Ashland University MFA Program

Each month, the Ashland MFA Program receives calls for submissions and contest deadlines, which it publicizes in its monthly newsletter. Listed below are this month's calls for submissions, in order of deadlines, where posted. Harpur Palate Call for Contest Submissions Have you submitted to our Winter/Spring 12.2 issue? If not, consider submitting your best poetry and creative nonfiction to our two writing contests, the annual Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry and the brand-new Harpur Palate Prize for Creative Nonfiction. All contest submissions are simultaneously considered for publication. Winners in each contest will receive a $500 prize, publication in the winter issue of Harpur Palate, and two copies of the issue in which the winning piece appears. All writers who submit to our contests, which requires a small entry fee of $15, will receive a one-year subscription to Harpur Palate. For more specifics, please see our contest guidelines on our website. We accep...

Stephen Haven, the Director of the MFA Program, Deborah Fleming, a faculty member in the English Department, and Sarah M. Wells, the Administrative Director of the MFA Program, will be leading workshops for the first Ashland Poetry Workshop weekend December 1-2, 2012 at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio.  The weekend features guest presenter Lynn Powell, author of two collections of poetry, Old and New Testaments and The Zones of Paradise .  Lynn will also serve as one of the workshop instructors during the weekend. Workshop sessions are near capacity, so register as soon as possible to hold a spot by emailing swells@ashland.edu .  All readings and seminars are free and open to the public even if you are unable to register for the workshops. A participant open-mic will take place Saturday at 2 p.m. in Schar 138, and Lynn Powell will read in the same location at 7 p.m. that evening.  Lynn will teach a seminar on the poetry of Elton Glaser and Mary Oliver, two O...

Mary Biddinger will give a poetry reading at Ashland University as part of the English Department Reading Series Monday, November 12 at 4:30 p.m. in the Schar College of Education Ronk Lecture Hall.  Refreshments will be provided.    Those interested in the MFA Program are invited to stick around Ashland for an open house at 7 p.m. in the Dauch College of Business and Economics Building, Room 104.  Stephen Haven and Sarah Wells will give a brief presentation about the program and will be available to answer any questions afterward.   For more information about the reading series, contact Kari Repuyan, krepuyan@ashland.edu , 419.289.5110.  To register for the open house, please contact Sarah Wells, swells@ashland.edu , 419.289.5957.     Mary Biddinger is the author of four collections of poetry: Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), the chapbook Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), O Holy Insurgency (forthcomin...