WWPH Awarded Small Projects Grant By D.C. Commission On The Arts And Humanities

For Immediate Release: February 5, 2008
202-841-7182 wwphpress@gmail.com

2007 Fiction Winner Elizabeth Bruce Awarded Poet & Writers, Inc., Readings Grant Awards Support Readings/Open Mics In 4 DC Public Libraries

Washington Writers' Publishing House, a small, collective literary press launched in 1973, was recently awarded a $1,000 Small Projects Grant by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities to sponsor four Literary Readings and Open Mics in D.C. Public Libraries in Wards 1, 4, 5, and 7. Additionally, 2007 WWPH Fiction Winner Elizabeth Bruce has been awarded a small grant from the Readings and Workshops Program of the national organization, Poets & Writers, Inc., to participate in three of these readings.

To feature readings from both 2007 and 2008 Poetry and Fiction Prize Winners—2007: Bruce MacKinnon's poetry volume, Mystery Schools, and Elizabeth Bruce's debut novel, And Silent Left the Place, and 2008: Brandel France de Bravo's poetry volume, Provenance, and David A. Taylor's short story collection, Success: Stories—these readings will also include other WWPH authors or poets, as well as prose or poetry open mic readers from Writers on the Green Line (based at CentroNía in Columbia Heights), the Washington literary community and emerging writers of all ages from area schools, universities, or other venues.

All events are free and open to the public. To be held on Sunday afternoons or Wednesday evenings, the schedule for these Readings/Open Mics is:

• Sunday, February 24, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
  WWPH Reading and Open Mic, Mt. Pleasant Public Library, 3160 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20010.
• Sunday, March 8, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
  WWPH Reading & Open Mic, Southeast Public Library, Street, 403 7th St, SE, Washington, DC 20003, Sponsored by Friends of SEPL.
• Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
  WWPH Reading & Open Mic, Petworth Neighborhood Library, 4200 Kansas Avenue, NW, at Georgia Avenue, NW & Upshur Street, NW, Washington, DC 20011.
• Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
  Woodridge Neighborhood Library, 1801 Hamlin Street, NE, at 18th Street, NE and Rhode Island Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20018.

Additionally, the award from the DCCAH will also support an upgrade of the WWPH website, www.wwph.org. For more information contact wwphpress@gmail.com or 202-841-7182.