Ashland University MFA Program

Valerie Due, graduate of the Ashland University MFA Program in 2009, is the winner of the Wild Mountain Memoir Retreat Cheryl Strayed/VIDA Memoir Scholarship. Valerie was one of 95 scholarship applicants considered for the full scholarship to attend the Wild Mountain Memoir Retreat March 13-15. Congratulations, Valerie! Full press release is available here .

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.  Tupelo Press 2013 Snowbound Chapbook Award Now Open February 28, 2013  (postmark or online submission-date) Final Judge: Kathleen Jesme $1,000 Prize The annual Snowbound Chapbook Award is an open competition for a chapbook-length poetry manuscript. Open to all poets, with or without previous book publications. Prior winners include Brandon Som, Stacey Waite, and Cecilia Woloch. Read full guidelines here . Call for Submissions: Anthology of Poetry on Women and Work Editors Carolyne Wright and Eugenia Toledo invite women poets of all nationalities, backgrounds and job descriptions to submit up to 5 poems for an anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace . This anthology invites poems of women who have occupied spaces...

Faculty and members of the Ashland University MFA Program are participating in at least ten panels and readings at this year's AWP Conference.  Stop by our program booth in the bookfair - we will be at Booth #1013. Thursday, March 7 "Looking for Real-Life Humberts: The Unreliable Narrator in Creative Nonfiction" Elizabeth Kadetsky, Tom Larson, Mimi Schwartz, Michael Steinberg, Daniel Stolar 9:00-10:15 a.m., Room 110, Plaza Level "Camouflage and Capitalism: The Intellectual Appropriation of American Poetry, Sponsored by Alice James Books" Laura McCullough, Tony Hoagland, Kathleen Graber, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Peter Campion 3:00-4:15 p.m., Room 302/304, Level Three "Ashland Poetry Press Reading" Stephen Haven, Robert Grunst, John Hennessy, Gabriel Spera, Catherine Staples 3:00-4:15 p.m., Patricia Olson Bookfair Stage, Exhibit Hall A, Plaza Level Friday, March 8 "A Tribute To Gail Mazur" Gail Mazur, Robin Becker, Peter Campion,...