Orman Day’s prose and poetry have been published by such journals as Creative Nonfiction, ZYZZYVA, Third Coast, SLAB, William and Mary Review, Los Angeles Review, and Portland Review. His essay “Memories of a Time and Place” appeared in Potomac Review #60 in spring 2017. Former Potomac Review intern, Yemaya Alleyne, chats with Day…
Nora Bonner is a fiction writer and writing instructor from Detroit, Michigan. Currently, she lives in Atlanta and is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Creative Writing at Georgia State. You can find her story, “As Though She Could Actually…
Chad Schuster lives near Seattle with his wife and two children. He earned a journalism degree from the University of Washington and wrote for several newspapers before leaving the news business in 2008. He works for a communications firm in…
Kris Faatz (rhymes with skates) is a fiction writer and musician. Her first novel, To Love A Stranger, was a finalist for the 2016 Schaffner Press Music in Literature Award and was released May 2017 by Blue Moon Publishers (Toronto,…
Marian Crotty’s first book, What Counts as Love, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Her short stories have appeared in literary journals such as the Southern Review, the Kenyon Review, and the Alaska Quarterly Review. Her personal essays have…
Come say hello to us at AWP 2017 right here in our backyard, at the Convention Center in Washington D.C., from February 9th to the 11th. We will have on hand plenty of copies of our newest issue, #60, which…
We are delighted to nominate these fine works and writers for the next Pushcart Prize anthology. Fiction: Kyle Hays’s "Sit Still," Stephanie Allen’s "Deer Hunt," and Shane Jones’s "Pluses." Poetry: Michael Estes's, “Joseph Cornell on the Prairie,” Michael Miller’s “Crossing,…
Ten years of fabulous interns! We are reaching out to all former Potomac Review interns and would like to hear how you are doing—fabulously, we hope. We'd love to hear from you and have you do a quick short survey…
Congratulations to past contributor Polly Buckingham, who has won the 2016 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction! Her story "My Old Man" appeared in PR #53 and is a part of her new collection, The Expense of a View,…
Our Associate Editor David Lott has a new flash fiction piece up at 100 word story, called "Night Jobbed." Take a look!