Www Welcome to WWPH Writes 59! We are thrilled to share excerpts from our 2023 award-winning books by K. Avvirin Berlin, Len Kruger, and Bernardine “Dine” Watson. As a cooperative, independent, nonprofit, literary small press, we have been publishing books for almost 50 years! In 1975, the Washington Writers’ Publishing House was launched by four poets, including Grace […]
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WWPH WRITES ISSUE 58
Www Welcome to WWPH Writes 58. As an editor at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, it is highly unusual to receive a hard copy submission. In this digital age, there are many ways to reach us (Submittable is the best way to send us your work). However, when I received a letter from Raheem A.Rahman, […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 57
Welcome to WWPH WRITES 57! This issue concerns beginnings—beginnings of journeys or life. In the poem Greening by Christina Daub, the narrator meditates on life, life yet to be born—an “island erupting/ into existence from the bottom.” In the short fiction Last Night I Did Something So Funny by Eliza Falk, the day after […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 21
Welcome to Issue 21! We have two sense-drenched works to share: the “ephemera” of cherry blossoms in Otito Greg-Obi‘s vivid poem “Cherry Blossoms” and Cameron MacKenzie’s equally alive and spring-infused flash fiction, “Umbrella.” (I had to look it up–this year’s 110th Cherry Blossom Festival is March 20-April 17 in Washington DC). Read about our special […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 20
Welcome to Issue 20! This issue brings together two ideas of home—one remembered with nostalgia, the other “perfect home” undesired and somewhat feared. How do we think of spaces that we occupy, and what is the definition of home. Susan Mockler’s poem “Snowdrift” and Abby Crofton’s “The Perfect Home” offer two different approaches to consider […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 19
Gatherings are happening again in our writing, after so long an isolation–a moment captured at Miriam’s Kitchen in DC in Bonnie Naradzy’s poem “Life Is Like The Flight of Bede’s Sparrow,” and with a couple, who connects and disconnects over a Happy Meal, in Len Kruger’s “Collectors.” Plus, see below for a special call for […]