Volunteer Nathan attends a night of poetry and prose at The Windup Space in Baltimore. The Windup Space in Baltimore’s Station North District is one of that city’s many funky and entertaining venues for art and culture. Publishing Genius had…
The Potomac Review blog is looking for an unpaid volunteer to work on the blog beginning in February. Volunteers for the Potomac Review blog can expect to build their online presence and enhance their understanding of literary journal processes while…
Author Edythe Wise describes the challenges and rewards of writing spec scripts. After years of writing novels and short stories, I decided to try screenwriting and was pleased to learn that an unsolicited movie script, known as a “spec script,”…
Kathleen Ambrogi at Belletrista interviews Potomac Review Editor-in-Chief Julie Wakeman-Linn about her novel Chasing the Leopard Finding the Lion and the experiences upon which the work is based. Belletrista is a not-for-profit, bimonthly web magazine which seeks both to encourage…
Volunteer Karolina Samples Hemingway’s Cocktails with Author Philip Greene. On Wednesday, December 12th, I had the double pleasure of getting a book signed and getting a drink made for me by an author. The bartending, book-writing genius in question is…
Volunteer Nathan shares the pros and cons of withdraw technology for writers. Back when snail mail was the only medium for submitting work to publishers aside from knocking on their office door, writers had to be finished with their work…
Author Marsheila Rockwell blogs about writing tie-in fiction. You’ve seen them in the bookstores and supermarkets. Movie novelizations, or books based on your favorite TV show (or, maybe, if you’re of a geekier bent, based on your favorite game). You…
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…
Volunteer Karolina examines her writer crush on David Sedaris. Okay, it’s official. I think I have developed a full blown writer-crush. After seeing David Sedaris read at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland, I was completely star struck. And after he signed…