Like the first two editions of Sunshine/Noir this anthology presents the reader with a wide range of contemporary San Diego writers of fiction and nonfiction alike as well as poets, artists, and photographers.  It explores San Diego and Tijuana’s border culture; the city’s multiple identities and lost history; the region’s natural beauty and endangered ecologies; its role as a center of the culture of war; and San Diego and Tijuana writers’ attempts to explore the meaning of place.

By using a multiethnic, multidisciplinary, pan-artistic approach, this anthology offers the reader a fresh look at a city yet to be explored in such a fashion.  Sunshine/Noir III is not comprehensive, but rather stands only as a place marker in the continuing exploration of literary San Diego that leaves many borders yet to be crossed. This anthology includes acclaimed and award-winning poets and writers as well as emerging authors.  While most of the authors and artists anthologized here are from San Diego and Tijuana, a few are not, though we welcome them as good hosts.  All in all, we think we have assembled yet another gorgeous hybrid monster.  Enter at your own risk.

As we noted above, Sunshine/Noir III marks the twenty-year anniversary of San Diego City Works Press, a project of the San Diego Writers Collective.  The San Diego Writers Collective is a group of writers, poets, artists, and patrons dedicated to the publication and promotion of the work of San Diego area artists of all sorts.  Our specific interests include local, ethnic, and border writing as well as formal innovation and progressive politics. The Collective’s main focus is local, but we have engaged in occasional collaborations with writers from around the world. San Diego City Works Press is a non-profit press, funded by local writers and friends of the arts, committed to the publication of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art by members of the San Diego City College community and the community at large.