• Send up to 3 poems (up to 6 pages) along with $20 reading fee payable to Montgomery College/Potomac Review. All entrants will receive a one-year (2 issues) subscription to the Potomac Review.

• Put author's name and address on the cover letter only. Include a cover letter (including contact info and names of poems), and a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) for contest results. Entries will not be returned.

• All poems must be typed and previously unpublished; no name or address should appear on the poems themselves.

• Online submissions are accepted by submitting under the genre "contest," although your entry fee will still have to be received through the mail.

• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please note this in your cover letter and notify us immediately of acceptance elsewhere.

• Contest entries will be accepted from October 1, 2009 - February 1, 2010.

• Winners announced February 15, 2010.

• The winning poem will appear in the upcoming issue of Potomac Review.

• The second place poem will be published on the Potomac Review website. Semifinalists will be listed on the website and considered for online and print publication.

• Manuscripts that do not follow contest guidelines will be disqualified.

• Please direct all contest questions to the Managing Editor: wgrofic@yahoo.com.

Submit to:
Potomac Review
Montgomery College
51 Mannakee Street, MT/212
Rockville, MD 20850