Ashland University MFA Program

Join us for the English Department's Spring Reading series, featuring Bill Roorbach and Diana Hume George.  The Foreign Language Department is also hosting a bilingual poetry reading and bookmaking workshop with Ivan Vergara and Juan Armando Rojas Joo. Bill Roorbach, author of Life Among Giants Monday, March 25, 4:30 p.m. Schar College of Education, Room 138 (Ronk Lecture Hall) BILL ROORBACH is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Flannery O'Connor Prize and O. Henry Prize winner Big Bend (University of Georgia Press, 2001), Into Woods (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003), and Temple Stream (Random House, 2005). Life Among Giants, a novel, is due from Algonquin in 2012. The 10th anniversary edition of his craft book, Writing Life Stories (Story Press, 2008), is used in writing programs around the world. Recently, Bill was a judge on Food Network All Star Challenge, evaluating incredible Life Stories cakes made under the gun, so to speak. ...

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 Muse in the Museum Poetry Contest – Call for Entries Submissions due: Friday, March 22 by 5:00 pm The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Main Street Readings, and the Oberlin College Creative Writing Program seek submissions of ekphrastic poetry for our upcoming April First Thursday evening hours. April is National Poetry Month, and these hours on Thursday, April 4, will feature a reading of poetry inspired by works on view in the AMAM galleries. Submissions can be emailed to AMAM Curator of Education Jason Trimmer at: jtrimmer@oberlin.edu , or dropped off at the front desk of the AMAM. Guidelines: Ekphrastic poetry is poetry describing, inspired by, or written in response to works of visual art, such as painting, sculpture, or photography. Subm...