Welcome to WWPH WRITES 55… our BIG second annual TINY POEMS edition! And if you are thinking of submitting to our 2024 manuscript contests in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction when the contest opens on September 1, please make sure you review our updated guidelines here, including our 50th Anniversary Fiction Award sponsored by […]
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WWPH WRITES ISSUE 54
Welcome to WWPH WRITES 54… We have two works to astound us with their precision, First Love: A Villanelle by David Bachner, and Mimosas at the Hotel Washington, flash fiction, set on a July night in DC, by Richard Peabody. And, we are eager to see your poetry of precision for our TINY POEM […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 53
Welcome to WWPH Writes 53…This issue is about child and parent relationships. In Heather Bruce Satrom’s poem, Learning to Fly, we see the parallels between a mother teaching her daughter freedom and her daughter teaching a bird to fly. In the novel excerpt from Michelle Brafman’s Swimming with Ghosts, a young […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 52
Welcome to WWPH Writes 52…our special PRIDE issue with the winners of our first annual WWPH PRIDE poetry and micro-prose contest! First-prize winners received $100, runner-ups $50, and all are publication here. Thank you to all who submitted. A special shout to our WWPH Fellow and judge Piérre Ramon Thomas–thank you for working […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 51
Welcome to WWPH Writes 51…Two breathtaking vivid moments highlight this issue of WWPH Writes from the gorgeous prose poetry of Dan Vera in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington DC to the American Arcadia novel excerpt from Laura Scalzo set in Manhattan in the 1980s. We’re looking for submissions for our first annual WWPH PRIDE […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 50
Welcome to WWPH Writes 50! We are so grateful to have made it to 50 issues, and we look forward to 50 more! In Wedding Poem, Danielle Badra, the current poet laureate of Fairfax County, celebrates vows on a wedding day—a beautifully crafted poem that bears witness to love and commitment. Kathleen Wheaton’s Redwood […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 49
Welcome to WWPH Writes 49…This issue has music, lots of music. In Michele Wolf’s poem, Child’s Violin, we listen to the music from a violin during a grandmother’s birthday celebration, and how such a small instrument can bring such joy. In an excerpt from Aaron Hamburger’s novel, Hotel Cuba, we feel the rhythm and […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 48
Welcome to WWPH Writes 48…We are celebrating the end of National Poetry Month with poetry by Sean Murphy and his bluesy, lyrical lines in DuBose Heyward’s Blues, and under our occasional interview feature, THE TOP FIVE, we have WWPH Fellow Lindsay Brown asking her five big questions of master poets Grace Cavalieri […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 47
Welcome to WWPH Writes 47…Spring has sprung, and we offer creative works about blossoms, birds, and loves. Kathi Wolfe’s poem, Blossoms, connects the life of the narrator and beloved aunt while lamenting a lover lost. In Birdsong by Bari Lynn Hein, we witness a transformation—a lover turned into a bird, thinking of […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 46
Welcome to WWPH Writes 46… In this issue, our writers do a deep dive into real-world issues of gun violence as well as life in DC for a twenty-something. In Chloe Yelena Miller’s vivid lament, Water Guns, a mother and son are playing on a hot summer day, and yet, play is […]