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!::

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!

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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.

High Frequency Press Editor Scott Wolven on CrimeReads today. We're all so proud of Scott! Congrats! And what a brillian...
08/14/2025

High Frequency Press Editor Scott Wolven on CrimeReads today. We're all so proud of Scott! Congrats! And what a brilliant article and interview by Nicolás Ferraro. BOOM! If you don't know, now you know...

Twenty years ago, Scott Wolven published Controlled Burn and became the king of noir stories. Seven consecutive years of being selected for “Best American Mystery Stories” backed up that reputation…

Great book signing at Sherman's Maine Coast Bookshop this afternoon! Thanks for the pic, Nancy Coleman!
08/09/2025

Great book signing at Sherman's Maine Coast Bookshop this afternoon! Thanks for the pic, Nancy Coleman!

Maine writers and readers: you don't want to miss this! Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven, High Frequency Press and The Wri...
08/07/2025

Maine writers and readers: you don't want to miss this! Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven, High Frequency Press and The Writer's Hotel Directors are signing their new books at the great Sherman's Maine Coast Bookshop this Saturday, 12-3 p.m.! Come on down to the Topsham location and get your book signed! Shanna's "Soul Retrieval" is a gritty, lyrical reimagining of Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, "The Prophet." Scott's new collection of noir stories will knock you out. Join us!!

Topsham has the rare honor of hosting two authors for one book signing! Come meet married couple Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven and get a copy of one of their books (or both!) signed!

Mainers! TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT at Print: A Bookstore 7-8:30p.m. in Portland! The Writer's Hotel and High Frequency Press ...
06/26/2025

Mainers! TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT at Print: A Bookstore 7-8:30p.m. in Portland! The Writer's Hotel and High Frequency Press Founders Shanna McNair & Scott Wolven will be reading from their new releases, "Soul Retrieval" (debut novel) and "Hundred Proof" (noir stories) at a "husband and wife book launch" tonight. See you there!

EVENTS Jun 26 High Frequency Press Co-Founders Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven: a husband and wife book launch! June 26, 7-8:30 p.m. at Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine. Thursday, June 26, 2025 7:00 PM 8:30 PM Print: A Bookstore (map) Google Calendar ICS Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven: a hus...

Today is the day! Launch day! Seven High Frequency Press authors are launching books today on June 26th. The Writer's H...
06/26/2025

Today is the day! Launch day! Seven High Frequency Press authors are launching books today on June 26th. The Writer's Hotel and HF Founders Shanna McNair (Literary novel debut "Soul Retrieval") and Scott Wolven (Noir stories "Hundred Proof")! AND!! TWH alums Alexandra Addams (Literary novel debut "The Self-Made Saint"); Melanie Anagnos (Literary Crime novel debut "Nightswimming"); Julie Price Carpenter (Humor/Fantasy debut "The Last Train Out of Hell"); Timothy D**e (Memoir debut "Backbends); Eileen T. Lynch (Literary novel debut "Splenditude"). All drop today! Congrats to all! Head on over to www.highfrequencypress.com to order your copies--or visit your favorite local bookstore to order copies. You don't want to miss out on these books!

High Frequency Press debut novelist Melanie Anagnos ("Nightswimming", June 2025) in CrimeReads! What a great article. Co...
06/25/2025

High Frequency Press debut novelist Melanie Anagnos ("Nightswimming", June 2025) in CrimeReads! What a great article. Congrats, Melanie! https://crimereads.com/new-jersey-nordic-noir/

Learn more about Melanie and "Nightswimming" here on HFP:
https://www.highfrequencypress.com/catalogue/p/nightswimming-a-jamie-palmieri-mystery-debut-novel-by-melanie-anagnos-crime

Paterson, New Jersey, 1979: Jamie Palmieri is an up-and-coming patrol officer, frustrated with his slow rise to detective. That all changes one frigid night in January, when a double homicide at a local bar leaves the owner and a young woman dead. In the wake of the Rubin “Hurricane” Carter proc...

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