WWPH Writes 98… and it’s Q&A for the End of the World, the innovative collaborative poetry collection from Kim Roberts and Michael Gushue, featured in this issue. We are also celebrating the publication of our first-ever pocket-size anthology, CAPITAL QUEER: A Pride Celebration, which is now available for pre-orders (official pub date is Tuesday, May […]
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WWPH WRITES ISSUE 75
WWPH Writes 75…To help celebrate PRIDE, this issue of WWPH Writes is dedicated to the Pride Fellows at the Arts Club of Washington: Regie Cabico, Ishanee Chanda, Hiram Larew, and Michelle Parkerson. I am also thrilled to be part of this talented group. The Pride Poetry Residency at the Arts Club was started by local poet […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 66
Www Welcome to Issue 66. We have writing that darkly plays with form and voice this week in the work of Virginia writers Philip Raisor and Steve Bills. We have news about WRITING THE DMV reading and celebration kick-off at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference with our friends at Day Eight […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 65
Www Happy New Year! Welcome to Issue 65. This issue has many surprises. Miho Kinnas and E. Ethelbert Miller have collaborated on poems, what Ethelbert calls “twoness poems.” Their poem, What Should We Do with All This History?, begins with this question but ends, “Every dictator believes in resurrection.” Read it to see how these masterful poets arrive […]
WWPH WRITES THE HOLIDAYS SPECIAL ISSUE 64
Www WWPH Writes 64…writes the holidays! Read the first-prize winners of our third annual WWPH WRITES the Holidays contest, judged by Kim Roberts. And please consider an end-of-year donation to your Washington Writers’ Publishing House. We plan to kick off our 50th-anniversary literary celebrations in 2024 with your help. Upcoming events include AWP in Kansas […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 63
Www WWPH Writes 63… seeks love this holiday season with two heartfelt works… Misfortune of the Perpetually Single Gay Male Romantic by Piérre Ramon Thomas and …nothing like the sun by Jamie Kern. Congratulations to our WWPH Writes the Holidays winners! Thank you to all who entered our end-of-year tradition here at the Washington Writers’ […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 62
Www WWPH Writes 62… is about appreciation. In Jack Jacobs’ poem Avenue, the speaker realizes their appreciation for the unknown with this revelation, “Mystery holds the key/To joy,” and in Barbara A. Wanchisen’s creative nonfiction, Ten Years Later, the narrative is all about finding peace and appreciation in the act of memorializing a loved one. […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 61
Www Welcome to WWPH Writes 61… This issue features two very different pieces linked by observation and craft. In Kim Roberts’ poem, Gertrude Stein, the narrator meditates on the famous writer and her relationship—what they think and do in love. In The Bus, flash fiction by Olubunmi Adeloye, the speaker keenly sees their fellow bus […]
WWPH Writes with THE CAREER ACADEMY: Issue # 25
Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to a special issue of WWPH Writes featuring the work of young writers from the Career Academy, an alternative public high school in Baltimore. This project was a first for the Washington Writers’ Publishing House—to use our acclaimed anthology, This Is What America Looks Like: Poetry & […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 24
Welcome to Issue 24! This issue takes a look at ways in which the narrators confront memory and challenges. In Jessica Simon’s “Stuffed Dragons,” the narrator reflects on childhood time by the sea, and though not all memories are sweet, they are still part of who we are. In “The Rest of My Life Might […]