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Potomac Review issue76 cover CALL FOR WRITERS

SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW THROUGH OCTOBER 1, 2025.

General Submission Guidelines: We accept submissions from December 1 – March 1 and again from July 1 – October 1. Please send us only one submission at a time per reading period. Send your work via Submittable at PotomacReview.Submittable.com.

We try to respond within four to six months.

We happily read simultaneous submissions, but ask that you let us know as soon as a work has found a new home. Please see our guidelines below for withdrawing your work if another publication has accepted it.

Please note that Potomac Review cannot consider:

Previously published work
Submissions from individuals currently affiliated with Montgomery College (staff, faculty, students)
AI-generated work

Contributors will be compensated with two complimentary copies, an opportunity to purchase additional copies at a discount, and a one-year subscription to Potomac Review.

Questions? Email: PotomacReviewEditor@MontgomeryCollege.edu

Fiction & Nonfiction

We’ll read stories and essays of any size, though typically we find it difficult to make room for works that run much longer than 7,500 words.
We enjoy nonfiction narratives and creative essays; we’re sorry to say we do not accept academic essays. If it’s something in between? Feel free to try us.

If your work has been accepted elsewhere, please withdraw it from Submittable. We will be happy for your success, and happier to avoid confusion down the road.

Submit Fiction Submit Nonfiction

Poetry

Include up to five poems for each submission.

If you are submitting simultaneously and one or more of your poems are accepted elsewhere, please make a note of it on your submission in Submittable.

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