Ashland University MFA Program

Announcing new books by faculty members at Ashland University: Enchantée by Angie Estes "Angie Estes has recently created some of the most beautiful verbal objects on the planet." —Stephen Burt, Boston Review Publisher's Weekly review of Enchantée Enchantée is recommended in Salon's Ultimate Book Guide for 2013 . Order  Enchantée  on Amazon Milk & Filth by Carmen Gim é nez Smith "Giménez Smith generously deploys physical—often violent—imagery to challenge classist, consumerist, and socially polite forms of feminism."—Publishers Weekly "A sharp, feminist manifesto by way of poetry collection."— The Nation Order Milk & Filth  on Amazon The Sanctuary of Illness: A Memoir of Heart Disease by Thomas Larson ''Written in the tradition of Sherwin Nuland and Anatole Broyard, Thomas Larson's The Sanctuary of Illness is both a meditation on mortality and a call to arms in the face of the inevitable. By...

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 2014 William Matthews Poetry Prize We are now considering submissions for the 2014 William Matthews Poetry Prize! Final Judge for 2014: Billy Collins First Place: $1,000, publication in Asheville Poetry Review , and a featured reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville Second Place: $250, publication, and a featured reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore Third Place: publication and a featured reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore The final judging process will be “blind” (all identifying information will be removed from the poems). All submissions will be considered for publication. Postmark Deadline: January 15, 2014 Send 3 poems, any style, any theme, any length, with a $20 entry fee (payable to Asheville Poetry Review) to: William Matthews Poetry Prize c/o Asheville Poetry Review PO Box 7086 ...