Potomac Review announces a flash fiction themed contest: “Brackish.” Fresh water and salt water like Chesapeake Bay Oil and vinegar Chocolate ice cream and fried onions Bugs Bunny meets Freddy Krueger The concept behind our theme, Brackish, is to take…
Iridum Sound, publisher of odd fiction magazines, blogs about telling stories using both words and illustrations. Right from the start, The Again wanted to do something that added as much value as possible to short stories and boosted our readership.…
Guest blogger and Potomac Review Issue 52 contributor, Melanie Bishop, offers writing advice in three parts, first about rituals. Part I: Rituals (today’s post) Part II: Methodology and Camaraderie Part III: Writing Away from Home: Retreats and Residencies A former…
Volunteer Nathan attends an evening with Karen Russell at Politics & Prose. Karen Russell is in the zone. On February 12th, her most recent collection of short stories Vampires in the Lemon Grove hit the shelves, and the new stories…
Volunteer Nathan attends an evening with Karen Russell at Politics & Prose. Karen Russell is in the zone. On February 12th, her most recent collection of short stories Vampires in the Lemon Grove hit the shelves, and the new stories…
Guest Blogger and Issue 52 Contributor, David Salner, blogs about the long road to learning to write poetry. No one installs a ram-intensive program on their computer without good reason. Likewise, the craft of poetry. I began installation of that…
Volunteer Karolina blogs about the Writer’s Center. The Potomac Review has a long-standing friendship with The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, having had publication launch parties and conference events there, as well as having published some of their workshop leaders. …
Potomac Review announces a flash fiction themed contest: “Brackish.” Fresh water and salt water like Chesapeake Bay Oil and vinegar Chocolate ice cream and fried onions Bugs Bunny meets Freddy Krueger The concept behind our theme, Brackish, is to take…
Issue 52 is beautiful, and we are so proud of the content. You have to get a copy to fly with “Sunburnt Cosmonaut.” John Nieve's poem, “Night Grammar,” is a perfect way to enchant your Valentine. A new poem by…
Guest blogger Davin Malasarn writes about how relationships change when we mature as writers. Three days before the first meeting of the WordKnot Writer’s Group—a group I put together in the summer of 2001—I got a call from one of…