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 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. 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).