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Current Students: For any student already enrolled in the Ashland MFA Program, you may make online tuition payments via the following link. You will need your student ID number. Click on the link below and complete the online payment form. Registration for Spring will open November 1 and close December 12. |
New Students: For students recently accepted into the Ashland MFA Program, you will each need to make a $500 nonrefundable tuition deposit to secure a position in the incoming class. The $500 deposit will be credited toward the first semester's tuition cost. You may choose to pay your tuition deposit by check, or to pay online. To make an online tuition deposit, you will need to locate your Ashland University student ID number on your acceptance letter. (To find your student ID number you can also call 419-289-5957). Click the link below to complete the online payment form.
If you choose to mail your tuition deposit, make your check payable to Ashland University. Please include your student ID number on the check, and the note "MFA Tuition Deposit." See your acceptance letter to find your student ID number, or call 419-289-5957. Send your deposit to: Benjamin Valentine Director of Student Accounts Ashland University Ashland, OH 44805 |
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Faculty & Student News |
Grace Curtis, MFA student, has had her poem, "Brilliance" selected for publication in the September issue of the eJournal down in the dirt. |
Joy Gaines-Friedler's first book of poems, Like Vapor, has been published by Mayapple Press. |
Valerie Due, MFA student, has had her essay "The Skinning Board" selected as the winner of the Writers at Work nonfiction fellowship competition, which includes prize money, publication in Quarterly West, a featured reading at the Writers at Work Conference, full tuition for the conference, free housing, and a manuscript consultation with a visiting writer or agent while at the conference. Abigail Thomas, the judge of the contest, had this to say about Due's piece:
"I love the emotional restraint coupled with the ravishing prose of the piece. It serves so perfectly the young narrator whose initiation into the harsh realities of life--and death--on a farm is being presented here." |
Peter Campion's essay on poetry and politics is now featured on Poetry Daily. He won a Pushcart Prize for his poem, "Just Now." |
Robert Root's The Nonfictionist's Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction will be published in paperback edition in August 2008 by Rowman and Littlefield. |
Stephen Haven's new book The River Lock: One Boy's Life Along the Mohawk has been published by The University of Syracuse Press. |
Angie Estes has had three of her poems translated and published in the recent Russian anthology Contemporary Poetry in the United States: A Bilingual English-Cyrillic Edition. New poems also appear in the Spring 2008 issue of FIELD. Her lyric essay, "Want," was just published in the anthology Every Passing Breath: Contemporary Poets Respond to the Psalms. |
Amy Campbell, MFA student, was a finalist for the Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize for her piece, "A World Away." |
Timothy West, Incoming MFA student, has had his poem "To My Daughter on a Workday" selected to be featured on an RTA bus card in Cleveland, Ohio for the annual Moving Minds: The Verse and Vision Project. |
