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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 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 69

Welcome to issue 69… we are kicking off March, Women’s History Month, with Getting To Know The Neighbors by poet Shenandoah Sowash and A Rock Star of My Own, music-inspired creative nonfiction by Laura Sturza. Plus, a special shout out to our friends at The Inner Loop for doing all they do to promote authors in […]

WWPH WRITES ISSUE 68

Welcome to issue 68… we are amplifying the works of two writers with celebrated new books, poet Simon Shieh and fiction writer Elizabeth Bruce, and announcing the winners of our 2024 manuscript contests. We are grateful to all who shared their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry manuscripts with us. There is so much literary talent in […]