Next year is the Ashland MFA Program ’s 5th Anniversary. We will celebrate our anniversary during the 2011 Summer Residency , and again mid-year at the 2012 AWP Conference in Chicago. That we have seasoned well in the past five years is clear in the quality and growth of our faculty and student body, with 60+ students expected for the 2011 Summer Residency, four new faculty mentors joining us for their first summer session, and an additional faculty mentor returning after a leave of some years. We are also in the midst of our strongest spring admission period ever, with 20 positions for new students quickly filling. While we still have some positions open and will continue to review new applications, this is the strongest early admission period we have yet experienced. We are no longer a small low-residency MFA Program. We are about the same size as 6 other low-residency MFA Programs, larger than 16 programs, and substantially smaller than the 9 largest programs that enroll more than ...
A two-year, low-residency program in creative writing