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Happy Holidays!
Our campus offices will be closed for the holidays after December 18 and will reopen on January 4.
Classes begin January 11.
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A Few Special Offers...
 Readers Needed for Awards. The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) is looking for first readers for the Firecracker Awards. (CLMP intends this award series to be "the National Book Award for indie publishers.") MFA students are encouraged to participate. More details have been posted on the December blog or you can email Paul Legault at CLMP, plegault@clmp.org, with your name and genre interest. Readers are needed for nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
 Poets & Writers MFA Discount. Poets & Writers is offering deeply discounted subscriptions to MFA students and faculty. If you are interested in getting this group price of $9.95/year, go to this link for more information or to place your order.
 AWP Membership. All current students and faculty are eligible for AWP Membership which includes a subscription to the Chronicle, discounts on the AWP Conference, and access to the members-only features on their website and great opportunities like the conference scholarship. New students should receive an email invitation to join AWP once the semester begins. If you do not receive this or have any questions, please contact the office. For more information about AWP visit them online at awpwriter.org.
See more Contest and Journal Submission Opportunities on our Blogspot.
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River Teeth Nonfiction Conference
This year's River Teeth Nonfiction conference is scheduled for June 3-5, 2016, and will feature Dinty W. Moore, Elana Pasarello, and several other terrific speakers, including a few of our MFA faculty.
Each year, we offer three student scholarships, a discount for all students, and an even deeper discount for Ashland MFA students and alumni. We also offer optional consultations with our panelists, available for essays and book-length manuscripts.
More details on speakers and deadlines coming soon at riverteethjournal.com. Registration begins January 31.
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Faculty News
Follow @ashlandmfa on Twitter and the Ashland University MFA Program Facebook page for regular updates about our faculty, staff, alumni, and students.
Dan Lehman
Nonfiction Faculty
Dan recently presented several sessions at the Whidbey Writer Workshop in Puget Sound. His essay "The Naive Youthful Narrator in the Literature of South African Apartheid," originally published in Sankofa: A Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2011, has been chosen for a volume featuring the best of the journal's previously published essays. Dan has also been asked by Cambridge University Press to write a chapter on "The New Journalism" for its 10-volume series, American Literature in Transition, to be published in 2017.
 Alex Lemon
Poetry Faculty
Congratulations to Alex Lemon on a new addition to his family. Alma Lemon was born on December 16. She weighed 7lbs 11oz and is doing well.
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Alumni News
Grace Curtis
Class of 2010
Grace has been named to the Board of Trustees of the Antioch Writer’s Workshop. She will serve a three year term on the board. The Antioch Writer’s Workshop has been in existence since 1986. Read more.
Joan Hanna
Class of 2011
Joan's chapbook of poetry, "The Miracle of Mercury," is available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. Her first chapbook, Threads, won the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award.
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Current Students
Matthew Brown
Matthew Brown's poem "The Drives" is now available in the current issue of Barking Sycamores. His poem "At the Lake," which appeared in Barking Sycamores in Fall 2014, has been selected for a special print anthology that the journal plans to issue.
Misty Burke
Misty is starting up a small publishing house! The Black Cat Moon Press will start taking submissions in January for a literary journal and a poetry book series entitled "The Nine Lives Collection." Read more.
Kerri Snell
Kerri Vinson Snell's poem "Here is How" has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors at Foothill: a Journal of Poetry.
Doug Rutledge,
Kristin Distel
Two alumni and a faculty member from our program are involved in Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century, now available from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The book includes a chapter written by graduate Doug Rutledge on the poetry of Angie Estes and two chapters written by Ashland MFA graduate Kristin Distel.
Krista Christensen
Krista has had a new essay accepted for publication. "By Degrees" will appear in Harpur Palate issue 15.2, coming out in February.
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News to Share??
Alumni and current students, we love sharing your good news! Send your latest publications, job changes, or other news for the monthly newsletter to mfa@ashland.edu. You can send it anytime, but we generally try to put out the newsletter around the middle of each month.
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