Editor and writer Philip Clark as well as Professors Zachary Benavidez, Joanna Howard, and Shweta Sen will be reading selections from Persistent Voices: An Anthology of Poets Lost to AIDS. Afterward, the audience and participants will be invited to write reactions…
Volunteer Holly interviews author Theodore Carter. The moment I heard the title The Life Story of a Chilean Sea Blob and Other Matters of Importance I was eager to read the book of short stories written by the Washington, D.C.-based…
Intern Cris blogs about the length of short stories. As I was sampling pieces of writing from various short stories on the internet the other day, I was impressed. They were short, but it was amazing how much the authors…
Guest blogger Joanie DiMartino writes about her NaPoWriMo results six months later. Here’s a link to her blog from April 2012. So “The Bed Bug Diaries” manuscript continues, line by line, word by word, syllable by syllable, forming into its…
Guest blogger Jacques Rancourt writes about his NaPoWriMo results six months later. Here’s a link to his blog from April 2012. The best part of the poem-a-day challenge is by the end having a large stack of new work, a…
Guest blogger Marla Deschenes writes about her NaPoWriMo results six months later. Here’s a link to her blog from April 2012. My poems that were written for NaPoWriMo mock me from a folder on my computer’s desktop where they have…
Guest blogger Uche Ogbuji writes about some longer-term results of his NaPoWriMo experience. Here’s a link to his blog from April 2012. Though I only got up to about twenty new poems in April, that counts as extremely productive for…
Intern Ellie blogs about why online magazines make sense. With the Potomac Review moving to online-only submissions, one has to wonder what would happen if the magazine were to make the next step and become a completely online magazine. What…
Guest blogger Derek Furr writes about hope, dessert and ambiguous rejection letters. Let me begin with a familiar tale of rejection. I pulled into my driveway at the end of the day, entered the back door and greeted my family…
Intern Gediyon offers advice about opening sentences. In creative writing workshops, instructors discuss setting, plot, dialogue, conflict, description, characterization and all the other things that go into a great story. All these things are important—they wouldn’t be taught if they…