Landers, Wonder Valley, Johnson Valley and Pioneertown, collectively known as the Morongo Basin
and/or the hi-desert (not the “high” desert, like Lancaster and Palmdale).
Now in our 14th year of publishing, we have grown to
cover, and are distributed throughout, the California deserts, reaching more than 30,000 print readers each issue, from El Centro to Ridgecrest - and beyond. We are the only California deserts-wide media, and we are homegrown, and independent.
We are passionately of, by, & for the desert, and we’ve been that way since we began publishing in January, 1995.  And it doesn’t look like we’re getting any less that way in the 21st Century.  Thanks for stopping by.....

The Second Annual Desert Writers Issue - August/September 2008

For a great “summer read,” pick up a copy of the new edition of The Sun Runner, featuring selections from more than 85 submissions to our Desert Writers Issue 2008. Twenty of the top short stories and poems are featured in the print edition, and selections from ALL the writers’ entries are available online for your reading pleasure. (Click on the cover at left to access the Desert Writers Issue online.) Also in this issue is an excerpt from Deanne Stillman’s new book “Mustang,” plus Art News, Theatre, Film, Music, Desert History, and more!

Click below to read the
2007 Desert Writers Issue contributions
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Keep up on what’s going on
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arts & entertainment scene
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and Demo -
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Sun Runner Publisher Steve Brown joins Demo (right) on KX96 FM every Friday morning to keep you up to date with the desert!

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Reserve your space at WRITE! A Desert Writers Workshop, hosted by NPR commentator and author Mary Sojourner on September 28 !  Click below to reserve securely by credit card. Call (760)366-2700 for more information.

Don’t miss our exclusive online features!

When you purchase a copy of Lafittes Return, Volume Two, you not only get an album packed full of great piratical music, including “Derelict” by the deserts pirate jam band, There Be Pirates!, but you also support the purchase of musical instruments for New Orleans schools that lost everything during Hurricane Katrina.
Click the artwork to the left  to order, and thank you!


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Take a virtual tour of our Oasis of Murals in 29 Palms.  www.oasisofmurals.com

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