Shark Feed
The 10 Best Ways to Reignite Your Creativity
Happy Monday, readers, writers, and shark fans! For Motivation Monday, we wanted to address something that every creative experiences, no matter where they are in their career or hobby life: writer's block, burnout, or what feels like a diffused creative spark. This...
Let’s Celebrate! 100+ Submissions to Lit Shark Magazine
Happy Tuesday, writers, friends, and shark fans! I cannot believe we only have ONE WEEK LEFT in February already. Where is this year going? Fortunately, I have a positive answer for that: this year is going amazing places. How do I know that? Well, because I have a...
Our 2023 Resolutions: Read More, Laugh More, Submit More
Happy Wednesday, all! It's been an inspiring day, and we've taken big steps today, including officially announcing that our community is live, opening the doors for submissions for our first issue, and making progress on our social media channels. Whether you're...
Latest Book Reviews
Clark Kent is a Super Hipster: Finding Beauty in the Absurd & the Mundane: Reading Shawnte Orion’s ‘The Existentialist Cookbook’
Here I am, attempting to think of what to say, but my coffee spilled, and it made such a lovely and dark display across my table. This is the sort of mindset in which Shawnte Orion places me: an area of in-the-moment appreciation, the odd humor of something spilled...
The Surrealist and Bodily Nature of Grief: Reading Kristin Bair O’Keeffe’s ‘The Art of Floating’
Even when you read regularly, it takes time to find something truly great; but every once in a while, there will be a book, a poem, a story, that truly turns you on your heel, holds you in place, and keeps you loving, recommending and discussing that piece for months....
One Step Forward, One Step Back: The Complexities of Jason Odell Williams’ ‘Personal Statement’
We’ve all been there. We reached the final year of high school and discovered the college, the school, the job, and the career that we wanted, and we attempted to move forward. We did everything we thought we needed to do---and more---to ensure that we would land one...
We’ll Never Know What We’re Leaving Behind: Reading ‘Swimming Lessons’ by Claire Fuller
I’ll be honest: I’ve spent the last two days trying to let this book go (or rather, to pry its hooks out of me). This book is all at once startling and overwhelming, beautifully composed, and thieving (as ‘haunting’ in this case is not a strong enough word). I flipped...
Grief as Meditation, Grief as Art: Reading Meg Day’s ‘Last Psalm at Sea Level’
Writing reviews can be extremely difficult. What’s ironic, though, is that I tend to find greater difficulty in writing a review about a book that I loved, rather than one I was unimpressed with. Perhaps this is because I tend to find some angle of merit in each work...
‘Gone Girl’ Meets ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ In Jean Hanff Korelitz’s ‘The Plot’
Happy Friday, readers and shark fans! Here is Jean Hanff Korelitz’s THE PLOT, which bears incredible ties to LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE and GONE GIRL in a dark academic thriller.
A group of sharks is called a shiver.
Latest Lit Shark Issue
Lit Shark Seeking Submissions for Issue #1!
Hi readers, writers, and shark lovers! Thank you so much for supporting Lit Shark. We're so happy to hear that you're potentially interested in sharing your work with us and contributing to this growing, shiver community. Please read below for details about how to...
Latest Lit Pup Issue
Lit Pup Seeking Submissions for Issue #1!
Hi to our younger readers, writers, artists, shark lovers---and your parents/guardians/family/mentors! Thank you so much for supporting Lit Pup by being here. We're so happy you're here and are interested in working with us in this early part of your creative,...
“Follow your artistic obsessions mercilessly.” – Franz Kafka
Latest Author Interviews
The Bottom: An Interview with Betsy Andrews
Betsy Andrews' book-length poem, The Bottom, was published by 42 Miles Press in 2014 and received the 2013 42 Miles Poetry Prize. Sections of this poem appeared in such places as Kadar Koli, BoogCity, Stone Canoe, and The Laurel Review, as well as Poets for...
Interrobang: An Interview with Jessica Piazza
Jessica Piazza's first full-length collection, Interrobang, was published by Red Hen Press in September 2013 and was the recipient of the AROHO 2011 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize and the 2013 Balcones Poetry Prize. Poems in this collection appeared in such...
The Feed
Writing Prompt: The Missing Piece
Happy Wednesday, writers and shark fans! I hope your week is everything you’ve hoped for. In the meantime, it’s Writing Prompt Wednesday! Every Wednesday going forward, we will share a writing prompt, as well as the Editor-in-Chief’s (EIC’s) response to the prompt and...
The 10 Best Ways to Reignite Your Creativity
Happy Monday, readers, writers, and shark fans! For Motivation Monday, we wanted to address something that every creative experiences, no matter where they are in their career or hobby life: writer's block, burnout, or what feels like a diffused creative spark. This...
Let’s Celebrate! 100+ Submissions to Lit Shark Magazine
Happy Tuesday, writers, friends, and shark fans! I cannot believe we only have ONE WEEK LEFT in February already. Where is this year going? Fortunately, I have a positive answer for that: this year is going amazing places. How do I know that? Well, because I have a...
Our 2023 Resolutions: Read More, Laugh More, Submit More
Happy Wednesday, all! It's been an inspiring day, and we've taken big steps today, including officially announcing that our community is live, opening the doors for submissions for our first issue, and making progress on our social media channels. Whether you're...
Writing Prompt: We’re Making a List
Happy Writing Prompt Friday, everyone! We have one more for today: turning a list into a poem.
