Are you a writer? Do you live in the Midwest/would like to spend 2 weeks in Ohio in the summer? We are busy planning for a truly epic summer residency, and we'd love for you to join. Hear from these amazing visiting writers and take intensive writing classes with our faculty!

November will be here before you know it. Nimrod Journal is a great publication and has published many poets I admire. Send Boris Dralyuk and his staff your best poems.

Part of MFA at Ashland University mission is to contribute to the Great Midwest Literary Revival! We're thrilled to welcome novelist Jonathan Geltner as a new faculty member to the MFA and encourage you to check out his novel, Absolute Music (Slant Books). slantbooks.org/books/absolute…

Writing good poetry is hard. Figuring out how to get good poetry published may be even harder. We're thrilled to welcome Steven Knepper of New Verse Review to MFA at Ashland University as we build up opportunities for editing and publishing for our students and alumni. newversereview.com

The good folks at The Classical Outlook asked me to write a note about the set of poems they just published. I recounted my chance encounter, as a young library goer, with a trove of classics in translation….

Alumni: please check your email for an invite to a virtual conversation later this month. If you don't get my emails--sorry, you're probably one of 30+ alumni whose emails bounce every time I send out an alumni list email. If you would like to get our updates, please reach out!

In this roundup of book recommendations, we spy MFA at Ashland University faculty member Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's memoir. trillmag.com/culture/books/…

A big week for our Creative Writing community at Ashland University - come check out this event TODAY! Sarah M. Wells will be on campus to discuss "writing at the crossroads of faith, science, and hope." Thank you Writing and Communication Center (WCC) for hosting this amazing writer! #WritingCommunity 💜💛

I may have had too much fun writing this review of R.F. Kuang's latest, Katabasis, today in The Dispatch. The novel is brilliant and entertaining, but it also takes on a serious topic--the idolatries of academia. thedispatch.com/article/kuang-…

Congratulations to Jane Clark Scharl! She will be speaking at this coming summer residency MFA at Ashland University--and a staged reading of one of her plays is planned as well.

Plato (427–347 BCE) — the ancient Greek philosopher and student of Socrates — believed that wisdom starts with reflection and intention. His words remind us that every great achievement begins with the courage to start thoughtfully. ✨ #Plato #wcc_au

You know Tolkien and Lewis, but do you know the "oddest" Inkling, Charles Williams? His final novel, All Hallows' Eve is 80 years old this year. An interview with Grevel Lindop, Charles Williams biographer (and award-winning poet): mereorthodoxy.com/charles-willia…

New Verse Review is open from November 1 through November 30 for poetry submissions to its winter issue. We'd be honored if you shared your work with us. Full details👇.

This Friday (Nov. 7), 6:00-7:00pm ET, join us for a virtual panel on publishing with editors from University of Tampa Press and FPR Books. Need a link? Email or DM me!!

Happening tonight!

Main takeaway from this delightful conversation: small press editors are amazing.

There's always planning and admin work and it's good and needed, but what really gives joy to a writer's soul is, well, writing!

Are you a writer with a manuscript in search of a press? Passing along information about a writing contest: Subito Press of the University of Colorado announces the Subito Innovative Writing Contest. For details, see below! colorado.edu/journal/subito/

We've extended the deadline to November 24th, so there's still plenty of time to submit with the QR code below or email us at [email protected].

So very grateful for the generosity and literary citizenship that these accomplished writers repeatedly demonstrate. Learn their stories of becoming writers in this interview. Then in Part II, read their advice for writers thinking about MFA programs (especially Christian ones!).