Thank you for your interest in submitting to Lit Shark Magazine!
We’re grateful for the opportunity to read so many great works, beautifully rendered ideas, and excellent executions of genre. But most importantly, we love reminding each other that we don’t have to live these things alone: our thoughts, our experiences, or our art.
To Submit to Lit Shark Magazine:
Thank you for submitting to Lit Shark! To submit, please email publishing@litshark.com.
The subject line of your email should be, “[Issue #] Lit Shark Sub,” so we can match your submission up with the proper theme. Include your name, contact info, and author bio in the body of the email.
If the submission is a reprint, that must be stated in the body of the email, along with the information about the earlier printing(s).
Your submission should appear in ONE document, and it should not include your name or other identifying information, so we can ensure a fair, unbiased reading of your work. We prefer PDF or Word Docx.
Poetry: Up to 5 poems or 10 pages
Fiction, Short Nonfiction, and Novel Excerpts: Up to 15 pages or 4500 words
Plays: 10-minute plays or up to 10 pages
General submissions are ALWAYS welcome, but some of our issues are themed, so please be mindful of what our themes are for the year, so you can submit your work to the most fitting issue possible.
Reprints are acceptable, but please include the previous publication information in your submission email.
Simultaneous submissions are always welcome, but please let us know as soon as a piece is accepted elsewhere so we can take it out of consideration. Replying to your initial submission email would be the easiest for us!
Lit Shark’s Submission Schedule:
Submissions are considered on a rolling basis at Lit Shark; our doors are always open. Submissions are also always free! We’re publishing FOUR issues this year, PLUS a Best Of 2024 Anthology and our PAID Poem of the Month Contest.
That said, if there is a particular issue you’d like your work to appear in, or a specific contest you want to submit to, here is our 2024 timeline:
You also can submit your work EARLY (i.e., if you had something ready for our Spooky issue right now); just make sure to note in your submission WHICH issue you’re applying for so we can properly consider it!
Issue 7 of Lit Shark Magazine: The SHARK WEEK Edition
Submissions Due: August 15th
Submissions will be considered May 15 – August 15
The theme for this issue: nature, marine life, and reactions to SHARK WEEK, SHARKFEST, and other similar documentaries. Poetry responses, fiction inspired by fun facts, essays written based on newfound interests, etc. Put your spin on it, but make it fishy and sharktastic!
Issue 8 of Lit Shark Magazine: The Spooky (TEETH) Edition
Submissions Due: October 15th
Submissions will be considered May 15 to October 15
Spooky poems and chilling stories, dark retellings, campy horror and ghost stories, and shark tales that would make JAWS or THE MEG tremble. Send us your creepiest, coolest, and campiest!