High Five Magazine
High Five will be open to submissions from May 30 through July 14, 2025.
If you submit anything before May 30, it will be rejected.
Hooray, hooray! It's spring, and the High Five team is looking forward to reading your submissions!
*New for 2025: Due to the high volume of submissions, we can only read five (5) submissions per author.
I know, this isn't what you expected or what would like to see, but with the magazine's limited page count, this is the limit that we feel will work best for us and for you.
How's this going to work? Make one submission with all five of your pieces attached.
Please note that five is the maximum number of submissions. Feel free to submit one or two if that's what you have!
Thank you for your interest in writing for High Five. We encourage you to become familiar with our magazine (library, bookstore, online) before you submit.
- We're looking for great stories, fresh voices, and nonfiction relevant to the lives and interests of children ages 2-6. We adore whimsical stories that will tickle readers' imaginations. We get excited by nonfiction that will teach kids (and parents!) something new.
- We're more interested in stories and nonfiction. Stories should delight, engage, and inspire young children ages 2-6. If your story has a young child as the protagonist, that child should be the one to solve the dilemma. (Don't forget that all stories should have a dilemma or a little problem that needs a solution.) Stories should be paced so that they fit on four magazine pages, with a maximum of 160 words total. Nonfiction should reflect what's interesting and comprehensible to a preschooler. We're more interested in insects than biographies.
- We're less interested in holiday content, gardening, 'a day in the life of,' and stories that don't have dialogue.
- We do not publish rebus stories, finger plays, stories longer than 160 words, or previously published works.
Please note: We do not accept work through Submittable (or through e-mail) from writers younger than 16. Young writers and artists may send their work to: Highlights, 803 Church Street, Honesdale, PA 18431. Or they may upload it at this link: https://www.highlightskids.com/asks/share-with-us/your-own-pages