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WWPH WRITES 112... wraps up 2025, our 50th anniversary year! We've included links to some of our favorite issues from our 2025:
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And, in case you missed it from our last issue, some WWPH WRITES insider's news...This year, we launched our first mini, pocket-sized anthology, Capital Queer: A PRIDE Celebration, and we had such an outpouring of support for this collection that we are doing a second pocket-sized anthology in 2026. Official announcement is set for the first week in January (make sure you follow us on social media!). However, since you subscribe to WWPH WRITES, here's the scoop: this pocket anthology will have a one-month open submissions period from January 3-January 31st. The theme: CAPITAL LOVE. The Washington Writers' Publishing House wants to celebrate love in all its enormity. We want to give the power to love. We want works about love as an antidote to these anxious times. Open to all writers in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, and those with connections to this area. We will seek poems up to 14 lines and stories (fiction or literary nonfiction) up to 250 words. A more detailed prompt and additional information will be shared by January 3. Target publication date is May 2026!
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Our 2025 Year-End Giving Campaign is now underway. Please consider a donation to your Washington Writers' Publishing House (501c3 nonprofit since 1975!) to further our efforts to publish and celebrate writers from DC, Maryland, and Virginia, to fund our WWPH Fellowship program, and to continue to grow as a vital and vibrant literary force. More details on how to donate here.
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Onward to 2026 with renewed creative energy for us all! Happy and safe New Year!
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Caroline Bock & Jona Colson
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MORE TO BE GRATEFUL FOR... we are grateful to everyone who submitted to our 2025 manuscript contests, to all our press-mates who read and reviewed the record number of manuscripts, and to these winning selections. Look for news throughout 2026 on their books--and for publication on January 26, 2027. Plus, for those planners, we open our 2026 manuscript contests in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (memoir or essay) from April 1 to June 30th. Details are available here.
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More to be grateful for....
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More to be grateful for... all our WWPH press-mates who helped us create over a dozen VIDEO READINGS of their work from our landmark anthology AMERICA'S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow. This was a major first-time video undertaking for your Washington Writers' Publishing House. Watch them here.
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More to be grateful for... all our literary friends in the DMV from the Writer's Center, who hosted our 50th anniversary celebration, to The Inner Loop, Reston Used Bookshop, and MoCo Underground, all of which partnered with us on literary events for AMERICA'S FUTURE. MoCo Underground and the very wonderful Julia Tagliere arranged to have their very last reading of 2025, held on December 11, taped. View the program here.
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DONATE today to your Washington Writers' Publishing House and keep us going strong for another 50 years, supporting writers in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. All donations greatly appreciated! More information and easy ways to donate here.
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For the best value--and the most support to your Washington Writers' Publishing House--order AMERICA'S FUTURE with WWPH DIRECT. ORDER here or use your gift card everywhere books are sold!
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WWPH WRITES is open for submissions, and we are actively reading for the spring of 2026. We are now a paying market ($25.00, which we encourage you to pay forward and use it to purchase a book from a small press). We are looking for poetry (up to 3 poems) and prose (up to 1,000 words of fiction or creative nonfiction). Free to submit.
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And please share WWPH WRITES with others you think will be interested! It's free to subscribe. Help us reach 1,500 subscribers in 2026 (we are at 1303!)
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Prose editor, WWPH Writes
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Poetry editor, WWPH Writes
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