PR editors, Julie Wakeman-Linn, Jarvis Slacks, Zachary Benavidez, and John Wang, read for a lively audience on November 25th. The occasion was to honor MC's Safe Zone for LGBTQ students, staff and faculty, and also to honor the hard work…
By: Karolina Gajdeczka When I first got involved with the Potomac Review, I was in my last year of college, and working as editor-in-chief of my university’s student-run literary magazine as well. Despite the extra work, I took on…
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…
Nonfiction Editor, Zachary Benavidez, blogs about why he keeps a journal. This summer I started doing something I haven't done since college: I started journaling again. In grad school, our writing professors encouraged us to keep notebooks in our pockets…
Editor Zachary Benavidez reflects on his time leading the Potomac Review. When Julie Wakeman-Linn first announced that she would be spending a year-and-a-half abroad in Tanzania, I was envious. Like many of us in the English department at MC-Rockville who…
by Zachary Benavidez I can’t believe it’s already over. The 16th Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference has come and gone, and what a whirlwind kind of day it was! The students arrived bright and early, ready to staff registration,…