We begin 2014 with the very good news that two of our editors, Katherine Smith and Marianne Szlyk, have been published. Poetry Editor Katherine Smith participated in Sixfold's "writer-voted journal," winning third place (not to mention 100 dollars) among her…
Potomac Review is pleased and proud to report on the continuing success of Issue 52 contributor, Melanie Bishop. Her young adult novel, My So-Called Ruined Life (Torrey House), is due out in early January--watch for a review of it…
Associate Editor Karolina Gajdeczka attends a Writer’s Center program in Leesburg with speaker Leslie Pietrzyk. Being new to the Leesburg area, I was really excited to find out about the events in Leesburg that The Writer’s Center puts on every…
This week we're happy to introduce a new associate poetry editor, Julie Platt, who is Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Writing Center, and Director of Composition at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Her poetry chapbook, In the…
Michael LeBlanc, Mike Maggio, Sydney March, and Robert L. Giron will be reading at the TP/SS Associate Editors’ reading on Tuesday, Nov. 12th, from 2 to 3:30 PM in the Commons Building, Room 211, at the corner of Takoma Avenue and New York…
PR's home, Montgomery College, and the annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival have been linked for years. Each festival brings workshops by noted local writers--this year, James Grady, Alan Cheuse, Merrill Leffler and E. Ethelbert Miller led…
PR contributor Tina Tocco has this to say about writing: I had a writing instructor who told our class something like this: “If you can write only on sunny days, or while listening to the rain fall, or when everything in…
PR's associate editors are a pretty amazing and talented group--a pride of editors? Perhaps. Or maybe we should just say that we are grateful to our associate editors for their generosity--the time that they give to reading submissions, and that we…
The project to record the history of D.C.'s poets and poetry, A Splendid Wake, now has a blog, A Splendid Wake Up, where news and updates of the committee's work will be posted. Poets Karren Alenier and Kim Roberts and…