Washington Writers' Publishing House
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WWPH WRITES 114... the issue before the big snow hits...with poetry by Maria Karametou and K.T. Mills, along with Zoe Carver's flash essay inspired by her last day in Washington DC (for now).
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Do you have a poem or a story about love with an edge? The binary of love/hate in this age of anxiety? We are seeking poetry (up to 14 lines) and micros (up to 250 words) for our 2026 'mini' sampler, Capital Love. See below for details, including specific prompts and what inspired us. Free to submit! Deadline is January 31st.
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Our friends at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore are seeking entries for their annual poetry contest for Maryland residents 18 years and older. Free to submit, and details are here.
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Stay warm! Read on and submit to Capital Love this weekend!
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Caroline Bock & Jona Colson
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Maria Karametou, a visual artist, writer, and professor, is from Athens, Greece. Her artworks are exhibited internationally in numerous venues. Awards include a Fulbright Research Scholar. Her first novel, The Amalgam, will be released in March 2026, with a Book Launch event at the Writer’s Center on March 28. Website: https://www.mariakarametou.com/fiction
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K.T. Mills lives in Washington DC, where she is an intermittent contributor at the Washington Review of Books. Her poetry has previously appeared in The Rialto, The Meadow, and Mud Season Review.
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10 LESSONS FROM THE DISTRICT
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- Consulting is as real as brewing coffee is as real as lobbying on the hill. Anyone can do anything, and the only skill you actually need is competence.
- Bagels Etc, has the best bagels in the district.
- Once you start referring to your community as your ‘network,’ something has gone completely and horribly wrong.
- People from the Midwest will continue to yearn for it, and deeply. People from the West Coast will sneak up on you, quiet in their differences, but different nonetheless. People from the East Coast will create a hierarchy among themselves that is arbitrary in every way.
- Pie Shop, Madam’s Organ, and Marx Cafe have the best live music.
- Saying hello to strangers in the street is actually really easy, and will make this cold and barren wasteland feel just a little bit warmer.
- People are nerds. Learn to play board games while drunk or die trying.
- Politics really can be everywhere, if you let it. This can be a good thing or a bad thing, but it all depends on whether or not you put people first in your practice.
- The monuments are beautiful and you will forget them every three to six months. Go to the National Mall when it feels most unnatural and enjoy.
- People are everything. They are power and they are love. They are politics and they are government, but they are also music and lifeguards and ice cream scoopers and your best friend and your next kiss. People are everywhere if you open your eyes to them. Keep those eyes open.
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Zoe Carver is an emerging writer based in Washington, DC, and currently on a writing fellowship at the American University in Cairo. She is the recipient of the Julian Clement Chase Writing in Washington Award. This piece was inspired by her last day in the district (for now).
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CAPITAL LOVE: A WWPH LOVE Celebration open for submissions
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CAPITAL LOVE: A Love Celebration from WWPH... CAPITAL LOVE builds on the success of our 2025 pocket mini-anthology, Capital Queer: A WWPH PRIDE Celebration, and we are eager to consider your work by January 31st. Submissions: Poems up to 14 lines. Submit up to 3 poems. Though we are open to free verse, we would love to see haiku, odes, and sonnets. Micro …
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WWPH WRITES is currently closed for submissions as we read and review poetry and prose for CAPITAL LOVE.
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We will reopen in February and will be looking for poetry and prose for our spring editions.
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America's Future - Special Educator discount and more for educators here...
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AMERICA'S FUTURE Educator's Guide
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We believe AMERICA'S FUTURE has a place in your classroom. With 179 works of poetry, fiction, essays, and visual language spanning 526 pages, it offers a rich mosaic of writers looking at what's next for our nation through a literary lens. We have developed sample lesson plans suitable for AP-level high school classes and college-level work. We offer a special …
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The countdown begins...one year until our award-winning books are published! And if you are interesting in submitting your manuscript length work to us, we open submissions on April 1st.
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Prose editor, WWPH Writes
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Poetry editor, WWPH Writes
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