Skip to main content

2013 Summer Residency Schedule of Events

The Ashland University MFA Program announces its public readings and craft seminars.  Unless noted, all events will be held in the Schar College of Education Building, Room 138, on Ashland University's campus.  Click here for maps and directions.  

These events are made possible in part by the Ohio Arts Council and the Ohio Humanities Council.

More information about the writers presenting at the MFA Program's Summer Residency is available on the program website.

Please call (419)289-5110 or email swells@ashland.edu for additional information.

Sunday, July 28
"Perception/Vulnerability in Poetry and CNF, and a Closer Look at James Agee" with Mark Irwin and Leila Philip
2-3:30 p.m. Faculty-Led Craft Seminar

Brian Doyle
7 p.m. Visiting Writer Reading


Monday, July 29
"Starts and Beginnings" with Brian Doyle
1-2:30 p.m. Craft Seminar

Deborah Fleming, Leila Philip, and Kathryn Winograd
7-8 p.m. Faculty Reading


Tuesday, July 30
“‘Words alone are certain good’: Uses of Formalism in W. B. Yeats” with Deborah Fleming
1-2 p.m. Faculty-Led Craft Seminar

“Exercising Brevity: Nonfiction Lessons in Distillation” with Jill Christman
1-2 p.m. Faculty-Led Craft Seminar: Dauch College of Business, Ridenour Room

Bob Cowser, Jr., Angie Estes, and Steven Harvey
7 p.m. Faculty Reading


Wednesday, July 31
“Investigative Poetry” with Carmen Gimenez Smith
1-2 p.m. Faculty-Led Craft Seminar

“Proper Names Are Poetry in the Raw”: Characters, Naming, and Identity in Creative Nonfiction with Dan Lehman
1-2 p.m. Faculty-Led Craft Seminar: Dauch College of Business, Ridenour Room

Alicia Ostriker
7 p.m. Visiting Writer Reading


Thursday, August 1
"On Metaphor" with Alicia Ostriker
1-2:30 p.m. Craft Seminar

Jill Christman, Mark Irwin, and Ruth L. Schwartz
7 p.m. Faculty Reading


Friday, August 2
“Cities of the Interior: Travel, Writing, and the Self” with Bob Cowser, Jr. and Angie Estes
1-2-30 p.m. Faculty-Led Craft Seminar

Keith Flynn, Ladette Randolph, Enid Shomer
7 p.m. Reading


Sunday, August 4
Linda Gregerson
7 p.m. Visiting Writer Reading


Monday, August 5
“The Girl in the Tree: Metamorphosis in the Contemporary Lyric” with Linda Gregerson
1-2:30 p.m. Craft Seminar

Cheryl Strayed
7 p.m. Visiting Writer Reading: Upper Convocation Center


Tuesday, August 6
“And Nothing Was Ever the Same Again: The Art of Revelation”
1-2:30 p.m. Craft Seminar: Upper Convocation Center

Joe Mackall, Bonnie Rough, and Carmen Giménez Smith
7 p.m. Faculty Reading


Wednesday, August 7
Stephen Haven, Robert Root, and Tom Larson
7 p.m. Faculty Reading
Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

Alum Publishes Chapbook with Finishing Line Press

Jen Kindbom, Ashland University MFA class of 2009, has had her chapbook, A Note on the Door , accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press. It will be published in the spring of 2011. Advance sale copies may be purchased on Finishing Line Press's website. About A Note on the Door , Kathryn Winograd has the following to say: " A Note on the Door sparkles in the best tradition of American poetry: the ordinary world made new through the simple vernacular and cadences of American speech. Jen Kindbom is the fay spirit sprinkling our dirty porches, crying babies, and noxious beetles with her magic dust. These are the poems I'll pin to my neighbors' doors."
Read more

Interview with Kyle Winkler

After talking to Lisa Nik, it only seemed right to keep the good juju going and interview one of our newest fiction faculty members, Kyle Winkler. You can learn everything you ever wanted to know about Kyle from this interview and from his website . Thanks to our lovely and talented intern, Angela Manasieva for preparing this interview. 1. Where are you from and how do you use your surroundings to write? I'm from southwest Indiana originally. Rolling hills, farmland, corn, wheat. LOTS of corn and wheat. My landscapes have affected me heavily in my writing. All that tall crop and the sometimes isolating farmland in the autumn during sunset can do a lot to make one feel...creeped out? Hah. I've tried to use my small town upbringing to good effect, as well. I grew up most of life in a working class to middle-class home in the rust belt. So I'm often trying to evoke the experiences and attitudes of the sorts of folks I grew up around and with. And those experiences were, to so...
Read more

AU Ranked in Poets & Writers MFA Index

The annual MFA issue of Poets & Writers is out, and Ashland University's MFA program is listed among the 26 low-residency programs featured. Of the 47 low-residency MFA programs currently available in the United States (Association of Writers and Writing Programs), AU ranks second in job placement, fourth in fellowship placement, and 11th in selectivity.  While the program did not place in a six-year popularity survey, it placed 19th in the popularity survey for 2011. We'll take post-graduate successes over applicant popularity any day. The 26 programs that  Poets & Writers  chose to feature "are those that either placed in the first 25 in a popularity survey taken over six years by a total of 302 applicants to low-residency programs or appear in the first 25 in at least two of the following three categories: selectivity (how selective they are in accepting applicants), fellowship placement (which had the most graduates receive any of forty-two creative wr...
Read more