Winner of the WWPH Jean Feldman Poetry Prize, Emily Holland’s urgent debut collection, Notifications On, interrogates fluctuations of lesbian desire across physical and digital landscapes. Against the backdrop of climate collapse, these places and platforms become sites of wanting, embodying locations where the speaker attempts to make their yearning—and their queerness—legible. Social media bots, rural […]

Winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s 50th Anniversary Editor’s Prize, Jason Gebhardt’s Dictionary of Air explores family, memory, and history with precision. From domestic quiet to historical echoes, each poem reveals how ordinary moments—washing dishes, caring for a child, remembering the dead—become luminous. With tenderness and humor, Gebhardt reminds us that love and attention […]

Winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Translation Prize, Zarpamos is the first complete collection of poetry translated into English from across the prolific career of Guadalupe Ángela. The poems, skillfully translated by Yael Kiken, traverse the rugged landscape of knowing–from how it feels to be invisible and naïve to the world and to oneself, […]

Villains by Samantha Neugebauer is the winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize. Set across the United States and around the globe, Neugebauer’s debut short story collection follows characters longing for purpose, enchantment, and love. Bound by conflicts arising from social hypocrisy, self-mythology, and shame, often within mother-daughter relationships, these thirteen stories expose […]

Coming in 2027, Capital Translation is the next publication in Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s pocket-sized anthology series. Capital Translation is a collection of new translated works by writers in the DMV celebrating the power of connection that language and translation offer.

CAPITAL LOVE from Washington Writers’ Publishing House is a bright and uplifting collection of poetry and prose for all those who believe love is the antidote to hate. The writing in these pages proves that love is shown in action, intent, healing, and hope. Capital Love is the second in a series of pocket-sized anthologies […]

Book of poems by Carly Sachs (2006).

Book of poems by Piotr Gwiazda(2005).

Book of poems by Patric Pepper(2006).

Book of poems by Bruce Mackinnon (2007).