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WWPH WRITES 127...features our fourth annual TINY POEMS issue, and we are sharing our favorite lunes on AWE, and well, they're awesome.
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WWPH's Summer of Love Literary Salons continue. Come write with us, hear our contributors to Capital Love, and learn more about the Washington Writers' Publishing House and how you can be published with us at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore with award-winning poet/workshop leader Tonee Mae Moll on Sunday, August 23rd, and Lost City Books with award-winning novelist/workshop leader Len Kruger on Sunday, September 27th. Reserve your seat now. Details below.
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- Worlds Beyond. Literary speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, or horror -- our inaugural poetry and fiction contest specifically seeking genre work that bends into the literary. Cash prizes and publication in WWPH WRITES in October. Special guest judge: Myna Chang. Opens: August 1st.
- Grace & Gravity, volume 12, series editor: Caroline Bock, special guest editor: Melanie Hatter. The theme for the first-ever Grace & Gravity edited by the Washington Writers' Publishing House: GRACE IN JUSTICE. We seek fiction or literary nonfiction (up to 2,000 words) from women writers. Now open through November 15th. Publication in late 2027. See below for more details.
- CAPITAL Translation. This is our 2027 entry in our 'Capital' series of collectible anthologies...following the high bar of Capital Queer (2025) and Capital Love (2026). Deadline: September 1.
Plus, we are spending our summer reading manuscripts and preparing for our big January 2027 launch of award-winning books..Now all available for pre-order. More details here.
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Lastly, big shout-out of thanks to Jupiter Berrysmith and Victoria Sosa, WWPH FELLOWS, who helped review the over 100 TINY POEMS that we received!
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Read on to our awesome TINY POEMS!
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Caroline Bock & Jona Colson
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Submit your literary speculative fiction or poetry that takes us beyond the ordinary, specifically, beyond this world. Please limit your submission to one in either fiction or poetry. No fee. Special judge: Myna Chang. Opens: August 1st-September 15th. PRIZES: $100 first prize/$50 runner-up in each category. Publication for all in an October …
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GRACE IN JUSTICE NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
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GRACE IN JUSTICE… exploring the great divides in our nation today and the hope for a better tomorrow. The distance between survival and security has never felt greater. Across our communities, rising housing costs, stagnant wages, mounting debt, widening inequality, and challenges to our dignity and basic rights as women are reshaping how people live, love, work, and dream. Behind …
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WWPH WRITES SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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WWPH WRITES is now open for submissions once more! In each issue, we feature one poem and one work of prose (either fiction or creative nonfiction up to 1,000 words) from a writer in DC, Maryland, or Virginia. If you are a writer with a recent book, we will consider a reprint and a shout-out to your work. Reprints are …
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CAPITAL TRANSLATION: WWPH CELEBRATES LITERARY TRANSLATION IN THE DMV “Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence.” – George Steiner We are proud to announce a call for submissions for our third Capital Anthology, Capital Translation. Submissions are now open via our Submittable site. More details and guidelines are also below. Please read carefully. THE WASHINGTON WRITERS’ …
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WWPH LITERARY SALONS
Our community-based literary events continue at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore on Sunday, August 23, from 7-9 pm, and at Lost City Books in Washington, DC, on Sunday, September 27, from 5-7 pm!
Made possible with the support of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Maryland State Arts Council...and FREE! Reserve your seat now... link to more information below...
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Summer of Love at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore
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Welcome to the Summer of Love Tour, where Washington Writers’ Publishing House is bringing authors all over the DMV to celebrate our new mini-anthology, Capital Love. These writing salons will reflect the intention of Capital Love, which is the belief that love is the antidote to hate and that love is action, intent, healing, and hope. This event is designed to …
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Summer of Love at Lost City Books
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Welcome to the Summer of Love Tour, where Washington Writers’ Publishing House is bringing authors all over the DMV to celebrate our new mini-anthology, Capital Love. These writing salons will reflect the intention of Capital Love, which is the belief that love is the antidote to hate and that love is action, intent, healing, and hope. This event is designed to …
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For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus
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The WWPH award-winning FOR THE BLESSINGS OF JUPITER AND VENUS by Varun Gauri gets a big shout-out from PEN/Faulkner Foundation as a summer must-read (and we agree!)!
Find this acclaimed love story and novel of small-town American politics everywhere, including here...
https://bookshop.org/lists/2025-26-pen-faulkner-literary-event-titles
Here's more!
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Disillusioned with modern romance, globe-trotting Meena tries an arranged marriage with Avi, an aspiring politician in Ohio. But when Avi's political opponent launches racist attacks, Meena and Avi are forced to defend their immigrant community, which narrowly understands its own traditions, and protect their increasingly shaky relationship. This is an intimate, funny, and heartbreaking novel about small-town America and the …
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Last, thank you...for your beautiful support of my new novel, The Other Beautiful People (Regal House Publishing, 2026). Now available everywhere books/ebooks are sold...Join me at The Inner Loop on Tuesday, August 18th at Shaw's Tavern in DC at 7 pm. These are the coolest monthly lit bar readings in the DC area!! Free, of course. All invited! Let the folks at The Inner Loop know you are coming here.
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Prose editor, WWPH Writes
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Look for TINY POEMS: AWE Part II in our next issue of WWPH WRITES at the end of August! We are in awe of all of you! Thank you to everyone who submitted to this year's TINY POEMS.
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Poetry editor, WWPH Writes
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