Washington Writers' Publishing House
Washington Writers' Publishing House publishes poetry and prose (fiction or CNF) in a biweekly journal, WWPH Writes. The journal is featured on our website on the second and fourth Friday of every month. We are happy to consider never-published original prose (fiction or CNF) and poetry as well as reprints from recent or upcoming collections from writers living in Washington, D.C. Maryland and Virginia. We do not charge for submissions, but there is an optional tip jar to help us maintain the site.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please read all of the following guidelines carefully.
Eligibility: You must be a resident of the District of Columbia, Maryland or Virginia.
Prose - either short fiction or creative nonfiction, or a novel excerpt: Send one story or novel excerpt up to 1,000 words. Double-spaced, standard 12-point font. Please identify on your manuscript fiction or CNF. Word doc is preferred.
Poetry: Send a single file containing 1-3 poems (max. 5 pages). Standard 12-point font.
PLEASE NOTE: You may re-publish your work that appears on the site after 60 days, and we ask that you credit us in future publications.
Be sure to withdraw your submission immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
INQUIRIES: Email our editors at: wwphpress@gmail.com
The Washington Writers’ Publishing House, is a non-profit, cooperative literary organization that has published over 100 volumes of poetry since 1975 as well as fiction and nonfiction and works in translation. In 2021, WWPH launched an online literary journal, WWPH WRITES to expand our mission to further the creative work of writers in our region. WWPH frequently has calls for anthologies and contests. We seek full-length manuscripts via our annual contests. Please subscribe to WWPH WRITES, our bi-weekly lit mag, to stay connected to the Washington Writers' Publishing House...it's free to subscribe to and free to submit to! More about the Washington Writers' Publishing House at www.washingtonwriters.org
Washington Writers Publishing House publishes new poetry biweekly on our website and newsletter.
We are happy to consider never-published original poetry from writers living in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Submit 1-3 poems in ONE Word document not to exceed 5 pages. 12-point type, single-spaced.
Please provide a cover letter addressed to the appropriate editor with a biography of 30 words or less.
Please list your name as you would like it to appear in print.
Please limit your submission to once every year (two years for accepted poets) except for special calls or contests.
Payment
We are committed to paying authors. We are paying $25 for each piece. We only will send payments via snail mail check payment (this payment excludes reprints).
About half of our writers opt to waive payment as a way to support WWPH. Like many small literary journals, WWPH Writes is a labor of love. All support goes directly into increasing visibility for the writers we publish and their work. If you are interested in either option, please let us know.
Washington Writers Publishing House will be publishing new prose biweekly on WWPH Writes, our lit magazine available online and sent via email to over 1,500 subscribers.
We are happy to consider never-published original short fiction or CNF as well as reprints from recent or upcoming collections from writers living in Washington, D.C. Maryland and Virginia. 1000 words or less; 12-point type, double-spaced. Please indicate on your manuscript if it is fiction or CNF.
Please note that the 1000-word limit is ONLY for WWPH Writes.
Contributors of original work will be paid $25.00 (this payment excludes reprints- we hope our support and promotion of previously published work shows our support).
Please limit your submission to once per year except for special calls or contests.
GRACE IN JUSTICE… exploring the great divides in our nation today and the hope for a better tomorrow.
The distance between survival and security has never felt greater. Across our communities, rising housing costs, stagnant wages, mounting debt, and challenges to our basic dignity and basic rights as women are reshaping how people live, love, work, and dream. Behind every statistic is a story.
GRACE IN JUSTICE, the 12th volume of the acclaimed Grace & Gravity anthology series, seeks original full-length short stories and literary nonfiction (including flash and micros) that explore the many faces of inequality.
We invite women-identifying writers who reside in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia to examine the realities of housing insecurity, labor and wages, poverty, food insecurity, caregiving, class, generational wealth, systemic barriers—and the resilience that emerges in the face of adversity.
We are looking for prose that bears witness to struggle, challenges assumptions, reveals unexpected beauty, and illuminates lives too often overlooked.
Surprise us. Move us. Make us see the human experience behind the headlines. Whether your work is intimate or expansive, realist or speculative, we welcome stories and essays that confront inequality-- and injustice --with honesty, empathy, and exceptional craft.
Submit original fiction or literary nonfiction of up to 2,000 words and join a long tradition of celebrating the extraordinary voices of women writers throughout DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Deadline: November 15th. Length: maximum 2,000 words.
Submit via our Submittable site here
Fee: $15.00 Submittable fee. Limited financial hardship waivers available by contacting us at wwphpress @ gmail.com.
Contributor fee: $25.00 per work, plus 1 contributor copy. We plan to make every effort to invite all subscribers to read their work at a WWPH literary celebration for GRACE IN JUSTICE
