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…
Volunteer Andrea interviews the editorial staff of One Story, a literary journal. Volunteer Andrea: The pieces in One Story are diverse (e.g. anorexia, overachieving children, corporate discontent, homosexuality, the silence in relationships), and many stories have won awards. How do…
Volunteer Andrea interviews Delia Sherman, author of numerous books including, most recently, The Freedom Maze. Andrea: Your main character, Sophie Martineau, is a young girl whose life is in flux. Did you start the writing process with the idea of…
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…
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? …
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…
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 Zachary Benavidez I can’t believe it’s already over. The 16th Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference has come and gone, and what a whirlwind kind of day it was! The students arrived bright and early, ready to staff registration,…