New England College

MFA Program

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Program Established: 
2002
Location: 
Henniker, NH
Genre: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-Genre
Residency: 
Low
Duration: 
2 Years
Incoming Class Size: 
15-20 each year
Application Deadline: 
November 1, 2025
Application Fee: 
$0
Contact E-mail: 
Core Faculty Includes: 

Poetry: Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Chen Chen, Jennifer Militello, Andrew Morgan, Allison Titus
Fiction/YA: Tara Ison, Leah Johnson, Anna Qu, David Ryan, Allison Titus, Moses Ose Utomi
Nonfiction: Tara Ison, Jennifer Militello, Anna Qu, David Ryan
Writing for Stage and Screen: Mazen, Khaled, Tara Ison, Diandra Pendleton-Thompson

Recent visiting writers include Jericho Brown, Victoria Chang, Andre Dubus III, Vievee Francis, Carmen Maria Machado, and Ocean Vuong.

Funding/Employment Opportunities: 

The program offers financial aid, graduate teaching assistantships, and scholarships.

Other Features: 

The program also offers a dual-genre track, in addition to tracks in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, writing for stage and screen, and YA.

Students attend two six- to ten-day residencies each year, in January and July, on the New England College campus in Henniker and Manchester, New Hampshire.

The program hosts a reading series, writers-in-residence series, visiting writers series, and post-graduate residencies.

The application deadline is November 1 for the January residency and March 1 for the July residency.

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