MFA Program
See writers who attended this program
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.
The program offers financial aid, graduate teaching assistantships, and scholarships.
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.