MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: David Blair, Elizabeth Powell
Fiction/Hybrid Nonfiction: Tom Paine, Jaed Coffin, Sam Seal
Nossrat Yassini Visiting Writer for poetry this year is Elizabeth Powell.
The program offers partial and full funding. The program offers a TAships, numerous graduate assistantships, scholarships, Connors Writing Center and Research Department employment, internships with Portsmouth Music Hall Writer’s Series, editorial opportunities with Barnstorm.
This program hosts the Writers Series—campus visits and readings by prominent writers in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Master classes or Q&A sessions are part of each visit. Students in the MFA program run their own monthly reading series, Read Free or Die. Welcomes writers of both realistic and fantasy/sci-fi fiction.
Late applications rare but possible. Write to Director for consideration at tom.payne@unh.edu.
Shannon Garvey (recently featured on the Today Show), Noah Burton, Maria Chelko, Ursula Hegi, Tim Horvath, Kathleen Jabs, Marilyn Johnson, Elise Juska, Jennifer Latson, Benjamin Ludwig, Alice McDermott, Andrew Mitchell, Thylias Moss, Peggy Rambach, Erin Somers, Gregory Spatz, Jason Tandon, Jan Waldron