After debuting at #4 for August (on pre-orders alone) K.T. Landon’s Abide has risen to Itasca’s #1 best seller in September! We’re thrilled around here. This book is unflinchingly human, brave, and lovely. It’s a great book on its own… Read More »Abide is a #1 best seller!
April may be the cruelest month, but it’s ours, poets. Happy National Poetry Month! We’re going to celebrate by doing something meaningful but emotionally dangerous. Huzzah.
We’re excited to welcome writer, filmmaker, former professional athlete, and actor (recently in Heated Rivalry), Harrison Browne, to Ashland University’s campus, for a screening of his film, Pink Light. A Q&A will follow the screening. Monday, March 30, 7:00pmAshland Student… Read More »Harrison Brown comes to Campus
A staggering amount has happened this year for the Ashland Poetry Press. January We re-opened the 2025 Richard Sndyer Book Prize with Kim Addonizio as judge. Poetry Press Director, Chuck Carlise, also took over as Interim Director of the Ashland… Read More »2025 Yearbook
This week we got to host short story writer and novelist Ian Stansel. Stansel is a walking text-book for fiction writers, a great teacher, and a good guy. My only regret is that we couldn’t just keep him around for… Read More »Ashland English Dept and Poetry press welcomes Novelist Ian Stansel
Good news! We’re extending our deadline for submission to the 2025 Richard Snyder Memorial Book Prize! New Deadline: May 15, 2025 $1,000 and publication for the winning manuscript2025 Judge: Kim Addonizio$27/submission — multiple submissions welcome Full guidelines and submissions at:… Read More »Extended deadline!