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 104
WWPH Writes 104…continues our annual special issues of TINY POEMS…this year: AMERICAN HAIKU on celebration, resilience, and rebellion. We also have a very special trio of haiku (breaking out of the American Haiku form) from poet Grace Cavalieri. Our next big project, our 50th-anniversary anthology, AMERICA’S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow, launches […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 103
WWPH Writes 103…features our annual special issue of TINY POEMS…this year: AMERICAN HAIKU on celebration, resilience, and rebellion. These hemes resonated with many, and we received over a hundred submissions! In this issue and our next, you will discover a cross-section of thought-provoking American Haiku from across the DMV. Our next big project, AMERICA’S FUTURE: […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 102
WWPH Writes 102… spotlights MY FRIEND WANTS TO TALK ABOUT WAR, a poem by the versatile Laura Shovan, and the debut of a new author, Edwin Fenwick, Jr., a third-year MFA student at the University of Baltimore, with his moving creative nonfiction GHOST. Our next big project, AMERICA’S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to […]
WWPH WRITES ISSUE 101
WWPH Writes 101… features work that highlights the thrill of being young in “When We Were 25” by poet Sean Felix and the anxiety of a dystopian future in thrilling flash fiction by P.R. Titus’s “The Last Sunset.” The Deadline approaches (and it will not be extended). Our book-length manuscript contests are now open for […]
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 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 […]