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. Journal Submissions pacificREVIEW  "Vivarium" theme The newest issue of the pacificREVIEW seeks dynamic pieces of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narratives, photography, and artwork that speak to the theme of “Vivarium” and interrogate the ever-blurring line between "real" and "unreal" settings. Submission period ends February 28. https://sdsupacificreview.submittable.com/submit Female Writers – All Genres, All Topics Minerva Rising Literary Journal is seeking short stories, essays, poetry, creative non-fiction, flash fiction, original prints, graphic arts and photographs for their upcoming issue. If you’re a woman and you made it and it’s creative and it’s really, really, REALLY good, they want it. Deadline is January 31, 2015. http://minervarising...

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.  Contests  Columbia Annual Writing Competition Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art is now accepting original work in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for the Issue 53 Writing Competition. Entry fee is $15 and deadline is December 1. http://columbiajournal.org/contests-2 New American Press Poetry Book Prize New American Press is currently accepting submissions for its annual poetry book prize. Winner receives $1000, 25 author's copies, and discounted rates on additional copies. Final judge: Maggie Smith, author of The Lamp of the Body and The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison . http://newamericanpress.com/contests/current.php Chapbook Contest for Women Over 50 QuillsEdge Press – Indispensable Poetry by Women Over 50 announce their first chapbook competition, judged by Barb...

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. Contests Atlantis Award for Poetry – great opportunity for graduate students The Poet’s Billow, an organization dedicated to increasing the exposure of poetry, is extending their deadline for the Atlantis Award to November 1st. Submission guidelines: http://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-atlantis-award/ Fiction Writing Contest The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival's Fiction Contest is open to all writers who have not yet published a book of fiction. The deadline is:  November 16th .  Molly Antopol, author of the acclaimed short story collection,  The UnAmericans,  will judge.  (Their one-act play contest deadline is November 1.) http://con13.tennesseewilliams.net/fiction-contest/ Chapbook Award for Short Fiction or Poems...

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.  Red Wolf Journal seeking poetry on theme "celebration and ritual" Red Wolf Journal is an online international poetry journal that is published quarterly. They are inviting emerging and established poets to submit their work for publication in the Fall 2014 issue, which has the general theme of "celebration and ritual." Feel free to follow this theme as broadly or specifically as you wish. Deadline for submissions is September 25, 2014 . Submission guidelines are at http://redwolfjournal. wordpress.com/2014/06/04/fall- 2014-issue-3/. The Puritan's annual literary contest for poetry and fiction The deadline to enter poetry and fiction submissions to The Puritan 's annual literary contest, The Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence is Se...

Congratulations are in order for MFA nonfiction faculty members whose essays have been recognized as Notable Essays in the 2014 Best American Essays anthology. Jill Christman, "Borrowed Babies," Iron Horse, 15.3 (Jill's ebook, " Borrowed Babies ," is now available from Shebooks as well!) Steven Harvey, "The Vanishing Point," Southern Review , Winter 2013 Daniel W. Lehman, "'Proper Names Are Poetry in the Raw': Character Formation in Traumatic Nonfiction," River Teeth, Fall 2013 Sarah M. Wells, the MFA program administrative director and current nonfiction MFA student, also appears in the notables list for her Brevity essay, " Field Guide to Resisting Temptation ." Congratulations!

Each month, the Ashland MFA Program receives calls for submissions and contest deadlines, which it publicizes in its monthly newsletter .  We've been busy with our 2014 Summer Residency program, but now we're back in action! Listed below are this month's calls for submissions.  Red Wolf Journal seeking poetry on theme "celebration and ritual" Red Wolf Journal is an online international poetry journal that is published quarterly. They are inviting emerging and established poets to submit their work for publication in the Fall 2014 issue, which has the general theme of "celebration and ritual." Feel free to follow this theme as broadly or specifically as you wish. Our intention is to spread poetry as far as it can travel. Please join us on the journey. Deadline for submissions is September 25, 2014 .   More information and a link to our submission guidelines can be found here: http://redwolfjournal. wordpress.com/2014/06/04/fall- 2014-issue-3/ ...

If you missed your chance to be on campus for the MFA summer residency, you can still experience a small bit of Ashland by watching videos from this year's residency. Here are links to the videos that are available from this summer (not all sessions were recorded): Kristen Iversen  Reading  (July 20, 2014) Craft Seminar : "The Art of Weaving Memoir and Journalism" (July 21, 2014)  Rosanna Warren Reading  (July 21, 2014) Craft Seminar  "Seeing into Saying" (July 22, 2014) Angie Estes, Leila Philip, and Joe Mackall Reading  (July 22, 2014) Stephen Haven Poetry Craft Seminar "Contrapuntal Movements in the Personal Poem: Lowell & Levis" (July 23, 2014) Steven Harvey and Robert Root Creative Nonfiction Craft Seminar  "Sentences and Sequences: Crafting Prose by Touch & Sound" (July 23, 2014) Judith Kitchen Reading  (July 23, 2014) Craft Seminar "The Poetry In/Of Prose" (July 24, 2014) Kat...

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.  Bellevue Literary Review Prizes The Bellevue Literary Review Prizes recognize exceptional writing about health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. First prize is $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2015 issue of the Bellevue Literary Review. Prizes of $1,000 each are offered in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Deadline: July 1, 2014   Prose should be limited to 5,000 words. Poetry submissions should have no more than three poems (max five pages). Work previously published (including on the internet) cannot be considered.   For complete guidelines: http://www.BLReview.org/submissions/BLRPrizes   The Frank Martin Review accepting Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry and Blogs The Frank Martin Review – a new, semi-annual, independent literary journ...

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. The Muse-an International Journal of Poetry ( www.themuse.webs.com ) is inviting submissions for June 2014 issue. 1. Send 1 to 5 poems and a brief bio-data. 2. The research papers/essays should be not less than 3000 words. Mason's Road Mason’s Road: A Literary and Arts Journal is currently accepting submissions for our ninth issue. The theme for Issue #9 is “Truth,” and we are looking for unique and arresting takes on this topic. All submissions will be given thorough consideration for publication. However, your work will also be considered for our Mason’s Road Literary Prize, which includes publication and a $500 award. For this issue, the award will go to the best entry we receive, as judged by Bill Roorbach, the award-winning author of Life Among Giants . Our submissions period runs...