The deadline is Dec. 31 to submit writing and/or visual art to Shark Reef online magazine for its spring 2010 issue.

“We welcome submissions from anyone who lives in the islands or has ever visited here,” Editor Lorna Reese said.

“Shark Reef endeavors to give voice to serious writers who have made a true commitment to work hard to produce original writing of high quality. We are particularly passionate about publishing the work of the ‘common man and woman’ whose writing emerges from first-hand experience.”

As all evaluation of art is subjective, Shark Reef editors make no bones about the fact that their selections are informed by their own “tastes, whims, and fancies.”

Check the submission guidelines at www.sharkreef.org. If you were published in the fall 2009 issue, the editors ask that you skip one issue before submitting again.

“We’re eager to read your work. Send it out and write on!”

Shark Reef was founded in June 2001. It is published by the Lopez Writers Guild.