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. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SUBMISSION Literary nonfiction essay, memoir, commentary 1000-5000 words Literary nonfiction narrative poetry Black & white art and photography Submission Deadline December 31, 2012 Submit via email: editor@thetruthaboutthefact.com Published by Loyola Marymount University thetruthaboutthefact.com Origami Zoo Chapbook Contest We are pleased to announce that the first ever Origami Zoo Chapbook Contest is open for submissions from now until January 5, 2013 ! The final judge will be the cataclysmic Matt Bell. Origami Zoo Press has published chapbooks by Laura van den Berg, Chad Simpson, BJ Hollars and Brian Oliu. PRIZES: Winner recei...

Congratulations to Sarah Freligh, current Ashland University MFA student, whose chapbook of poems won the Editor's Choice award in the Accents 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest! A Brief Natural History of an American Girl by Sarah Freligh "In A Brief Natural History of an American Girl, Sarah Freligh pulls you into the car of a 1950's girlhood and you stay, compelled by the journey through sexual awakening and into womanhood. It's a difficult story. The narrator loses a lot—she gives kisses to the boss at Donut Delite, her virginity to a boy in a cornfield, her body to men she knows, or doesn't. She gives away a baby. She buries her mother. And hope, how 'easy to give her away.' And yet not quite. Through the accumulation of experience, through the ability to look clearly and name what she sees, Freligh insists on possibility. The poems draw our attention, then elicit a shiver of recognition. This is what one girlhood looks like; this is what human exp...

Announcing the pre-sale period for two of our alumni, whose books have been selected for publication by Finishing Line Press.  Please help them out by ordering during their pre-sale time, which helps determine the print run for each chapbook. Lemon Grass and Red Curry: On cooking, cooks, art and life by Kimberly Sinclair Ghaphery Kim Ghaphery‘s chapbook, Lemon Grass and Red Curry: On cooking, cooks, art and life , is a rich, complex journey into the heart and soul of family through the recipes it shares across generations. Food becomes the metaphoric gateway into the passions, the bitter hurts, and the small moments of tenderness that Ghaphery faces head-on with beauty and clarity.--Kathryn Winograd, author of Air into Breath Kimberly Sinclair Ghaphery’s Lemon Grass and Red Curry explores the work and celebration of food as it forges intergenerational bonds between women and the families and cultures they love. While her poems often focus on a personal domesticity—the r...