HIGH FREQUENCY PRESS
A NOTE FROM HIGH FREQUENCY
High Frequency is our response to a changing marketplace. Larger presses are becoming celebrity-driven conglomerates. Our over 20+ years of industry experience will allow High Frequency to be well-perched within the market we envision. We will publish only the highest quality work—work we believe in wholeheartedly—work that bucks the new norm.
We created The New Guard and The Writer’s Hotel as good literary citizens, to serve writers and dig deep into writing craft. Writing shapes culture. Forward motion is necessary.
High Frequency will publish a handful of outstanding and overlooked books in the next few years, including some of our own original work. Our full-length book contests are The Skywave Fiction Contest and The Morse Code Poetry Contest. Winners in each category are given a $2000 prize and publication. Skywave winners will be published by HF and receive 25 copies and publication plus film and television agent referrals. Morse Code winners will also be published by HF and receive 25 copies; in lieu of agents, they will also get 15 poems published in our e-zine. We anticipate that High Frequency will publish The New Guard, but we will be taking a short hiatus for now as we focus on building the press. TNG is part of the inspiration for HF, and we have loved working with TNG writers for over a decade.
Stay tuned for our upcoming HFP Light Speed e-publications, which will feature a single short story, an essay or a cycle of poetry by our authors as a calling card for a forthcoming book.
Read about High Frequency Press, The Writer’s Hotel and The New Guard in Portland Press Herald! “Mainer moves writing conference from New York City back home”.
::For now, we are not accepting unsolicited submissions to our press. But our fiction and poetry contests will be in full swing until June 8!::
MEET HIGH FREQUENCY
Scott Wolven
“Scott Wolven’s feedback was honest and came from a place of respect and compassion. He told me what the stories needed and how to take the strengths and make them stronger. Receiving feedback is overwhelming, but with his guidance and support, I sat down and worked. I worked hard because his words, his honesty was exactly what I needed to hear to grow and challenge myself as a writer.” — Kerri Quinn, author and playwright
Shanna McNair
“Shanna McNair has an eagle-eye and a deep understanding of the intricacies of the writing process. As editor of The New Guard, she helped me bring my memoir/essay on Saul Bellow into focus and being. Thank you, Shanna! ”
— Fred Marchant, poet, scholar and author of Said Not Said and Tipping Point.