Washington Writers' Publishing House

11/07/2025

Monday night, we'll be here with the incredible The Inner Loop: A Literary Reading Series! Join us... registerhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/wwph-anthology-reading-tickets-1849702482919?aff=oddtdtcreator

11/07/2025

MONDAY NIGHT!! Your Washington Writers' Publishing House is teaming up with the incredible The Inner Loop: A Literary Reading Series and even more incredible writers from our big/bold new anthology!

JOIN US! Let us know you're coming here...
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wwph-anthology-reading-tickets-1849702482919?aff=oddtdtcreator

Copies of AMERICA'S FUTURE will be available - at a special holiday price!!

11/05/2025

"...So much depends upon this joy, that “rigorous emotion,” as Ross Gay calls it. With Miller’s poetry we go searching “inside the inside” of this upturned wheelbarrow and come out the other side refreshed by the reordering force of joy—Black hurricanes of it, revolutionary connections of it—that we might survive our love again." -- Scott Challener's in-depth article on master poet Ethelbert Miller in Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine

What's also so joyful is that one of the three poems highlighted in this article was originally published in THE MIGRANT, Ethelbert Miller's collection published by your Washington Writers' Publishing House in 1978!! Look carefully at the credit line for
the poem "Spanish Conversation." READ all in the November issue of Poetry magazine here...
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/1731735/the-color-of-ideas

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

11/04/2025

We love MoCo Underground Writer's Showcase!! Recently, two of our press-mates--the award-winning novelists VARUN GAURI (For The Blessings of Jupiter and Venus) and LEN KRUGER (Bad Questions) were there -- and here they are on video from the event! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU7R8iqbSww

MORE NEWS!!

On THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11 at 7:30 pm, your Washington Writers' Publishing House is partnering with MoCo Underground Writer's Showcase at the Sandy Spring Museum for our last reading event of 2025 for our big/bold new anthology AMERICA'S FUTURE! Please join us!! FREE! Holiday cookie reception for all!! FEATURED WRITERS from America's Future will be there including: editor Caroline Bock along with JESSICA SIMON, NEHA MISRA, FRAN ABRAMS, LAURIE WARD, KAY WHITE DREW, SARA FURDUI, EDWARD BELFAR, and JULIA TAGLIERE.

Open to all, but seats are limited! Please reserve your seat here https://ci.ovationtix.com/36765/production/1187457?performanceId=11576859

And first edition copies of AMERICA'S FUTURE will be on sale (a great holiday gift for the reader in your life!).

Join us!!

11/03/2025

Our last WWPH Literary Salon of 2025 was a blast of creativity today! Big thanks to our creative writing workshop leaders Melanie S. Hatter and Hannah Grieco -- and to all the featured readers from our big/bold new anthology America's Future.

This year, we undertook 8 Literary Salons-- one in each ward of DC-- and this one had a great vibe to wrap with -- bravo all!!!

Gratitude to-- DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Solid State Books and all who attended any one of our salons!!

More news coming regarding literary happening in 2026 soon!! Stay in touch --subscribe to our bi-weekly lit mag (it's free!) WWPH Writes at www. washingtonwriters.org.

Next up for your WWPH -- the Inner Loop Reading on Monday, November 10 at 7 pm at Shaw's Tavern in DC!! The Inner Loop: A Literary Reading Series Join us!!

11/02/2025

The Capitol Hill Poetry Group began on the Hill in 1975, when a group of poets came together to share and critique their work. To mark our 50th Anniversary, we are publishing The Other Side of the Hill—1975-2025, the 3rd anthology of our poems, and invite you to join us for readings, refreshments,...

11/02/2025

Many of our wonderful WWPH-pressmates -- including past presidents JEAN NORDHAUS and PATRIC PEPPER along with Mary Ann Larkin will be on this Zoom reading -- today, Sunday, November 2 at 5 pm -- free to all! 50 years!! Wow!!! Register for link here:

https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/celebrating-fifty-years-of-capitol-hill-poetry/

Hill Center

The Capitol Hill Poetry Group began on the Hill in 1975, when a group of poets came together to share and critique their work. To mark our 50th Anniversary, we are publishing The Other Side of the Hill—1975-2025, the 3rd anthology of our poems, and invite you to join us for readings, refreshments,...

11/02/2025

TODAY!! Sunday at 2 pm! Join us! Acclaimed writers Melanie S. Hatter and Hannah Grieco opening with creative writing workshops at 2 pm -- open to all, no experience needed. Meet our co-presidents, Caroline Bock and Jona Colson -- find out how you can get published with the Washington Writers' Publishing House, a DC literary institution! You just got an hour extra of sleep -- you can join us!!

More details at www.washingtonwriters.org

11/01/2025

November 1st is NATIONAL AUTHOR'S DAY!! We are here spotlighting four of the fabulous writers from our big/bold anthology, AMERICA'S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow.
We have 164 writers in this must-read anthology. 179 poetry, fiction, and essays. 526 pages. READ THEIR WORK.
More details-- including video samplings from the collection-- can be found on our website www.washingtonwriters.org

10/30/2025

WWPH WRITES 108 now live!

This issue features works from three acclaimed writers: poetry by Chet'la Sebree and Stacy L. Spencer along with short fiction by Hannah Grieco (Hannah will lead a creative writing workshop at our last WWPH Literary Salon of 2025 on Sunday, November 2nd at Solid State Books in Washington, DC. See below for details!)

Read on here... https://www.washingtonwriters.org/2025/10/30/wwph-writes-issue-108/

10/30/2025

Join us!! Solid State Books this Sunday! FREE! All invited to our Last Literary Salon of 2025!! Reserve your seat here www.washingtonwriters.org