Capital Queer: A Pride Celebration from Washington Writers’ Publishing House spotlights bold queer voices from DC, Maryland, and Virginia—celebrating love, resilience, and identity in a powerful literary tribute to pride and community. It’s the first in a series of pocket-sized collections from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, showcasing our region’s rich cross-section of literary talent.

Winner of the 2014 Jean Feldman Prize at Washington Writers’ Publishing House, this debut collection explores the mysterious death of the speaker’s father, whether it was murder, suicide, or accident. These elegies focus more on the impact death has on the living kin, especially a child deciphering manhood with no guide, seeking redemption and faith […]

RUSH OF SHADOWS is an epic of greed and violence set in the American West of the 1850’s and 1860’s. A vividly imagined historical drama of racial tension on America’s last frontier….Newlywed Mellie Pickett…develops a friendship with a healer woman she calls Bahe…..Bell’s richly textured, well-researched narrative…captures the settlers’ varied attitudes toward Native Americans, as […]

AMERICA’S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow features 164 bold, thought-provoking writers and 179 works of poetry, fiction, essays, visual language, and more. The anthology arrives at an urgent moment in our nation’s history, when many are anxiously questioning: What are the possibilities for the future? Some pieces turn to our past, reckoning […]

From Depression era Mississippi to the suburbs of modern America, to the trials and tribulations of smart young women struggling to make a name for themselves in the arts, Feldman delves deep into the dreams and emotions of regular people and makes them beautiful and accessible. This prize-winning collection of short stories and two novellas, […]

The range of this collection is immense; from narrative and portrait to introspective lyric, these poems feel as relevant today as they did at the time of their original publication. Gold’s voice, full of the subtle wit and wry humor of the streets, makes readers feel as if someone is just pulling up a barstool […]

Robert Herschbach’s debut collection, Loose Weather, interweaves empirical observation with history, politics and myth. The resulting poems are lyrical yet ambitious in scope, searching out the root existential questions underlying our engagement with this world. With precise language and an artist’s eye for visual detail, this poet investigates the nature of exploration-geographical, cultural, psychological, erotic-as […]

Forty-seven stories about family-from flash fiction to full-length works, deeply felt, autobiographical fiction-unfold across the decades from the 1960s to the present day and reveal hopes and fears, truth and grief, and love. This award-winning, debut short story collection will break your heart and carry you home.

A knock-out debut that erases the boundaries of time and geography with unrestrained wit, The Machine Autocorrects Code to I holds its subjects—family members at odds with their hopes and fears, various fruits and animals constrained by the laws of humans, and an alien seeking beauty in the world – with tenderness and wry knowledge […]

An anthology of new fiction and poetry from Washington Writers’ Publishing House, a 47-year-old cooperative, all-volunteer press based in the nation’s capital. In This Is What America Looks Like, one hundred writers and poets from DC, Maryland and Virginia draw a portrait of the creative state of our union.