Elisavietta Ritchie memorializes her close friend, fellow writer, Washingtonian, and Potomac Review contributor, Ann Knox. When a close writer friend dies, this is a death in our family. We tacitly morn a sibling or cousin, a teacher, a “double.” Judith…
Poet Tory Adkisson blogs about how to write dangerously. Even as a sophomore college student with one workshop under my belt, I was ambitious and felt a certain desperation to “prove” myself as a poet. Never mind I had only…
Guest blogger Davin Malasarn writes about how relationships change when we mature as writers. Three days before the first meeting of the WordKnot Writer’s Group—a group I put together in the summer of 2001—I got a call from one of…
Best of 50 contributor, Jacob M. Appel, blogs about the disservice that the current education system does to aspiring writers and what students and teachers can do to change that. Mark Twain once said: “I never let my schooling interfere…
Author Stacy Barton blogs about her favorite aspects of having her work rejected. I’m a writer. I write. I submit. I get rejected. Sometimes I get published. The writer’s working life is all about rejection. But we know that, right? …
Tracy Alig Dowling, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference short story winner, blogs about the revision process. Her award-winning short story, "To Live Without Air," will appear in the Potomac Review Issue #52. To Live Without Air is a short…
by Andrea Pawley I was made to read “The Red Badge of Courage” as an eighth grader. Nothing about that book, not even an understanding of which war it relates to, stuck with me. Several years on, I developed an…
A Review of Bathsheba Monk’s Nude Walker by Eric D. Goodman Nude Walker by Bathsheba Monk is, in many ways, a novel about change. Change is a theme worth exploring in a multitude of ways, and the author does so…