WWPH NEW RELEASES
A new edition of the award-winning poetry collection YOU CANNOT SAVE HERE by queer & trans writer & educator Tonee Mae Moll. “Moll’s poems rocket the reader towards their ’favorite apocalypse,’ and with a voice both energetic and compelling, reminds us how to hold on to what we love, even as the world is falling apart around us. You Cannot Save Here is an intimate and ambitious collection about being queer during the end of days, and how those days are not drained of playfulness, desire, and awe—all that might one day rescue us back to ourselves.” —Steven Leyva, member of the WWPH poetry judging committee. Now available everywhere books are sold, including directly here and at affiliate page at bookshop.org
CAPITAL QUEER: A PRIDE CELEBRATION FROM WASHINGTON WRITERS’ PUBLISHING HOUSE is our first pocket-size nthology/chapbook spotlighting bold queer voices from DC, Maryland, and Virginia—celebrating love, resilience, and identity in a powerful literary tribute to pride and community.” ON SALE MAY 27th. Read more.
“Varun Gauri may be the most psychologically insightful of recent Indian-American writers….brilliant, hilarious…” Akhil Sharma. A 2024 NPR BOOKS WE LOVE SELECTION! A FOREWORD INDIES AWARD FINALIST! Read more.
Megan Doney has written one of the most important memoirs published since Columbine. Lyrical. Insightful. Read more.
“Chanlee Luu’s The Machine Autocorrects Code to I is an ambitious new entry into a larger field of feminist Asian American speculative poetics…” Strange Horizons, February 2025. Winner of our 2024 Jean Feldman Poetry Award… Read more.
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WWPH RECENT RELEASES
Bernardine ‘Dine’ Watson’s memoir was named one of the ‘Top 5 over 50’ books by Poets & Writers magazine and a ‘Book We Love’ by NPR. WWPH’s premier nonfiction book. Read more.
K. Avvirin Berlin’s stunning poetry collection intersects Black history with Greek mythology and is the 2023 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize winner. Read more.
Len Kruger’s moving coming-of-age story. 1970s suburbia lives here. Read more.
The new edition of Grace Cavalieri’s classic WWPH collection, Why I Cannot Take A Lover, originally published in 1975, one of the first books from WWPH. Read more.
AGUAS by Miguel Avero with translation by Jona Colson. The premier selection in the biennial WWPH translation series. Read more.
“A D.C. favorite…the winning books have gained a national readership…” Washington City Paper
“Washington Writers’ Publishing House involves some of the best writers in the area in its activities and has built an audience of national significance. It is among the most successful recent literary experiments in the country.” Henry Taylor, Pulitzer Prize Winner