John RC Potter

John RC Potter is an international educator from Canada, living in Istanbul. He has experienced a revolution (Indonesia), air strikes (Israel), earthquakes (Turkey), boredom (UAE), and blinding snow blizzards (Canada), with the last being the subject of his story “Snowbound in the House of God” (Memoirist, May 2023). His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have been published in a range of magazines and journals, most recently in Blank Spaces (“In Search of Alice Munro”, June 2023), Literary Yard (“She Got What She Deserved,” June 2023), Freedom Fiction (“The Mystery of the Dead-as-a-Doornail Author,” July 2023), and The Serulian (“The Memory Box,” September 2023). The author has over a dozen upcoming publications in the coming months, including an essay in The Montreal Review.

All Roads Lead To Istanbul

Update about Fiction Submissions (PLEASE READ)

Hello! Please be advised that accepted FICTION submissions are now being scheduled into 2026. That is quite a ways away, we know, but it also means that we’ve got enough great fiction scheduled for the rest of 2024 and ALL of 2025!

We just want to mention this for anyone still waiting for decisions or submitting.

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