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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.
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We enjoy non-fiction 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.
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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.
Poetry
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Include up to five poems for each submission.
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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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Most events are installed on their deadline date, unless there is a long submission window or unless it's a rolling submission.
P=Poetry, N=Nonfiction, F=Fiction
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PFN – Potomac Review Seeking Submissions on: The Unseen
April 1, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Writers may interpret these themes in a myriad of ways.
Like othering, not seeing is also a choice. We are not the only ones who observe and perhaps even engage in forms of mimesis. Just as self implies other, the seen implicates the unseen. Much can be seen and understood, but there is an ever-vanishing horizon, and the other, and the unseen, call into this future.
Seeing and failure to see are literary matters, and while our themed issues will be capacious enough to allow for each writer’s vision—transgressive, disruptive, queer, representative of the animal turn in the Anthropocene—they will be defining enough to proscribe that vision into the form of a task, an aesthetic task, where literature is itself seen as a form of reconciliation that does not recognize otherness, difference, disfiguration, or boundaries except as an also-I where the unseen is that aspect of artistic creation that is ahead of its time, that reveals itself as what has not yet been seen.
We try to respond within four to six months.
We do not accept multiple submissions. We cannot accept submissions from individuals currently associated with Montgomery College.
Fiction & Nonfiction
While we don’t have specific word limits for fiction submissions, we are, like everyone else, constrained by final page counts. The longer the work, the more difficult it is to find room for it; on the other hand, we’ve never turned down something we loved.
We only ask that you withdraw your submission if it has been accepted elsewhere. And please, only send us one submission at a time. Thank you.
Please note that we do not publish academic essays; we’re interested solely in creative nonfiction.