Volunteer Tim Explores the Southern Maryland Writing Scene. As a fairly new resident of Southern Maryland (Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary’s counties), I have found myself playing detective in search of local writers’ groups and events. My new habitat, while…
Volunteer Andrea laughs along with Dave Barry at Politics and Prose. “You may not believe this, but I’ve always been kind of a wise ass,” Dave Barry said to a packed house at Politics and Prose where Barry spoke, took…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 Tara Campbell attends a presentation by Salman Rushdie at George Washington University. Salman Rushdie is known for his sweeping, multigenerational family sagas featuring willful matriarchs and larger-than-life patriarchs. In his novels, history and magical realism intertwine, and the legends and…
Volunteer Andrea attends the last night of Jeff Shaara’s Blaze of Glory book tour. I have a soft spot for the U.S. Civil War, and I am fascinated by the process of bringing historical fiction to life. Months ago, I…