High Frequency Press

High Frequency Press High Frequency is our response to a changing marketplace. Forward motion is necessary. New books! Larger presses are becoming celebrity-driven conglomerates.

A NOTE FROM HIGH FREQUENCY

High Frequency is a new press established by The New Guard and The Writer's Hotel. 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 liter

ary citizens, to serve writers and dig deep into writing craft. Writing shapes culture. High Frequency will publish a handful of outstanding and overlooked books in the next few years, including some of our own original work. And we’ll be running full-length manuscript contests: The Skywave Fiction Contest and The Morse Code Poetry Contest. 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 HF Light Speed E-Zines, which will feature a single short story, both printed and read, with a few extra treats included. Also coming soon: our interactive and collaborative literary world map, HF’s LitWorld.

::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!::

Rest in peace, Baron Wormser.
10/30/2025

Rest in peace, Baron Wormser.

Rest in peace, Baron Wormser (Oct 7, 2025). Your teaching, your grace. The expanse of your library and of your mind. What a generous soul and gorgeous human being. You will be missed. https://baronwormser.com/

"Anecdotes" by Baron Wormser

A moment from a life--a husband holding up
A tee-shirt for cursory inspection;
A child trudging home from a dull school day;
A tree in heavy wind--when placed within

The careful rails of verse acquires the dear,
Facile pout of meaning. It's a feeling
Rather than a faith since faith knows
Its way beforehand, while this telling us

A seeking. We read under the beneficence
Of a minor spell. Even the pain comforts:
Any life does; any avenue counts.
The man recalls a Sunday softball game;
The child stops at a puddle and peers into
Gorgeous nothingness; the tree falls or doesn't.

High Frequency Press novel debut launch today! RAVEN (Thriller) by Robert T. Kelley. Congratulations, Rob! His launch in...
10/28/2025

High Frequency Press novel debut launch today! RAVEN (Thriller) by Robert T. Kelley. Congratulations, Rob! His launch in Maine is tomorrow, October 29th at 5:00 p.m. at Jackson Memorial Library in Port Clyde.

https://www.highfrequencypress.com/catalogue/p/raven-debut-novel-by-robert-t-kelley-thriller

MORE ABOUT RAVEN:
During the waning days of the Cold War and the dawning of the internet, computer hacker Raven has been selling high technology secrets to the Soviet Union and eluding capture by the FBI. Recently expelled college student Mev Hayes unexpectedly lands a position at a top lab at MIT where she’s encouraged to continue her controversial computer research. But when the search for Raven points her way, Mev finds that opportunity comes at a cost in a struggle for technological dominance.

During the waning days of the Cold War and the dawning of the internet, computer hacker Raven has been selling high technology secrets to the Soviet Union and eluding capture by the FBI. Recently expelled college student Mev Hayes unexpectedly lands a position at a top lab at MIT where she’s encou

Two High Frequency Press debuts dropping this week! Allison Muir's "Sugar House" (Fabulist Literary Fiction: Alternate H...
10/22/2025

Two High Frequency Press debuts dropping this week! Allison Muir's "Sugar House" (Fabulist Literary Fiction: Alternate History) and Sean Pauzauskie's "Stage of Fools," Book One of The Thomas Mariner Neurotechnology Trilogy (Literary Fiction). Congratulations, Allison and Sean!

High Frequency Press Director Shanna McNair's illustrated debut "Soul Retrieval" placed as a quarter finalist for the Bo...
10/22/2025

High Frequency Press Director Shanna McNair's illustrated debut "Soul Retrieval" placed as a quarter finalist for the BookLlife prize in fiction! Thanks to Booklife-community and congrats to Shanna! https://booklife.com/authors/10/17/2025/announcing-the-booklife-prize-quarterfinalists.html Thanks to Booklife-community!
Here is the "Soul Retrieval" page on BookLife, which includes the Prize's critic's report and book review https://booklife.com/project/soul-retrieval-100532 Learn more about Shanna at www.shannamcnair.com

High Frequency Press Editor Scott Wolven on Vigilante Mag substack!
09/14/2025

High Frequency Press Editor Scott Wolven on Vigilante Mag substack!

Listen now | A discussion of literary noir crime short stories and their master

The Writer's Hotel 2026 Poet Shawn Keller recorded his spectacular poem with a piano accompaniment by Aaron Brown: "Eulo...
09/12/2025

The Writer's Hotel 2026 Poet Shawn Keller recorded his spectacular poem with a piano accompaniment by Aaron Brown: "Eulogy for Jack Elam". Click the link below!

Listen to jack elam sk MJG_1 by Shawn Keller on

High Frequency Press Founder Shanna McNair has an upcoming solo art exhibit and reading at University of Maine at Farmin...
09/02/2025

High Frequency Press Founder Shanna McNair has an upcoming solo art exhibit and reading at University of Maine at Farmington's Emery Center September 25th! The event, "You Know This by Heart: New and Selected Work by Shanna McNair" is to celebrate McNair's new illustrated debut novel, "Soul Retrieval" (High Frequency Press, 2025). Congratulations, Shanna!

Phenomenal!! High Frequency Press Editor Scott Wolven's new story collection, "Hundred Proof" (High Frequency Press, 202...
08/27/2025

Phenomenal!! High Frequency Press Editor Scott Wolven's new story collection, "Hundred Proof" (High Frequency Press, 2025) gets a write-up by author and Plots with Guns Editor Gonzalo Baeza. "From the Darkest Recesses of Noir: On Scott Wolven’s Hundred Proof." What a read!! Congratulations, Scott!

Twenty years after his first short story collection earned him the attention of writers like Richard Ford and George Pelecanos, a master of the form is back with new genre-defining crime fiction.

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