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AWP 2016 in Los Angeles
If you are planning to attend this year's AWP Conference in L.A. (March 30-April 2), please let us know. We'll be in Booth #302. Stop by and say hi!
We're planning a dinner on the Friday night of the conference, so be sure to let us know if you are interested in being part of it. This includes anyone interested in learning more about the program. It's a great opportunity to get together with some of our faculty, students, and alumni.
We are looking for a few volunteers to help out at the book fair table too. Please contact Cassy if you're interested in helping at the booth or attending the dinner (cbrown44@ashland.edu).
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Open House Set for March 19
New or prospective students are welcome to join us at the Ashland University main campus for an informational Open House on Saturday, March 19, from 11 am. to 1 p.m. Our AU MFA team will present detailed information about the MFA Program before opening the session to your questions. We'll also have lunch in the university's Convocation Center and have a brief tour of the campus (weather permitting).
The Open House will be held in Room 116 of the Dauch College of Business and Economics Building, which is located on College Avenue in Ashland, near the intersection of Claremont and College Avenue.
If you plan to attend the open house, please R.S.V.P. to Cassandra Brown at mfa@ashland.edu.
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Financial Aid Applications for 2016-17 Now Available
New forms for the summer and for the 2016-17 academic year are now available. Visit http://www.ashland.edu/graduate/financial-aid to review the financial aid application process.
A reminder to graduating students: If you plan to request funding for summer 2016, you must submit a FAFSA and summer loan application. Thesis preference forms should be coming to you in the next few weeks!
Cross Genre Applications Due March 15
Students ready for 632 or 633 in the fall who would like to apply for a cross genre study will need to fill out the cross genre form and submit a writing sample in their intended second area of study. Get all the details and download the form from our website. Questions? Contact the MFA Office, 419.289.5098 or mfa@ashland.edu.
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2016 River Teeth Nonfiction Conference
This year's River Teeth Nonfiction conference is scheduled for June 3-5, 2016, on the Ashland University campus and will feature Dinty W. Moore, Elena Pasarello, and several other terrific speakers, including several of our MFA faculty members. Speaker bios are posted at the River Teeth website, along with more information about registration and the conference events.
Don't forget, River Teeth offers student scholarships each year to a few MFA or undergraduate students. The scholarship application deadline is March 15. All current Ashland students and alumni are eligible for a deep discount ($275 registration) if they register by April 1.
Take advantage of this great opportunity for learning and networking. Optional one-on-one manuscript consultations with most of our panelists will be available for essays and book-length manuscripts!
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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.
Jill Christman
Nonfiction Faculty
Jill has a new essay, "On Kindness," coming out in Brain, Child this spring, and "Going Back to Plum Island" is now available in the Fall issue of River Teeth. Jill will be presenting with Steve Harvey at the June River Teeth conference: "The Art of Research." She'll be busy at the AWP Conference in L.A. with her Board of Trustees member duties, but stop by the AWP Booth and say hi!
Deb Fleming
Poetry Faculty
Professor of English Dr. Deborah Fleming was interviewed on Thursday, Jan. 21, by Prairie Miller on Arts Express, a production of WBAI, a National Public Radio station broadcast in New York City and San Francisco, about her novel Without Leave. Listen to it here. Her latest collection of poems, Into a New Country is now available from Cherry Grove Collections.
Mark Irwin
Poetry Faculty
Mark Irwin’s 9 th collection, A Passion According to Green, will appear from New Issues in spring of 2017, and his collection of essays, Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, & Originality in Contemporary American Poetry will also appear in late 2017. New poems can be read in Blackbird, Field, Plume, and The Southern Review. His poem “Orpheus,” from American Urn: Selected Poems ( 1987-2014), hit the UCLA stage as a musical number in Sarah Ruhl’s play Eurydice. Read and see more here. Mark's poetry was also featured recently on the Library of Congress' Poetry 180 site, and was the featured poet on Poetry Daily.
Robert Root
Nonfiction Faculty
Bob will be contributing (irregularly) to Wisconsin Life, a feature of Wisconsin Public Radio producing short audio and video stories. His first two audio essays, “Synchronicity” and “Kame,” will be broadcast in March and April of this year. His haibun “Labyrinth Garden” will be published in April at Contemporary Haibun Online.
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Current Students
Joy Gaines-Frielder
Joy Gaines-Friedler's poem "Forgiveness" can be found in the current issue of The MacGuffin. Joy is training intern Creative Writing students from Oakland University to run prisoner workshops through PCAP (Prison Creative Arts Project) at The Thumb Correctional Facility in Lapeer, Michigan.
Adam Gellings
Adam's poem "Blue City" has been accepted for publication with Quarter After Eight. The poem will appear in the journal's twenty-second issue, which will be published this spring. Print copies will be available at AWP.
Judith Harper
Judith's book/thesis, Driving to Music, has been accepted for publication by Black Cat Moon Press.
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Alumni News
Carolee Bennett
Class of 2015
Carolee Bennett has started a blog, This Is Not A Literary Journal, which includes poetry prompts and other literary advice. Twice a year the site will open for submissions of poems written following the site’s prompts.
Ron Book
Class of 2013
To celebrate National Poetry Month, Ron's non-profit, The Rust Belt Poets and Writers Group, is hosting a day-long poetry reading on Saturday, April 30. The event will take place in Warren, Ohio, inside The Trumbull Art Guild (T.A.G.) space across from the Courthouse. We would love for poets and writers, either graduates or students, to come and spend the day with us. For more information contact Ron at rlb227@yahoo.com.
Sarah Freligh
Class of 2013
Sad Math continues to add to its following! The collection recently won the Whirling Prize, a post-publication award from the University of Indianapolis.
Kristin Distel
Class of 2014
Kristin Distel’s poems appear in Lehigh Valley Vanguard’s recent print publications: Volume VII: Writing the Femme and Volume VIII: Resistance in the Everyday. She also presented a paper on Toni Morrison’s first three novels at the national MLA conference in Austin, Texas.
Detrick Hughes
Class of 2011
Detrick's new collection of poems, Goats Do Roman Villages, will be released in early April through Nebo Media. This is Detrick's fifth collection of verse. Read more.
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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 news anytime, but we generally try to put out the newsletter around the middle of each month.
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