Writers who love writing about the book industry, writing in-depth book reviews, and conducting author interviews, we need you!

Writers who enjoy writing about marine conservation (sharks, coral reef, pollution, etc.), we’re looking at you, too!

Writers/educators who would like to submit writing prompts, writing exercises, and other lessons that are centered around creative writing, reading more deeply, conservation, green living, sustainability, marine animals… you get the idea, we’d love to hear from you, too!

Finally, if you have some other fun idea that you’d like to pitch us—reaction videos for your first year watching Shark Week, your favorite shark-themed films ranked, book-themed listicles, etc.—we’re open to seeing content outside of news, reviews, interviews, and teaching materials.

We also welcome our writers to submit all over the site. So if you’re worried you won’t be able to submit to Lit Shark because you’ve written for us, that’s not true. We read all of our submissions without identifying information, so our selection goes on quality, not on connections. You’re welcome to submit anytime.

And of course, if you’ve sent work to us before and it wasn’t selected, you’re welcome to pitch to us again!  We likely already had too similar of a piece in our cue or were overrun with quality content at the time. We’d love to hear from you again.

Pitches AND Regular Contributors Welcome:

We’re open to one pitch or a history of a dozen from one writer, but if you’re interested in regularly contributing to our site, we’d love to welcome you. In that situation, we would like to work with you on two bylined pieces, and as long as the process goes smoothly, we will add you to our regular contributor pool for book news, reviews, etc.

Future Compensation:

Unfortunately at this time, we are not compensating our writers, but they will always receive a byline, photo, bio, and social media links on our site. And being able to pay our freelance writers, creative writers, and artists is our first priority, so once we have enough income coming in, that’s the first place we’ll be investing. Artists and writers deserve compensation, period.

We hope to hear from you soon! Please share your message and pitch below, or if you have a full piece you’d like us to consider, you can pass that along, too. Looking forward to reading your work!