| The Summer Residency at Ashland University | |||
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Summer Residency Packet (PDF) |
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Overview
Workshops in 2008 were split into two sessions: Session I was spent working with the mentor students are registered with in the fall, and in Session II, students worked with an alternative mentor, often of their choosing, to get experience with another faculty member prior to the spring semester. Workshops are intimate, rigorous instruction times with one faculty member. No more than five students are assigned to work with a faculty mentor at a time. In 2008, the Ashland MFA program welcomed Marilyn Chin, William Kittredge, Debra Marquart, Kevin Young, Eric Pankey, Jennifer Atkinson, and Floyd Skloot to campus as visiting writers who each presented a craft seminar and reading of their work. Additionally, each of our eight faculty members partnered up to teach a craft seminar and give readings. Past readings and craft seminars by faculy and visiting writers are available on video through this site.
Though details for the 2009 summer residency are not available yet, our visiting writers include C.K. Williams, Scott Russell Sanders, and M.L. Liebler. More information about 2009 to come! Meals and Housing Students are housed on campus in the Senior Apartments or Andrews Hall. While optional, shared meals with other MFA students, faculty, staff, and visiting writers are an important part of building community in the MFA Program. MFA faculty, staff and visiting writers will dine with MFA students during lunch and dinner. Details about room and board including amenities, costs, etc. can be found here: Room and Board. The 2009 Summer Residency will be held Sunday, July 26 through Saturday, August 8. |
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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. |
