Ashland University MFA Program

Today's Events: 7 p.m. - MFA Faculty and Administrator Reading: Sonya Huber, Kathryn Winograd, and Sarah M. Wells About the Presenters: Sonya Huber Sonya Huber Sonya Huber is the author of two books of creative nonfiction, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), finalist for the 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Nonfiction, and Opa Nobody (University of Nebraska Press, 2008), shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize. She has also written a textbook, The Backwards Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration (Equinox Publishing, forthcoming). Her work has been published in literary journals and magazines including Fourth Genre, Passages North, Hotel Amerika, Crab Orchard Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Washington Post Magazine, in other journals and in many anthologies. She teaches in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. Kathryn Winograd ...

Today's Events: All posted events are located in the Schar College of Education Ronk Lecture Hall, Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and are free and open to the public. 1-2:30 p.m. Craft Seminar with Tom French 7 p.m. Faculty Reading – Deborah Fleming and Joe Mackall About the Presenters: Thomas French Thomas French, visiting writer in creative nonfiction, worked as a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times for 27 years, writing serialized book-length narratives that appeared in the newspaper one chapter at a time. One of his projects, Angels & Demons, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. French now teaches at Indiana University and in Goucher College's MFA program for creative nonfiction. He also teaches at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and at writing conferences around the world, from Paris to Singapore to Johannesburg. He is the author of three nonfiction books, including Unanswered Cries, an account of a Florida murder case, and Sou...

Today's Events: All posted events are located in the Schar College of Education Ronk Lecture Hall, Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and are free and open to the public. 1-2:30 p.m. Poetry Faculty Craft Seminar: “Poetry and Memorability” with Mark Irwin and Peter Campion 7 p.m. Visiting Writer Reading: Tom French About the Presenters: Peter Campion Peter Campion Peter Campion, poetry, is the author of The Lions: Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2009), winner of the 2010 Larry Levis Reading Prize, Other People, (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and Mitchell Johnson (Terrence Rogers Fine Art, 2004). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry in 2011. He was also the 2009 recipient of the Rome Fellowship in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and has held a George Starbuck Lectureship at Boston University, as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lecturership at Stanford University. His poetry and prose have appeared recently in ...

Today's Events: All posted events are located in the Schar College of Education Ronk Lecture Hall, Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and are free and open to the public.   7 p.m. MFA Faculty Reading: Bob Cowser, Ruth L. Schwartz, and Jill Christman   About Today's Presenters: Jill Christman  Jill Christman  Jill Christman ’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure , won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. Recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been honored by Pushcart nominations and her writing has been published in Barrelhouse, Brevity, Descant, Literary Mama, Mississippi Review, Wondertime, and many other journals, magazines, and anthologies . Her work has appeared on Indiana Public Radio and in anthologies, including Writer’s Digest’s Rules of Thumb, Unbuttoned: Women tell the truth about the pains, pleasures and politics of breastfeeding, and Literature: the Human E...

Today's Events: All posted events are located in the Schar College of Education Ronk Lecture Hall, Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and are free and open to the public. 1-2:30 p.m. Craft Seminar “Dancing in a Box” with Rhina Espaillat 7 p.m. MFA Faculty Reading: Stephen Haven, Peter Trachtenberg, and Peter Campion About Today's Presenters: Peter Campion Peter Campion Peter Campion, poetry, is the author of The Lions: Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2009), winner of the 2010 Larry Levis Reading Prize, Other People, (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and Mitchell Johnson (Terrence Rogers Fine Art, 2004). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry in 2011. He was also the 2009 recipient of the Rome Fellowship in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and has held a George Starbuck Lectureship at Boston University, as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lecturership at Stanford University. His poetry and prose have appeared re...

Today's Events: All posted events are located in the Schar College of Education Ronk Lecture Hall, Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and are free and open to the public. 1-2:30 p.m. Poetry Faculty Craft Seminar: "'What Else Is True?' Encompassing Complexity" with Ruth L. Schwartz 7-8 p.m. Visiting Writer Reading: Rhina Espaillat About Today's Presenters: Rhina P. Espaillat Rhina P. Espaillat Rhina P. Espaillat, visiting writer in poetry, was born in the Dominican Republic in 1932, has lived in the United States since 1939, and was educated in the public school system of New York City. She graduated from Hunter College and did graduate work at Queens College, also a branch of the City University of New York. Espaillat taught high school English in New York City for several years, and writes poetry and prose both in English and in her native Spanish. Her poems, essays, narratives and translations have appeared in numerous magazines, on many websi...

Today's Events: All posted events are located in the Schar College of Education Ronk Lecture Hall, Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio and are free and open to the public. 2-3:30 p.m. Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Faculty Craft Seminar “Writing About Art/Finding Art Within, or: How Giotto Painted My Poem” with Jill Christman and Angie Estes 7 p.m. MFA Faculty Reading Schar 138 Robert Root, Steven Harvey, and Carmen Giménez Smith About Today's Presenters:  Jill Christman Jill Christman Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. Recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been honored by Pushcart nominations and her writing has been published in Barrelhouse, Brevity, Descant, Literary Mama, Mississippi Review, Wondertime, and many other journals, magazines, and anthologies. Her work has appeared on Indiana Public Radio a...

Looking for something to do next week during the afternoon or evening?  Come hear excellent writers present craft seminars and readings at Ashland University's MFA summer writer series!  All craft seminars and readings are free and open to the public.  Unless noted, events will be held in the Schar College of Education Ronk Lecture Hall at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio.  Here's the schedule for week one: Sunday, July 24 2-3:30 p.m. Craft Seminar: “Writing About Art/Finding Art Within, or: How Giotto Painted My Poem” with Jill Christman and Angie Estes 7 p.m. Faculty Reading: Robert Root, Steven Harvey, and Carmen Giménez Smith Monday, July 25 1-2:30 p.m. Craft Seminar: “’What Else Is True?’ Encompassing Complexity” with Ruth L. Schwartz 7-8 p.m. Visiting Writer Reading: Rhina Espaillat Tuesday, July 26 1-2:30 p.m. Craft Seminar: “Dancing in a Box” with Rhina Espaillat 7 p.m. Faculty Reading: Stephen Haven, Peter Trachtenberg, and Peter Cam...