Happy Monday and Happy New Year, readers, writers, and shark fans! And WELCOME BACK!
We have seriously missed you all so much and appreciated your patience during our time away. As much as we didn’t want to take it, it was a much-needed break, and we’re incredibly excited for what 2026 will bring.
We’re still the Lit Shark you remember!
We’re excited to get back to our regularly scheduled programming of book reviews, author interviews, writing prompts, and important information about conservation, sustainability, and marine life. During our quiet season, we’ve been studying marine biology extensively and establishing new relationships with programs and organizations that are making a real difference in coral reef restoration, ethical tourism and diving, and endangered species preservation. We’re so excited to see where these connections will lead, online and around the world on its various coasts.
Submissions are now open!
We are excited to announce that submissions are now open for Issues 10, 11, 12, and 13 for Lit Shark Magazine for 2026. You can check out this year’s themes and guidelines here.
And don’t forget our Poem of the Month contest! We plan to release our first 2026 winner in February, so get your poems in! They’ll also be considered for an upcoming issue of Lit Shark Magazine.
We are also accepting submissions for the second mini issue of Lit Pup Magazine. More information is available here!
We also want to extend our “early bird” reading period for The Shiver Collective for January and February. We’d love to see a few more manuscripts in our inbox!
If you’ve already submitted, THANK YOU. We’re gradually working back through our cue to empty our inbox. If you haven’t heard from us yet, you will very soon.
We have a few new things in the works, too…
We’re still working out the details, but we have a few things we’d love to see if you’d be interested in:
The Literary Shark Tank: A monthly virtual get-together/workshop with a mini creative lesson/time to study a writer, a writing prompt, time to write, time to share our work (optional, of course!). Our Editor-in-Chief would lead these for now, but we’d love this to grow into something where we invite different writers each month to offer a mini lesson and to share a little of their work, in addition to leading the writing workshop.
Lit Shark Teen: We aren’t delusional enough to believe that we’re a big enough platform to offer a new space for those impacted by the absorption of Teen Vogue into Vogue, but we’d like to offer a new, little space for teen-specific topics, sprinkled with creativity, the sea, and sharks. We also want to start a summer creative writing course for teens.
Serial Sharks on Substack!: Okay, maybe that isn’t the name we’ll go with, but it’s fun to say! We’re thinking of starting a little Substack to share chapters from a book our team is writing. The subscription would be very low, all funds would go back into the magazine to help pay our writers, and subscribers would have the opportunity to help morph the story as it’s created, as well as vote on future book topics. And if you’re not interested in Substack or subscribing, that’s okay, too! After careful editing and design, it’ll be published as an extra title at The Shiver Collective (not as a part of our annual contest).
Let us know if any of these interests you! We want your feedback!
That’s all for today!
We’re so excited to be back. Thank you so much for your kind messages throughout our break and reminding us of the incredible community we have around us. We’re excited to give back to you and cannot wait to dive back into your submissions.
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