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WWPH WRITES 128...more awe-inspiring TINY POEMS!
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- CAPITAL Translation. This is our 2027 entry in our 'Capital' series of pocket-sized anthologies...following in the path of the acclaimed Capital Queer (2025) and Capital Love (2026). Deadline: September 1.
- Worlds Beyond. Literary speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, or horror -- our inaugural poetry and fiction contest specifically seeks genre work that bends into the literary. Cash prizes and publication in WWPH WRITES in October. Special guest judge: Myna Chang. Deadline: September 15.
- 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.
Plus, we are spending our summer reading manuscripts for 2028 and preparing for our big January 2027 launch of award-winning books. Now all available for pre-order. More details here. We are looking ahead to fall with events at Lost City Books and KBIRD Bar in Washington, DC...free, all of you are invited!
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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… seeks fiction and literary nonfiction (up to 2000 words) from women writers.
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GRACE IN JUSTICE seeks to explore 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.
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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. Read more
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“Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence.” – George Steiner
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We are proud to announce a call for submissions for our third Capital anthology, Capital Translation. Submissions are now open via our Submittable site. DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 1st. Read more
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WWPH LITERARY SALONS
Our FREE community-based literary events continue with a WWPH LITERARY SALON at Lost City Books in Washington, DC, on Sunday, September 27, from 5-7 pm. RESERVE YOUR SEAT.
Our big wrap-up for this year's WWPH LITERARY SALONS is at KBIRD Bar in DC on Sunday, October 4th at 5 pm. A very happy Happy Hour with a WWPH Lit Salon & Capital Love reading & celebration. RESERVE YOUR SEAT.
Made possible with the support of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Find more details on featured readers, creative writing workshop leaders below...
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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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CAPITAL LOVE - the last WWPH Literary Salon of 2026 - The Big Wrap-Up Event!
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Join us at KBird Bar in Washington, DC, for our last literary salon for CAPITAL LOVE! We're celebrating our last CAPITAL LOVE event of 2026 by raising up our voices in love, hope, joy, and a happy hour drink or two! Join us for a creative writing workshop and a reading with contributors from CAPITAL LOVE. When: Sunday, October 4 …
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BACK TO SCHOOL!! 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 CLASSROOM DISCOUNT …
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Prose editor, WWPH Writes
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Enjoy the end of summer! We have a big fall planned at your Washington Writers' Publishing House. Keep reading WWPH WRITES for all our news.
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Poetry editor, WWPH Writes
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