Intern’s Review
A review of Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Kathryn Mussenden, Potomac Review Intern spring 2024 What do we do when bad people make good art? Claire Dederer’s Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma struggles with this. It is a…
Intern’s Review
Book Review of George Choundas's Until All You See is Sky by Jessie Gouverneur, Potomac Review Intern, summer 2023 Are you wondering how your past can affect your present? The essay collection Until All You See is Sky is a…
Mindfulness and The Pen
PR Interns Hieu Duong and Juliana Borelli offer these ideas about writing and mindfulness, mixing meditative practice with the creative act, and about the value of working with a strong instructor such as PR Fiction Editor, John Wang. …
Translations: A Master Class With Alicia Partnoy
Poetry is an alluring way to write about the raw human emotions that exist in each of our lives. They are simply timeless because they can apply to all individuals, as there is likely to be at least one poem…
Larry Moffi of Settlement House Visits the Interns
On March 29th, Settlement House Press co-founder and publisher Larry Moffi visited the Potomac Review interns at Montgomery College and discussed his career in publishing, which ranges from being an author, editor, copy-editor, managing editor to director of publications (http://www.larrymoffi.com).…
Frostburg: The Literature Festival That I Loved
One of the perks of being a Potomac Review Intern is the opportunity to attend literary festivals and conferences and learn about craft from and network with more experienced writers. Dagem Beede shares his experience this past October at the Frostburg Indie…
Gisele Barbeau: The Rise of The Short Story
This week we round out the offerings of our interns with this thoughtful piece about short fiction's ascent as THE most popular form of literature these days. The other day I was browsing the Internet when I came upon a…
I Never Thought I Would be Writing Contemporary Fiction
Gabriel M. Antuna is one of PR's very talented and hardworking interns this semester. As is our tradition, our interns write a blog post for us during the semester. Enjoy Gabriel's musings below: My literary aspirations were vast and lofty. Penning…
Intern's Post: Anna Ball and Politics and Prose
Our summer intern, Anna Ball, has headed back to the University of Maryland, where she is currently a junior. At PR, she did everything from researching magazines and other publications, to assisting with #55's production, to helping organize our inventory…
Potomac Interns Collaboration: Responding to J. Wang and Juked
PR is fortunate to have Montgomery College student interns each semester to assist in and learn about literary magazine production. When they're not working on spreadsheets, compiling lists and creating publicity, they spend time in a weekly course designed to introduce…