MFA Program - Downloadable Forms

Kathy Winograd's essay "Bathing" will be published in either the Fall 2009 or Spring 2010 issue of Fourth Genre. Another essay, based on her work with the University of Northern Colorado's Presidential Academy grant and its collaboration with the teachers of the Navajo Nation will be published in an upcoming issue of the American Indian Education and Opportunity magazine, Winds of Change.

Robert Root will be a panelist on two panels at the Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference in Chicago, February 11-14, 2009. The panels are “Must the Memoir Read Like a Novel?" and “Creative in Form, Nonfiction in Content: Perspectives on the Possibilities of Literary Nonfiction.” Bob will also be a visiting writer at the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference in Homer, Alaska, June 12-16, 2009.

Steve Harvey, will have his essay "A Vow of Poverty" published in an upcoming issue of The Florida Review. His essay called "The Art of Self" will be reprinted in the newest edition of The Fourth Genre anthology.

Sarah Wells, Administrative Director, has had her poem, "Pruning Burning Bushes" selected for publication in Issue 2.4 of the journal, Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression. Her chapbook, Acquiesce, will be published by Finishing Line Press.

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."

Downloadable Forms

Current & Prospective Students

Cross-Genre Application Form - Word | PDF

Non-Residential Semester Faculty Evaluation Form - Word | PDF

Summer Residency Faculty Evaluation Form - Word | PDF

Summer Residency Preference Sheet - Word | PDF

Summer Residency Evaluation Form - Word | PDF

Thesis Advisor Preference Sheet - Word | PDF

Faculty Members

Non-Residential Semester Student Evaluation Form - Word | PDF
Summer Residency Preference Sheet - Word | PDF

Summer Residency Evaluation Form - Word | PDF

Download forms, complete, and return to the Administrative Director. Documents may be completed and emailed to swells@ashland.edu. If you prefer to handwrite your responses, they may be mailed to:

Sarah Wells

Administrative Director, MFA Program

Center for the Humanities at Bixler

Ashland University

Ashland, OH 44805

Fax: (419)289-5255 (ATTN: Sarah Wells)

If you have any questions, feel free to email or phone Sarah Wells, swells@ashland.edu, (419)289-5957.