Happy Tuesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! We remember anticipating Tuesdays while we were growing up, because that was when the best movies and albums were released! We’re excited to be releasing an issue on a Tuesday this time around, and we’re even more excited to announce that it’s none other than our highly anticipated SHARK WEEK Edition!
Issue 8 of Lit Shark Magazine: The SHARK WEEK Edition is a wonderful compilation of fiction, short memoirs, lots of poetry, and photography, all highlighting nature and marine life, exploring our environment through our senses, and most importantly, destigmatizing sharks and similarly misunderstood creatures. It’s an incredible example of quality writing and contains beautifully memorable pieces.
We originally intended to release this much closer to the actual SHARK WEEK documentary series, but when submissions were a bit low, we decided to give writers more time to contribute to the issue, and we are so glad that we did. The submissions we received were so impressive, and just like the writers who latched onto the campiness of our Spooky (TEETH) Edition, we’re so pleased with how much our writers and artists leaned into examining nature and marine life for what became this issue! We cannot wait for you to read it.
Without further ado… the issue!
Welcome to Issue 8: The SHARK WEEK Edition!
A Special Thank You to Our Contributors and All Who Submitted!
Available to All Readers, Writers, and Shark Fans
We believe literature of all kinds should be accessible to everyone, no matter their financial situations, educational affiliations, etc. So we’re offering each of our issues as a free PDF that you can download and read. You can then read it on your phone, computer, or e-reader, or you could even print out a copy! (If you’re new here, welcome! You can read all of our previous issues here.)
Choose Your Edition
Depending on your preferences, we’re offering two-page spread and one-page spread editions. The two-page spread will feel more like a book with facing pages. The one-page spread will display one page at a time, which may be friendlier for those who want to read on an e-reader (though I prefer the book-like feeling of the two-page spread, and it’s been okay to read on my Kindle Paperwhite; the display is simply smaller!).
The Paperback Edition Is on the Way!
We will also be offering a paperback edition via Amazon, which will be available this week for purchase. It will contain the same content, but we wanted to offer this for those of you (like me) who enjoy reading physical copies, need more time physically away from screens, or want to financially support Lit Shark’s future. The cover will be a beautiful matte, and the spine of each issue, when you place them next to each other, will create a surprise image. We’ve officially reached the point where we’ve published enough issues that readers can start to guess what the spines will reveal!
More Ways to Support on the Way!
We’ve received quite a few really kind messages in the past weeks about two requests: first, to offer an e-book version to purchase, and second, to offer more ways to purchase our books. Now that Issue 8 is live, we’re going to take some time to convert our paperback edition files to proper e-book files, as well. We will still keep the free PDFs on our site, we always want our content to be available to everyone, but we hope offering the e-book edition will be helpful to some readers out there and may even help more people find out about us! As for more ways to purchase books, we are looking into what we could do so readers can order directly from us if they so wish, instead of Amazon, but we will get back to you on that as soon as possible!
Thank You.
Thank you to all of you for the incredible support and excitement you’ve shown to Lit Shark. This issue came together so beautifully, and we’re excited to see where the rest of 2024 will take us. I can’t wait to continue on this journey with you. Thank you so much for being here. Also, if you’d like to be more involved in our journey, our submissions are always open, and you can also participate in our Poem of the Month contest, or even become a contributor on our team. However you decide to be involved, we’re grateful to have you in our community!
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