Are you ready to submit your full-length poetry manuscript to the Morse Code Poetry Contest via High Frequency Press? We’re excited to read your work! Dazzle us, astonish us. Try something new. Morse Code Contest winners receive $1500 and more. There will be one winner per contest cycle. The winner's book will be published in Spring, 2027. Deadline is February 3, 2025.

Morse Code winners will  be published by HF and receive 25 copies and will get 15 poems published in Light Speed E-Zine. 

Morse Code Poetry Contest manuscripts must be 90 pages of poetry or less. 

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. 

Please submit previously unpublished work only. Any size print run or online publication (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 this Submittable portal. 

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. 

This contest 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 poetry manuscript for the contest, and will be disqualified. 

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