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Washington Writers' Publishing House Washington Writers' Publishing House is a non-profit, literary press established in 1975.

Washington Writers' Publishing House is a non-profit, all-volunteer cooperative press that has published over 50 volumes of poetry since 1975 and so far nearly a dozen volumes of fiction. The press sponsors an annual competition, featured in Poets & Writers, for writers living in DC, Maryland or Virginia (one each in poetry, fiction and new in 2023, creative nonfiction) comprise our set of published works each year.

Hey !! Ohio-native and award-winning Washington Writers' Publishing House author Varun Gauri --author of FOR THE BLESSI...
11/07/2025

Hey !! Ohio-native and award-winning Washington Writers' Publishing House author Varun Gauri --author of FOR THE BLESSINGS OF JUPITER AND VENUS-- will be at the COLUMBUS BOOK FESTIVAL this weekend!
More information at https://www.columbusbookfestival.org/

TGIF, world!

So nice to see our call for manuscript submissions shared!! $1500 prize. Publication.Poetry, Fiction, and Poetry in Tran...
08/07/2025

So nice to see our call for manuscript submissions shared!!
$1500 prize. Publication.
Poetry, Fiction, and Poetry in Translation
$28.00 to submit
July 15th deadline.

Writers and translators who are residents of DC, Maryland, and Virginia are invited to submit to Washington Writers' Publishing House! Send in novels, poetry collections, and short story collections to their contests by July 15: https://www.clmp.org/programs-opportunities/calls-for-submissions/

Last chance! Closes tonight at 11:59 pm!
06/07/2025

Last chance! Closes tonight at 11:59 pm!

DC, Maryland, and Virginia writers: Be part of our beautiful press -- celebrating 50 years! Submit now (or by July 15th!...
05/07/2025

DC, Maryland, and Virginia writers: Be part of our beautiful press -- celebrating 50 years! Submit now (or by July 15th!!)

More details/FAQs at www.washingtonwriters.org

DC, Maryland, and Virginia writers -- Happy 4th! Deadline this Sunday, JULY 6th! Time to write your American Haiku...Mor...
04/07/2025

DC, Maryland, and Virginia writers -- Happy 4th! Deadline this Sunday, JULY 6th! Time to write your American Haiku...

More details at www.washingtonwriters.org

An inspiration (not a haiku but a meditation on America celebration, resilience, rebellion)... https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again ... "Let America Be America Again..." by Langston Hughes.

Write on! Enjoy the day!

We want your TINY POEM!! Free to submit! Deadline THIS SUNDAY JULY 6th. Send us three lines on celebration or resilience...
03/07/2025

We want your TINY POEM!! Free to submit! Deadline THIS SUNDAY JULY 6th. Send us three lines on celebration or resilience or rebellion and we will publish lots of TINY POEMS in August online issues of WWPH WRITES!!

More details/examples at www.washingtonwriters.org

😎

DC, Maryland, and Virginia translators, we heard you, and we have opened our first-ever Poetry In Translation Award to p...
02/07/2025

DC, Maryland, and Virginia translators, we heard you, and we have opened our first-ever Poetry In Translation Award to poetry translations from ALL LANGUAGES across the globe!

Please look at our guidelines at www.washingtonwriters.org

Please submit to us at www.wwph.submittable.com ($28.00 to submit to help us cover Submittable fees and to pay it forward for our writers!). Deadline is July 15th. We are eager to read your work!

WE'VE HIT our 100th issue of WWPH WRITES, our little lit mag!! Thank you to all the writers and readers who have helped ...
27/06/2025

WE'VE HIT our 100th issue of WWPH WRITES, our little lit mag!! Thank you to all the writers and readers who have helped us reach this milestone!! Our 100th issue is now live here
https://www.washingtonwriters.org/2025/06/27/wwph-writes-issue-100/

Plus, we are OPEN FOR MANUSCRIPTS and so much more happening!

TGIF all! Caroline

world!! If you are looking ahead to Monday, June 30th we have a fabulous free WWPH Literary Salon going on... join us ...
27/06/2025

world!! If you are looking ahead to Monday, June 30th we have a fabulous free WWPH Literary Salon going on... join us and many of the writers from CAPITAL Q***R!
SPOTS are going fast! So please RSVP at https://withfriends.events/list/kqhqse6s/

And we're working on the new issue of WWPH Writes, so stay tuned for more soon!

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Washington Writers' Publishing House is a non-profit organization that has published over 50 volumes of poetry since 1973 and so far nearly a dozen volumes of fiction. The press sponsors an annual competition, featured in Poets & Writers, for writers living in the Washington-Baltimore area, and the winners of each category (one each in poetry and fiction) comprise our set of published works each year.