Potomac Review is a bi-annual American literary journal containing fiction, poetry nonfiction, and photography. Based in Rockville

Rockville, Maryland

Rockville is the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a major incorporated city in the central part of Montgomery County and forms part of the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The 2010 U.S...

, Maryland

Maryland

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, it features quality stories, poems, essays and criticism with an eye to the national and world scene but feet firmly planted in the Mid-Atlantic writing culture. The Potomac Review publishes well-known and emerging writers. Writers who have contributed to this journal include Amina Gautier, Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson is an American poet, attorney, editor, and freelance journalist.-Life:Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop...

, Jacob M. Appel

Jacob M. Appel

Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia....

, Lisa Ohlen Harris, David Wagoner

David Wagoner

David Russell Wagoner is an American poet who has written many poetry collections and ten novels. Two of his books have been nominated for National Book Awards....

, Ned Balbo

Ned Balbo

Ned Balbo is an award-winning poet and essayist. He currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, poet-essayist Jane Satterfield, and her daughter Catherine.-Life:...

 and Margaret MacInnis. The journal also highlights their Fall Fiction Contest Winter, Spring Poetry Contest Winner, and the F.Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest Winner.

Since 2007, The Potomac Review has held the Writer’s Conference, The Conversations and Connections, which is a spring writer’s conference held in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Review, and Barrelhouse Review.

Founded in 1994, the Potomac Review is now funded by the Montgomery College

Montgomery College

Montgomery College is a public, open access community college located in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. in the United States. The college has three campuses, the largest of which is in Rockville; the other campuses are in Takoma Park/Silver Spring and Germantown...

 Foundation and Paul Peck Humanities Institute.