Washington Writers' Publishing House

11/20/2025

WWPH friends in Montgomery County, Maryland -- look what's on CHANNEL 21 at 8 pm tonight -- Thursday, November 20!!

WATCH our 50th anniversary special with GRACE CAVALIERI, E. ETHELBERT MILLER, ERIKA RASKIN, KATHLEEN WHEATON, and ARIS taped earlier this fall at The Writer's Center!

Watch now!! And stay in touch/follow us/submit your work to us/join us at one of our events in 2026!! We're not stopping at 50!

Details here:
https://montgomerycommunitymediatv.org/internetchannel/show/22116?site=2

11/20/2025

WWPH WRITES subscribers...

We have a fresh look/new email for WWPH WRITES... don't miss an issue... check your EMAIL... if not there, check your SPAM FOLDER and mark 'not spam' (hopefully, it's not in Spam... there's some really nice news about your WWPH in the new issue!).

We're excited for this new development... and we're open for submissions at WWPH WRITES. Free to submit! We are a paying market now, reaching almost 1,500 subscribers, and we are actively reading/selecting work for winter, 2026!!

https://washingtonwriters.org/wwph-writes/

WWPH Writes Please leave this field empty Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. WWPH Writes the bi-weekly lit mag from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, features one poet and prose writer in each issue, and all the news from your WWPH… September 19, 2025 Copy of T...

11/19/2025

A press-mate, our VP of Poetry...at recent WWPH reading ...an intense listener, reader, poet!! 💖

11/17/2025

Sunday 11.16.25 at the Reston Used Bookstore! ❤️all the writers from America's Future:poetry and prose in response to tomorrow-- and all who joined us!! A packed house!!!

Get your copy now! Submit your work to us!! we are going into 2026 ready to write on!! Publish more! Have all our voices heard!

11/17/2025

America's Future!! Some weird, some funny, some hopeful, a few that hit us in the gut or made us want to cry--this was Sunday night's amazing reading with writers from America's Future, our big/bold new anthology, at the Reston Used Bookstore in Reston, VA!! Thank you to all the readers! Thank you to all who showed up!

This was our 13th event for America's Future tjis fall-- big thank you to for hosting us!!

Get your copy of America's Future everywhere books are sold... or direct from your Washington Writers' Publishing House!! Next up is on December 11!!

11/17/2025

Pics from Sunday night-- Reston's Used Book Shop -- reading with writers from America's Future to a PACKED store- messages of fight on, keep going, together we will all see a better tomorrow for all-- hope, weirdness, humor, perseverance, resilience!! Thank you to all our readers! All who showed up! Big thank to Nathan Leslie and Reston Used Bookstore for hosting us!!

Get your copy of America's Future everywhere books are sold!

And we've done 13 events for America's Future -- one more set for December 11th MoCo Underground Writer's Showcase-- in person. Don't miss - join us Sandy Spring Museum!!

11/16/2025

Today! 5:30 pm! Join us!

11/15/2025

Dear WWPH Community,

We had a big year. We celebrated our 50th anniversary. We celebrated Pride and the diverse voices of our writing community with our first-ever pocket-sized mini-anthology, Capital Q***r: A Washington Writers' Publishing House PRIDE Celebration. We published AMERICA'S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow, featuring 164 writers over 526 pages. Now it’s time to look to that future. You can be a part of elevating the voices of the writers who will shape it. Your Washington Writers' Publishing House has been a 501c3 non-profit cooperative (all-volunteer) organization since our inception in 1975.

With our year-end campaign, we aim to raise the resources necessary to continue our work uplifting local authors from DC, Maryland, and Virginia, our community events, and WWPH Fellowships (paid internships) program.

Help uplift the voices of the future...The first 30 donations of $75 or more will receive a set of hand-crafted poetry broadsides. These sets include six frameable hand-pressed broadsides (12 x 9 works printed on high-quality paper) in a matching folder, the perfect gift for any literature lover. Each set includes poetry by Grace Cavalieri, E. Ethelbert Miller, Carolyn Forché, Holly Karapetkova, Sid Gold, and Eric Julian Baker, and original designs by Suzanne Feldman. All were created on 1930s letterpresses at the Frederick Book Arts Center in Maryland by volunteers from your WWPH!

Make your donation by December 5, and we will personally mail the letterpress sets in time for the holiday season.

Donate a secure link via our website here -- https://www.washingtonwriters.org/donate-help-us-fund-wwphs-future/

11/13/2025

A beautiful story about friendship/caregiving from Melanie Hatter is included in AMERICA'S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow...

Get your copy today!

Holiday pricing at www.washingtonwriters.org

11/13/2025

It's such a beautiful fall day in the DMV area, we are posting Baltimore writer Pat Schultheis reading from her short story THE SCALES OF BEAUTY in our big/bold new anthology AMERICA'S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow...

Get your copy today! Holiday price by purchasing direct at www.washingtonwriters.org

11/13/2025

A spotlight on a writer in AMERICA'S FUTURE: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow... Miguel Avero, whose poetry was translated by Jona Colson, and featured in our first work of translation - AGUAS - has powerful short fiction featured in AMERICA'S FUTURE.

He's one of 164 writers, 179 works, over 526 pages!!

Find the best price for our big/bold new anthology at www.washingtonwriters.org