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…
Volunteer Karolina offers advice about applying to MFA programs. What happens once you’ve decided to apply to an MFA program in creative writing? If you’re anything like me, the application process can be a little daunting. There are so many…
Guest blogger Shannon Lawrence writes about why she does NaNoWriMo. #nanowrimo As the leaves turn and begin to fall, writers everywhere are doing more than busting out the rakes. Autumn means it’s time for NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month,…
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…
Volunteer Holly honors a late literary great. The night was like a scene from Poe’s own pen: “The skies they were ashen and sober; / The leaves they were crisped and sere-- / The leaves they were withering and sere;…
Guest blogger Erin M. Hartshorn writes about her NaNoWriMo experiences and her hope for the month of November. I first did NaNoWriMo in 2003, about the time when I first decided I was actually going to pursue writing. My goal…
Volunteer Nathan ventures out to the National Book Festival and the Baltimore Book Festival. Book lovers in the D.C./Baltimore area have it made. On September 22-23, the National Book Festival was held on the National Mall in D.C. The Baltimore…