Join us at our big 50th anniversary celebration on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th from 3-6 pm as we take over the Writer’s Center in Bethesda! Celebratory reading in the theater featuring two poetry icons GRACE CAVALIERI and E. ETHELBERT MILLER and more! Plus, literary festivities and libations on the main floor. This is a ticketed event — $50.00 for 50 years (or $40.00 if you are a Writer’s Center member). Tickets are going fast. Tickets include a special gift from your WWPH. Tickets are available here at the Writer’s Center.

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

Read more about her in her WWPH Interview here.

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.” NOW AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE BOOKS ARE SOLD.

Support your WWPH and buy it direct here. 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.