MFA Program
See writers who attended this programPoetry: David Blair
Fiction: Jaed Coffin, Thomas Payne, Ann Joslin Williams
Nonfiction: Jaed Coffin, Susan Hertz
Visiting Writer for poetry is Diannely Antigua.
The program offers partial and full funding. The program offers teaching and graduate assistantships, scholarships, Connors Writing Center and Research Department employment, internships with Portsmouth Music Hall Writer’s Series, editorial opportunities with Barnstorm, and ESL teaching opportunities.
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.
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