| Financial Aid for Students in the MFA Program |
Ashland University participates in the Federal Stafford Loan Program. This program is available for all eligible students enrolled in the MFA program. In addition, there are private education loan programs available for MFA students.
Financial aid will not be processed until students are accepted into the MFA Program. However, prospective students may begin the financial aid application process prior to acceptance to ensure that all forms have been received by the Financial Aid Office and are ready to be processed as soon as students receive their acceptance letters. |
| How to Apply |
In addition to the AU Graduate Loan Application and the completion of the FAFSA, all MFA students need to complete a separate AU Summer Session Loan Application (for the Summer Residency) in order to access federal loan funding during the summer. Students interested in receiving financial aid should follow the procedures listed on Ashland University's Financial Aid webpage at http://www.ashland.edu/finaid.Following the procedure below will make your financial aid application process go as smoothly as possible: • Click on Graduate Students in the First Steps box to find the links for:
• Click on Graduate Students in the Next Steps box to find these links:
Each AU student is assigned a Financial Aid Counselor. Financial Aid Counselors are assigned according to students' last names. Click on the Contact Us link to obtain your counselor's name and contact information or call 1-800-882-1548 x5003. |
| Outside Resources |
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability—selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise—to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences. The deadline for application is typically in the fall of each year. Visit the website for more information: http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html |
Michigan State University Libraries - Grants & Scholarships The Library at Michigan State University has compiled a comprehensive, up-to-date list of scholarships and grants broken down by category, demographics, and level of education. This is a free, public resource. Grants are not exclusively for MSU students - these are national and regional grants open to anyone who qualifies. Students are encouraged to research the thousands of grants available for graduate students, writing students, and other categories you may fit in. |
About the MFA at AU |
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Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative |
Faculty & Student News |
Joanna Robinson, MFA student, has had her lyric essay, "Mars" selected for publication in an upcoming issue of The Southern Review . |
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, Incoming 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. |