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 […]
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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: Issue # 41
WWPH WRITES THE HOLIDAYS Part 2 Welcome to our first issue of 2023! Christie Chapman’s “Box,” a finalist for the WWPH Writes the Holidays contest, asks us to consider what to box up, or hideaway. What are things we can only see once a year, and why? Madelyn Rosenberg’s poem, “Glue,” also a finalist, explores […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 40
WWPH WRITES THE HOLIDAYS Special WWPH WRITES THE HOLIDAYS! The second annual holiday special features winners of our prose and poetry contest, WWPH Writes the Holidays, judged this year by poet and WWPH press mate Brandel France de Bravo. Her prompt was to reflect on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s insight, “every word was once a poem.” […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 39
Welcome to Issue 39! In Nigel Assam’s “Halcyon Court (Backyard Trees),” the narrator describes the magic of a summer yard—speculating on the types of trees as the cicadas sing (something we may all long for now in the dark of December). In the excerpt from Martha Ann Toll’s acclaimed debut, Three Muses, we are also […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 38
Welcome to Issue 38 In this issue, we have a dichotomy of good and evil. The poem, “HIV Nightline” by Lane Falcon is about volunteering and “the spool of night unraveling.” Heartbreaking poetry. The trio of microfictions under the title “Bad People,” by Christie Chapman are also gems, the kind of tiny stories I love […]