John RC Potter is an author and an international educator.
John RC Potter is an international educator from Canada, who lives in Istanbul.
When in high school John had the opportunity to interview the Nobel Prize winning author, Alice Munro, who resided in his hometown. It inspired John to begin creative writing, and was the subject of his story, “In Search of Alice Munro” (Bosphorus Review of Books, 2022).
His poems and stories have been published (or are slated for publication) in: The Montreal Review, Blank Spaces, The Write Launch, Plentitude Magazine, Strangers and Karma Journal, Suspended Magazine, Wayward Literature, The Stray Branch, The Pike Review, The Expressionist Literary Magazine, Juste Literary Journal, The Seraphic Review, Memoirist, Fragmented Voices, Dark Winter Literary Magazine, Literary Yard, The Hooghly Review, The Serulian Journal, Yellow Mama, Bristol Noir, Freedom Fiction, The Stygian Lepus Magazine, Creatopia, Bosphorus Review of Books, Fireworks Story Magazine, Fiction on the Web, The Globe Review, Down in the Dirt, Riddlebird, The National Library of Poetry & Jabberwocky.
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), the last being the subject of his story, “Snowbound in the House of God” (Memoirist, May 2023). His poems and stories 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). It was recently announced that “She Got What She Deserved” has been recognised as one of the Top 100 Projects in the 7th Annual Launch Pad Prose Competition. In 2024 his picture book, “The First Adventures of Walli and Magoo: A Tall Tail, Long Read Picture Book” will be published by Pegasus Publishers (Cambridge UK). Other manuscripts are currently under consideration by publishers: “The Memory Box: Collected Stories” and “Walking in the Shadow of Someone’s Soul: Collected Poems”.
John RC Potter – Author Website (author-blog.org)
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