Submissions
SHARK REEF publishes two issues a year, one in the summer and one in the winter. Submission deadlines are March 31 and September 30. We consider solicited and unsolicited material, previously published or unpublished. Each issue of our magazine will include several fiction and non-fiction pieces, poetry by one or two poets and the work of one visual artist.
General guidelines: Documents must be submitted online in Microsoft Word or in RTF (Rich Text Format). PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR NAME ON EACH DOCUMENT YOU ATTACH! Email submissions –one genre only — to gro.feerkrahsnull@rotide. Please use simple formatting and double space your work. For everything except poetry, use a line break between paragraphs instead of indenting. Maximum word limit is 4,000 words. Poets may submit up to three unpublished poems MAXIMUM. Visual artists may submit up to five pieces maximum (See visual art guidelines below.) Simultaneous submissions are ok. Please include your name, address, daytime telephone number, e-mail address and a short bio.
To be sure your submission receives our full consideration, please proofread your text carefully; spelling, grammatical and mechanical mistakes may prevent us from giving your work the full editorial attention it deserves.
You can expect a reply to your submission within three months of the submission deadlines. We neither charge nor remit payment for submissions or selections. We do not require any legal document to change hands. The selections are posted as our Current Issue until the next issue comes out and then moved to the Archives section.
Important: Many email service providers use rather aggressive spam filters. Please make sure that your email system is set up to accept mail from us—usually adding our email address gro.feerkrahsnull@rotide to your address book is sufficient.
Editorial Standards & Policies—Literary Submissions
SHARK REEF endeavors to give voice to serious writers who are committed to producing original writing of high quality. We are particularly passionate about publishing work revealing the rich experiences of ordinary people, whether as fiction, non-fiction, drama or poetry.
We may edit your work but will ask for your approval before it appears. As all evaluation of art is subjective, we make no bones about the fact that our selections are informed by our own tastes, whims, and fancies. We encourage you to review past issues of SHARK REEF to get a sense of our editorial preferences.
Editorial Standards & Policies—Visual Art
SHARK REEF endeavors to provide a venue to serious visual artists and fine art photographers. Again, as all evaluation of art is subjective, we make no bones about the fact that our selections are informed by our own tastes, whims, and fancies.
Please submit no more than five images in JPEG or PNG formats. Images size should be resized to be no less than 400 pixels on the longest side, and no larger than 1000 pixels on the longest side; JPEGs should be compressed at High Quality (60-80) settings.
Note: Mac users, please make sure that your documents include the appropriate file extension: .rtf, .png, .jpg,
File & Formatting Guidelines
Please submit text documents as a Word document or in RTF (Rich Text Format). Please keep formatting simple, as complex formatting can’t be easily transferred to HTML.
Note: Mac users, please make sure that your documents include the appropriate file extension: .doc, .rtf, .png, or .jpg
Contact Us
We’d love to hear from you. Send your comments to editor Lorna Reese at gro.feerkrahsnull@rotide. Lorna works with a different co-editor for each issue. If you think you might be a good co-editor, please contact us about that as well.
