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WWPH WRITES ISSUE 88

WWPH Writes 88… celebrates our year in review with links to some of our favorite issues of the past year.   We are going to be celebrating a lot in 2025 as we enter our 50th year. Join us and submit to AMERICA’S FUTURE. Send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for inclusion in our […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 87

WWPH Writes 87…starts our holiday celebrations with two illuminating works: Mel Edden’s BACKSTROKE and Emily Holland’s EVERYTHING THE LIGHT TOUCHES. We are going to be celebrating a lot in 2025 as we enter our 50th year. Join us and submit to AMERICA’S FUTURE. Send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for inclusion in our […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 87

WWPH Writes 87…starts our holiday celebrations with two illuminating works: Mel Edden’s BACKSTROKE and Emily Holland’s EVERYTHING THE LIGHT TOUCHES. We are going to be celebrating a lot in 2025 as we enter our 50th year. Join us and submit to AMERICA’S FUTURE. Send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for inclusion in our […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 86

WWPH Writes 86…This issue features two D.C.-based writers expansively writing outside of their more familiar genres– poetry from Bernardine ‘Dine’ Watson (known to many of our readers as the author of WWPH’s 2023 award-winning Transplant: A Memoir ) and David Ebenbach writing in the young adult genre, with a novel excerpt from his acclaimed Possible […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 85

WWPH WRITES 85… and we have two poems from our elders, Jean Nordhaus and the late Marvin Galvin, to bring us together and offer us words of wisdom. This November, we have several WWPH gatherings that we hope you will consider participating in…Friday, November 15 at 6 p.m. marks our first major event with the […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 84

WWPH Writes 84… features two moving, contemplative works,  EYES OF MONET, a new poem by Lora Berg, and TIME PASSES, a creative nonfiction essay excerpt from Andrew Bertaina. Join us at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda this Sunday, October 27th at 3 pm as we celebrate the launch of our 2024 award-winning books… For the […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 83

WWPH Writes 83…celebrates our 2024-award-winning books and more! Join us as we celebrate the launch of our 2024 award-winning books: For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus by Varun Gauri; UNARMED: An American Educator’s Memoir by Megan Doney; and The Machine Autocorrects Code to I by Chanlee Luu at Politics & Prose Bookstore (main store on […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 82

WWPH Writes 82…loves raindrops, Poe (and not the one you might expect), our 2024 award-winning books, which are officially on sale on October 8th, and so much more. Join us as we celebrate the launch of our 2024 award-winning books: For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus by Varun Gauri; UNARMED: An American Educator’s Memoir […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 81

WWPH Writes 81…shares wide-ranging intimacies in new work by poet Susan Scheid, SOVEREIGNTY, and creative nonfiction by Jill P. Strachan in LESBIAN LOVE AT TACO BELL. And our September includes us being out in the world: 50th-anniversary celebrations on Friday, September 13th at 6 pm at People’s Books in Takoma Park with our co-founder Grace […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 80

WWPH Writes 80…continues our TINY ODES special issues. Plus, your Washington Writers’ Publishing House has a big September planned… We kick off our 50th-anniversary celebrations on Friday, September 13th at 6 pm People’s Books in Takoma Park with our co-founder Grace Cavalieri and more. Please RSVP below to join us. We have a joyful reading […]