Skywave Fiction Contest Submission
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Are you ready to submit your full-length fiction manuscript to the Skywave Fiction Contest via High Frequency Press? We’re excited to read your work! Dazzle us, astonish us. Try something new. Skywave Fiction 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.
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 receive $1500 and more. Skywave winners will be published by HF and receive 25 copies and publication plus film and television agent referrals. If a Skywave winner would rather opt for the Light Speed E-zine than the agent referrals, that’s fine. We’ll work with the winner on that.
Skywave Fiction Contest entrants may submit a novel or short story collection of 110K words 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Please submit previously unpublished work only.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.