Events

Sunday, November 1, 1 p.m. Washington Writers' Publishing House Prize Winners Washington Writers' Publishing House is a non-profit organization that has published over 50 volumes of poetry since 1973 and so far nearly a dozen volumes of fiction. The press sponsors an annual competition for writers living in the Washington-Baltimore area. P&P is proud to host a reading by the latest winners. 2009 Poetry Winner Jehanne Dubrow From The Fever-World ($15) Through the voice of Ida Lewin, an imaginary Yiddish poet who lives in the village of AlwaysWinter, Dubrow recreates the pre-War world of Eastern European Jewry. Steeped in Yiddish literature and oral history, this award-winning sequence was completed while Dubrow served as a Sosland Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington. 2009 Fiction Winner William Littlejohn Calvin ($15.95) Littlejohn’s award-winning novel is a story of the 1940s Deep South. Billy Smithson is ten years old when his mother, in flight from her ex-husband, leaves him with his grandfather in rural South Carolina. Then his grandfather, unable to keep him, leaves the boy with Calvin, an African-American servant. What happens between the two, and how they bridge gaps of age, class, and race, is a moving coming-of-age story.