Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to our first issue of 2022! We are featuring the fabulous finalists of our WWPH WRITES THE HOLIDAYS contest: poet Christopher Ankney and fiction writer Julia Tagliere. Congratulations again to our prize-winners Fran Abrams and Monica Rodman (find their work here in issue 16), and […]
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WWPH Writes: Issue # 16
Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV WWPH WRITES SPECIAL HOLIDAY EDITION Here comes…our first holiday issue featuring the winners of our inaugural WWPH WRITES THE HOLIDAYS contest, Fran Abrams and Monica Rodman. A reminder that WWPH WRITES has free subscriptions and submissions; it’s our joy to spotlight the writers of the DMV […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 15
Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to Issue #15 I love the beach in winter, which drew me to Sheila Janega’s moving flash fiction, “Winter Beach.” Janega captures the moment when a young girl, amid the wintry beauty of the beach, readies to leave her childhood. Nature is also at the […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 14
Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to Issue #14 A poem. A story. About going home, finding a home. On the day after Thanksgiving, we think about home and belonging—where do we find them and how? Persky’s poem states that “by necessity we move” to find a safe place and Nicholas’ […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 13
Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to Issue #13 Admit this to everyone: I love the intensity of Leslie Pietrzyk’s fiction. Pair her story “Admit This To No One” with Serena Agusto-Cox’s equally as timely and exacting poem, “Thanksgiving,” and we have a blockbuster edition of WWPH Writes to share with […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 12
Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to Issue #12 In this season of ghosts, WWPH Writes issue #12 spotlights poet Sid Gold, whose Hebrew Home for the Aged is a tribute to his bedridden grandmother, like a dried fig, once a fiery Litvak seamstress hiding Anarchist pamphlets in pots. In Last […]
WWPH Writes: Issue # 11
Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Welcome to Issue #11 There’s a ferocity to the writing in WWPH Writes issue #11, which features the poet Lucinda Marshall and novelist Aliza Epstein. This line of Marshall’s poem, “Ebb Tide” has its own propulsion: “I wonder/ with a fierceness/what becomes of us,/of who we are/ […]
WWPH Writes: Second Issue
Dedicated to Poetry & Fiction Writers in the DMV Our second issue! We have only just begun, but as a bi-weekly, I counted that we have ‘only’ 14 more issues for the year. We are open to submissions for these issues. We are looking for unpublished poetry or short fiction from any writer who is […]