Editor in Chief Julie Wakeman-Linn interviews Jen Michalski, editor of JMWW, about her new novel, THE TIDE KING. JWL: First of all, congratulations on the publication of THE TIDE KING. We both have day jobs and wonderful, if demanding, literary…
By: Tim Moraca Volunteer Tim expounds on inspiration Where does inspiration come from? Surely that moment of blinding clarity, of previously unseen diagonal correlations cannot be forced; for if you could whip inspiration together like a batch of cookies, it…
By: Jeff Fearnside Jeff Fearnside’s literary writing has won several national awards and appeared in more than three dozen journals and anthologies, including Potomac Review, The Pinch, Rosebud, Many Mountains Moving, New Madrid, Permafrost, and The Los Angeles Review. Fearnside…
By: Todd Killick Potomac Review intern, Todd Killick, takes on The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, and explores how his reading influences his writing. I recently read The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Most people are aware of the…
By: Tim Moraca We are proud to announce that previous Potomac Review intern Tim Moraca now serves as the first Vice President to the newly established St. Mary’s Chapter of the Maryland Writers’ Association. Those of us who like to…
Guest blogger and Potomac Review Issue 52 contributor, Melanie Bishop, offers writing advice in three parts, second about methodology and camaraderie. The reason I’ve paired these two—methodology and camaraderie—is because writers are always sharing their methods and tricks with each other. And…
By: Susanna Brougham Looking at nothing and beginning to see something: not a bad place to start. I was on Cape Cod, with a day to spare before attending—what else?—a writing workshop. So I took a dune buggy ride over…
Volunteer Tim tries to attend a literary event. Last Thursday I hopped down to St. Mary's College of Maryland to hear nature writer David Gessner read from his work. Gessner has eight published books, most recently The Tarball Chronicles about…
Volunteer Nathan does not enjoy sifting through lists of journals. My oh my, it seems there are just as many literary journals as there are books to read. With so many outlets in which to submit our work, how do…
Author Edythe Wise describes the challenges and rewards of writing spec scripts. After years of writing novels and short stories, I decided to try screenwriting and was pleased to learn that an unsolicited movie script, known as a “spec script,”…