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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…
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 Karolina interviews Bill Lantry and Kate Fitzpatrick about how their award-winning writing and publishing partnership works. Karolina: You and your wife work as a team: you write, she submits your work. How has this partnership affected your writing? Bill…
Intern Karolina shares her inspirations from the Conversations and Connections Writer’s Conference. As I moved into the crowded lobby at the Conversations and Connections Writer’s Conference, my eyes zoned in on the refreshments table: there was coffee! Armed with my…
Intern Marc interviews Tory Adkisson, the 2010 winner of the Potomac Review’s poetry contest for his poem "Scarecrows." Entries to the Potomac Review’s 2012 poetry contest will be accepted through February 1, 2012. Intern Marc: What was the inspiration behind…
Intern Emily blogs the power of the visual over writing and her first-ever author event. As I leave my Creative Writing class having just written two scenes based on photos, I can’t help but think I was meant to write…
Intern Bob interviews Jacob Appel, author of “Animal Control” in the Best of Potomac Review 1) Since "Animal Control" was published in Potomac Review Issue 42, where else have you been published? I've now published slightly more than 200 stories,…
Intern Marc interviews Stacy Barton, author of “That Exit” in the Best of Potomac Review, Issue 50. Marc: Growing up in Oklahoma City and now residing in Maitland, Florida, how much of an impact, if any, do your background, experiences,…