Founded 1973 | ||
Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States Similar The Writer's Center, Poets & Writers, Graywolf Press | ||
Washington Writers' Publishing House is a cooperative, member-run, non-profit small press publishing poetry and fiction. The press was founded by Grace Cavalieri and John McNally in 1973 to publish authors who live in the Washington-Baltimore region. According to their guidelines, they publish only manuscripts submitted to their contests for which a significant fee is charged.
Authors include: Barri Armitage Ned Balbo Dierdra Baldwin, David Bristol, Elizabeth Bruce, Laura Brylawski-Miller, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Ramola D, Grace Cavalieri, Maxine Clair, Patrick L. Clary, Katharine Edgar Coby, Shirley Cochrane, Denis Collins, Ann Darr, Moira Egan, Paul Estaver, Harrison Fisher, Brandel France de Bravo, Nan Fry, Martin Galvin, Patricia Garfinkel, Piotr Gwiazda, Sid Gold, Beate Goldman, Paul R. Haenel, Greg Hannan, Catherin Harnett Shaw, Judith Harris, Gray Jacobik, Bernard Jankowski, Dan Johnson, Beth Joselow, Catherine Kimrey, Ann Knox, Phillip Kurata, Kwelismith, Mary Ann Larkin, Barbara Lefcowitz, Bruce MacKinnon, Elaine Magarrell, David McAleavey, John McNally, E. Ethelbert Miller, May Miller, Elisabeth Murawski, Sharon Negri, Eric Nelson, Jean Nordhaus, Catherine O'Neill, Patric Pepper, Faith Reyher Jackson, Elisavietta Ritchie, Kim Roberts, Gretchen Roberts, Ron Rodriguez, Carly Sachs, Robert Sargent, Jane Satterfield, Jane Schapiro, Anne Sheldon, Myra Sklarew, Katherine Smith, Dean Smith, David Taylor, Joseph C. Thackery, Hilary Tham, Naomi Thiers, Elaine Maria Updon, Margaret Weaver, Terence Winch, and Hastings Wyman.
In addition, the press has released two anthologies, The Poet Upstairs, edited by Octave Stevenson (1979), and Hungry As We Are, edited by Ann Darr (1995).
The press has received financial support through grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Nation magazine, and the Poetry Society of America.
Critical reviews
The poet Henry Taylor has stated that the Washington Writers' Publishing House had "built an audience of national significance. It is among the most successful recent literary experiments in the country."