Guidelines

For the next issue’s theme and deadline, see below. We accept submissions from anyone, anywhere (but, if you are under 18, please get a parent’s permission).

To avoid having your submissions disregarded as spam, please ensure to put ‘Submission’ in the subject line (it is useful if you can also indicate the issue you are submitting to or if it is a general submission). If you are emailing about anything else, such as advertising, feedback/letters of comment, other projects, please indicate that in the subject line. Please include sufficient information regarding any queries in the body of the email or it will likely be marked as spam.

Submissions are only likely to receive an acceptance or rejection after the submission deadline and I cannot guarantee an acknowledgement, so there is no advantage to sending a submission long before the deadline (although you are welcome to).

All submissions should be sent to tigersharkpublishing [at] hotmail.co.uk

Ebook submissions are currently closed.

Privacy

We will only use your email address to respond to queries, acknowledge and either accept or reject submissions, update contributors on the status of the issue their work is accepted for and send out a copy to contributors, nothing else. You can download copies of the ezine without having to contact us or provide any information.

General Ezine Submissions

Acceptances and rejections will be sent out in the month following the deadline (this can take up until the end of the month).

Forthcoming Themes

Issue 33 – open to submissions

Theme: Behind the Curtain

Curtain-twitching neighbourhood busybodies.
Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz.
The veil between life and death.
The invisible separation of two worlds.
Just what is the curtain, who is behind it, and who is peeking?

Deadline: end April 2023       Publication: June 2023

Requirements

Tigershark ezine is open to submissions from anyone (both new and established writers) in any style or genre, and accepts flash fiction, short fiction and non-fiction/reviews up to 5000 words (loose), poetry of any length, and artwork. Multiple submissions are welcome. (Please do not include quotations or other people’s characters or settings in your work unless they are free of copyright, you have obtained permission for their use or their use constitutes fair use in articles or reviews, or parody in fiction or poetry.)

Issues are themed, but unthemed work will also be considered, with approximately a third of any issue being potentially unthemed.

Because the ezine is a non-paying market, we are happy to consider reprints (but preferably not ones easily available online – feel free to query) and extremely short submissions (there is no minimum length). Multiple submissions are acceptable but not simultaneous submissions (you should receive a response within a month of the deadline).

Adult Content

We do accept work with ‘adult’ content (sex, graphic violence, swearing, etc). We don’t want to apply any sweeping restrictions, but such content must serve the story/poem, especially if it’s contentious (such as abusive terms or a rape scene).

Artwork

Artwork submissions are welcome. A with written work, both themed and unthemed pieces are considered. Authors may submit illustrations to accompany written submissions, but this isn’t a requirement (copyright free work or work for which they have the artist’s permission may be submitted; copyright artwork may accompany articles and reviews as long as it falls within the free use remit). Please try to keep the file size of pictures as small as possible.

Submitting

Submissions and queries should be sent to the editorial address with Submission (noting theme, general submission or artwork as appropriate) or Query in the subject line.

Multiple submissions are accepted (but please keep it to reasonable limits!). Please no simultaneous submissions.

Submissions should either be in the body of the email or attached in .rtf, .odt, .doc or .docx format. .Jpeg is the best format for images.

Acceptances and rejections will go out after the closing date for the issue they are submitted to (unthemed submissions will be replied to after the closing date of the next due issue). If you haven’t heard within three weeks of the closing date, please feel free to query.

Rejection

Rejection is subjective and usually means the story didn’t quite click. Please do not be deterred from submitting again to future issues. Generally, we do not provide feedback on rejections unless either there is a significant issue (like poor spelling and grammar) or we liked it except for something specific.

Editing

Only minimal editing will ever be applied to your work so please make sure to do a spelling and grammar check as stories with a lot of issues will be rejected. (Spelling may be standardised to UK spelling, but we have no problem with US spelling in submissions).

Rights

We require no specific rights, but do ask that work accepted for Tigershark ezine not be published elsewhere between the closing date for submissions (approximately one month before publication date) and three months following the issue’s publication. After that period you may freely submit your work elsewhere (exception for Best of Year anthologies).

Please remember that if previously unpublished work is published in Tigershark, you may be unable to enter it in competitions and it will be classed as a reprint when submitting elsewhere.

Queries

We’re pretty easy going at Tigershark. If you need a clarification or are seeking an exception to a rule above, get in touch and we’ll try to accommodate you.

Ebook Submission

Submission Periods

Please check the top of the page for submission periods. Ebook submissions will only be accepted during these periods. Acceptances and rejections will be made after the deadline. Authors may submit up to three ebooks for consideration, but please do not send simultaneous submissions.

Genre

We are open to any genre of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. (However, erotic fiction/poetry and specialist non-fiction are unlikely to be accepted.) Collections of poetry, articles and short stories are welcome, as are epic poems, non-fiction volumes and long fiction (eg novellas), and mixed collections. Unusual submissions will also be considered.

Length

We are open to any length, but very short submissions are unlikely to be accepted (they are better suited to the magazine) and very long submissions (such as full-length novels) are unlikely to be accepted.

Submitting

Please submit the entire manuscript and any accompanying artwork to the editorial address with Ebook (fiction/non-fiction/poetry – delete as appropriate) in the subject line. Documents should be .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .odt in format (no pdfs). Pictures should be .jpg or .png. Please try to keep the file size of any pictures as low as possible. A brief synopsis or description of the work is appreciated.

Rights

All rights to the work remain with the author (an e-contract will be available if you wish one). All we ask is that the work as a whole (in this or a similar form) not currently be available in electronic format and that the work will be available from our site for six months. After six months you may choose to remove it from the site.

Remember, if we publish a previously unpublished work, you will only be able to sell it as a reprint in future.

Payment

Tigershark Publishing will not be paying authors. What we will be doing is including the authors PayPal email or PayPal link so that readers may donate to the author (or, optionally, the author may request readers donate to a charity). Obviously, we cannot guarantee that readers will download your ebook or will opt to donate anything, so please bear that in mind before submitting your work.

Format

We will make accepted manuscripts available in pdf format to download from this site. If in future we decide to produce ebooks in other formats or available elsewhere or print books, no books accepted for pdf publication will be re-released without the explicit permission of the author.

Artwork

Authors may supply their own artwork for potential cover or interior illustration (please do when submitting) or artwork to which they have obtained the right to use or which is copyright free. Otherwise, we will supply suitable artwork (authors will have a veto) – most likely this will be copyright free artwork.