HIGH FREQUENCY CONTESTS

THE Skywave Fiction Contest

& THE Morse Code Poetry Contest

Are you ready to submit your full-length manuscript to High Frequency Press? We’re excited to read your work. Dazzle us, astonish us. Try something new.

Winners in both categories receive $1500 and more. It is $35 to enter.

Skywave winners will be published by HFP 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 Light Speed. If a Skywave winner would rather opt to be published in Light Speed than the agent referrals, that’s fine. We’ll work with the winner on that.

We accept .doc and .docx files. International entries are welcome. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, provided we're notified upon publication elsewhere. Entrants have no submission entry limit. Each submission is carefully considered for publication.

For the Skywave Fiction Contest, please submit a novel or short story collection of 110K words or less. For the Morse Code Poetry Contest, manuscripts must be 90 pages of poetry or less.

Please submit previously unpublished work only. (Poets and short story writers may include previously published poems in their collection; same with short story writers. HFP does not want to publish a book that has already been published.) Any size print run or online publication of a full book (including self-publishing, blogs and/or social networking or video readings) disqualify an entry. We no longer accept entries via postal mail. All entries must come to us via Submittable; entry buttons are below.

High Frequency retains standard first publication rights; all rights revert to the writer six months after publication. Writers must be at least eighteen years of age to enter. 

These contests will be judged by Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven. Please submit writing that the judges have not read. Writers who have directly worked with either judge (via The Writer’s Hotel, The New Guard or other venue) may not enter that same novel, short story collection or poetry manuscript for the contest and will be disqualified. That said, poets may include single poems that have been read by TWH or TNG (just not full, previously TWH-workshopped collections. It is the same for short story collection writers: those writers may submit a story that has been previously read but not a full collection that has been previously read.) Deadline for entries is February 3, 2025.

High Frequency holds a membership with Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. We follow standard contest rule ethics.