Ashland University MFA Program

Interested in enrolling in our MFA Program? Then you probably have questions. We've got answers and we're serving them up at an Open House on Saturday, March 19. We invite prospective and newly accepted students to join us on campus in Ashland, Ohio from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Program Director, Dr. Stephen Haven will present information on the details of our curriculum and study, including: the different genres in the program the nature of a low-residency MFA program the sequence of courses the cross-genre emphasis the experience of our two-week intensive summer residencies how non-residential online classes work Admissions Representative T.J. Shannon and MFA Administrative Director Cassandra Brown will also be on hand to answer questions about the application process, summer residency, and more. After the presentation, participants may stay for a free lunch in our campus dining hall and an optional campus tour (weather permitting). If you plan to attend the open h...

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 Barely South Review is now accepting submissions for our Spring 2016 Reading Period. We welcome submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, and short essays on craft. Deadline is April 1, 2016. http://barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com/submission-guidelines/ Hippocampus magazine is seeking works of creative nonfiction on “firsts” for their 2016 theme issue , which will be available in July. Submissions should be up to 3,500 words. Deadline April 15. https://hippocampusmagazine.submittable.com/submit/51671 Barking Sycamores is a literary journal publishing poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid genre works, and art by neurodivergent (autistic, ADHD, bipolar, dyslexic, etc.) writers and artists. They seek work for an unthemed Issue 9 (Spri...