HIGH FREQUENCY CONTESTS
HIGH FREQUENCY PRESS 2026
OUR HF BOOK CONTEST WINNERS!
Thank you to all who entered the Skywave Fiction Contest and the Morse Code Poetry Contest. It’s been an honor to read your work. We had entries come in from all over the world.
This was an extremely tough contest to judge. But we have found our two winners.
DRUM ROLL, PLEASE!
The Skywave Fiction Contest winner is Van Newell, for his story collection, His Eye Is on the Sparrow. Each story is set in a different state in the Deep South, with an eye to regional cooking and food.
The Morse Code Poetry contest winner is Elisabeth Murawski, for her collection entitled Fantail. The poet returns to the childhood that shaped her, ranging from questions of faith to the grief that comes from losing a child. Murawski notes: "Hope shows up for the feast in a faded dress."
THE SKYWAVE FICTION CONTEST WINNER
Van Newell has been awarded the Hackney Award, the Alabama Writers Conclave Award, and a Fellowship from the United States Department of Education America Reads Program. He has also been short-listed for a Pushcart Prize, a Humanitas Fellowship, the SideWrite Prize, and the Lascaux Prize.
THE MORSE CODE POETRY CONTEST WINNER
Elisabeth Murawski is the author of the recently published Alias Irene, as well as Heiress (Poetry Society of Virginia Award), Zorba’s Daughter (May Swenson Poetry Award), Moon and Mercury, and four chapbooks. Still Life with Timex won the Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize.