WWPH Writes Issue 108…wraps up a very busy end of October for your Washington Writers’ Publishing House. This week, we announced our 2025 Fiction Prize Winner, Samantha Neugebauer of Washington, DC, for her debut short story collection, UNCERTAIN TIMES. Our new slate of books, which also includes poetry collections by Emily Holland, Jason Gebhardt, and Yael […]
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WWPH WRITES ISSUE 107
WWPH Writes Issue 107…and we are excited to share: We now have a YouTube channel, which showcases a special program from our 50th anniversary event. We are still buzzing about this celebration held last month at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. Take a look here at readings with Grace Cavalieri, E. Ethelbert Miller, Erika Raskin, Kathleen Wheaton, and poet-performing […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 106
WWPH Writes issue 106…and we are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2025 Poetry Prizes: Emily Holland, Jason Gebhardt, and Yael Kiken. We also recognize the finalists and thank all who submitted their manuscripts to us. More information on these award-winning poets and their books can be found here. Our fiction winner/finalists will be announced on or about November […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 105
WWPH Writes 105…and we are celebrating AMERICA’S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow, which is officially on sale in print and ebook versions today, September 9th! 164 writers. 526 pages. An anthology that “SPEAKS TO JOY AND RESILIENCE AMIDST POLITICAL TURMOIL IN THE UNITED STATES,” notes Poets & Writers in their September/October magazine. […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 90
WWPH Writes 90… remembers our beloved past WWPH president, Elisavietta “Lisa” Ritchie, and shares new works: Lois Perch Villamaire’s creative nonfiction flash, full of portent, Awake to the Blast of the Smoke Alarm, and Alex Carrigan’s uncanny poem, The Fables of Snakes. Big reminder: AMERICA’S FUTURE, our 50th-anniversary anthology of poetry and prose, has a […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 89
WWPH Writes 89… looks back and forward. We begin with remembering two poets with very special ties to the Washington Writers’ Publishing House: Myra Sklarew and Henry Taylor. In 2025, we look forward to finding new talents submitting to WWPH Writes–writers like Tanner Call and his allegorical flash story Skin to Stone, which shimmers in this […]
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 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 […]