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**LEDA’S DAUGHTERS by K. Avvirin Berlin, winner of the 2023 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize. More details here.**

**TRANSPLANT: A MEMOIR by Bernardine Watson, 2023 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Nonfiction Prize-winner.**
**Named one of the ‘5 over 50 Debuts’ by *Poets & Writers Magazine*!**
**Named one of the NPR Books We Love in 2023!**
“Dine says she wrote the book in part to raise awareness about kidney disease and the needs of the less fortunate among us. That and **the love story make**
**it well worth the read.”**—*Washington Post,* October 2023
**More details here.**

**BAD QUESTIONS by Len Kruger, Winner of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s 2023 Fiction Award.**
**“A remarkable job…**Perhaps there are no good answers to bad questions — only a continuous ‘coming of age’ one granting small mercies to those we lose and to the teenager each of us leaves behind.—*Washington Independent Review of Books*, October 2023
“**Novels that are funny and truly** **sad** are rare, but Washington metro area writer Len Kruger’s *Bad Questions* is one…” –*Washington City Paper*, October 2023
**More details here.**

“A D.C. favorite…the winning books have gained a national readership…” Washington City Paper, September 2023

“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, Pulitizer Prize Winner

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Washington Writers’ Publishing House is a non-profit, cooperative literary organization that has published over 50 volumes of poetry since 1975 and so far nearly a dozen volumes of fiction. The press sponsors three annual competitions for writers living in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, and the winners of each category (one each in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction) comprise our annual slate. In 2021, WWPH launched an online literary journal, WWPH WRITES to expand our mission to further the creative work of writers in our region.