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CAPITAL QUEER: A PRIDE CELEBRATION FROM WASHINGTON WRITERS' PUBLISHING HOUSE showcases bold, queer voices from DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Featuring a mix of well-known, emerging, and new writers, this collection honors the LGBTQ+ experience through poetry, fiction, and essay. With themes of love, resilience, identity, and liberation, these powerful works speak to the heart of what it means to live authentically and creatively. CAPITAL QUEER is both a celebration of queer literature and a testament to the power of storytelling to connect and transform across generations and communities.

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Jona Colson is Queer poet, educator, and translator. His poetry collection, Said Through Glass, won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from the Washington Writers' Publishing House. He is also the translator of Aguas/Waters by Miguel Avero and the co-editor of the WWPH anthology, America's Future: Poetry & Prose In Response to Tomorrow. His poems, translations, and interviews have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, LitHub, and elsewhere. He is co-president of Washington Writers' Publishing House and edits the bi-weekly journal, WWPH Writes. He is a professor of ESL at Montgomery College and lives in Washington, D.C. www.jonacolson.com Caroline Bock writes micros to novels and is a longtime ally of the queer community. Her latest novel, The Other Beautiful People, a workplace love story about a movie-loving marketing executive, will be published in 2026 by Regal House Publishing. She is also the author of the short story collection, Carry Her Home, winner of the Fiction Award from the Washington Writers' Publishing House as well as the novels LIE and Before My Eyes from St. Martin's Press. She is the co-president and prose editor at the Washington Writers' Publishing House, and the co-editor of the WWPH anthology, America's Future: Poetry & Prose In Response to Tomorrow.

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