To support our young and emerging writers, we want to create a Creative Frenzy of writing prompts, craft books, and inspiration.
We’ll maintain all of our writing prompt posts here, as well as open-access teaching materials for poetry, creative writing, ekphrasis, sharks, and conservation.
In the future, we’ll also maintain our own published books here: books on writing craft, writing prompt journals, and writing goal planners—not to mention our recommendations of other craft books and essays on writing.
Happy First of October, readers, writers, and shark fans! Many of you following us are familiar with National Novel Writing Month (often referred to as NaNoWriMo), the organization that promoted the concept of writing an entire novel (first draft) during the month of...
Happy Wednesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! Welcome to Writing Prompt Wednesday and a belated Lit Pup Tuesday! To honor both occasions, I've provided a writing prompt today that a writer of any age can use! Keep reading for some suggestions for how to use this...
Happy Writing Prompt Wednesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! We're so excited to get back to this series and hope you are, too. In case you missed it, we hosted our first Lit Pup Tuesday yesterday, including writing prompts for children and teen writers. All...
Happy Tuesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! And a special hello to our Lit Pup Community! As we get settled back into a regular content schedule, you might notice that Lit Shark is now going to be posting themed posts each day, including "Lit Pup Tuesdays," which...
Happy Tuesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! We love Motivation Mondays and Tuesday Tips around here, so today, we thought we'd share an interesting series of tips from Goosebumps YA horror author R.L. Stine. We recently sat in on an interview between some of the...
Happy Friday, readers, writers, and shark fans! Ugg, I have to be real with you: This post should have come out on Wednesday. But I have been SO sick this week and I feel like barely squeaking by, so the writing prompt came out on social media on Thursday instead of...
Good morning, readers, writers, and shark fans! McKenzie here (Editor-in-Chief at Lit Shark). I received the coolest opportunity this morning for my Lit Pup writers, and I wanted to share this with our Lit Shark community right away. Lit Pup writers, I hope you'll...
Happy Wednesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! I have a little secret: I know you have a project that you've been putting off. Maybe you've put off finishing it, or polishing it, or simply sending it off for consideration. No matter what your situation, though,...
Happy Wednesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! In place of Writing Prompt Wednesday this week, we want to share a new opportunity with you: our first paid opportunity! Starting with the rest of September 2023, Lit Shark Magazine will host a monthly Poem of the...
Happy Wednesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! It's that time of week again! We're here for another Writing Prompt Wednesday! Each Wednesday, we will share a writing prompt THEME instead of just one solo prompt. There will still be prompts included, but like our...
Happy "Wednesday," readers, writers, and shark fans! (We know it's Thursday, but this was supposed to post yesterday and for some reason... it didn't... so we're going to chalk it up to being Wednesday!) With the Shortlist for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for...
Happy Wednesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! And happy AUGUST! Can you believe a whole new month is here already? And that SHARK WEEK is already done for this year? And that we're extending our deadline for Issue 2: The Shark Week Edition to August 9th instead...
Happy Wednesday, writers and shark fans! I hope your week is everything you’ve hoped for. In the meantime, it’s Writing Prompt Wednesday! AND National Poetry Month! For the month of April, to celebrate National Poetry Month, we're going to share a series of words that...
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...
Happy Writing Prompt Friday, everyone! We have one more for today: turning a list into a poem.
Happy Friday, writers and shark fans! I hope your week is everything you’ve hoped for. In the meantime, it’s Writing Prompt Friday! Every Friday, we will share a writing prompt, as well as the Editor-in-Chief’s (EIC’s) response to the prompt and some of her thoughts...
Happy Friday, writers and shark fans! Every Friday, LIT SHARK will share a writing prompt you can use to submit work, due the following Monday, for a creative feature on the site! Happy Writing! #writingprompt #writinginspiration #litshark #litpup #shivercollective #amwriting #submissions #submit #slushpile #literarymagazine #litmag