Announcing: "Mr. Dow's Story" is our Flash Fiction contest winner by Jill Birdsall. A charming and spooky story, Jill told Potomac review editors, that she wrote the story in response to the Brackish prompt. Congratulations to Jill. "Mr Dow Story" will appear in Issue 53. Jill will blog about her writing of the story on an upcoming Potomac Review blog. Also congratulations to our runners-up: “Dead Astronauts” by Charles W. Hood, “Fish Head” by Jinny Koh, “My Grandfather was a Violin Shredder” by Robert Perchan, “LAPD Detective” by Tori Telfer, “The Life of Jimmy Jacobs” by Greg Sullivan. Thank you all for submitting to our contest! Announcing: Potomac Review will no longer accept paper submissions by mail. We only accept electronic submissions to be more environmentally responsible and you are encouraged to submit your submission electronically by our Online Submission Manager. Thank you! |
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Potomac Review opens windows into the complexity of literature; in each issue, our selections span the spectrum of voice and style. We sample realistic and experimental prose and poetry. Drawing 95 % of our content from unsolicited submissions, we publish writers at all stages of their careers. Every issue includes work by emerging and by established writers. The Potomac Review features award-winning writers and has been recognized in the Best American series. Our philosophy welcomes variety, and through it, we create an organic flow of ideas to contribute to the literary conversation.
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Potomac Review: A Journal of Arts & Humanities publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art work. Potomac Review was recently distinguished as having legit content when Best American Essays 2009 and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 recognized our journal as having a Notable Essay and Notable Story, respectively. We also help run the F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference and host the Conversations and Connections Conference, in conjunction with Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, and John Hopkins University.
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