新罕布什尔南方大学

Our two-year, low-residency program allows students to live anywhere and work a full-time job. We never allow the number of students to exceed 65, so our students develop close and sustaining relationships with faculty during our intensive weeklong residencies in June and January. During the rest of the year our students work with faculty one-on-one, receiving thorough, regular editorial letters supplemented with phone calls.

The Mountain view Low-Residency MFA in Fiction or Nonfiction

• An award-winning, nationally-recognized faculty
• Great flexibility of schedule
• A curriculum designed to help each student finish an excellent, publishable book
• A vibrant and supportive creative writing community
• An advisory board of agents and editors from the best agencies and publishing houses, committed to our program and to working with students
• Internship and teaching opportunities
• A cap of 65 students, to maximize one-on-one teaching
• Two faculty members who specialize in young adult literature
• Two faculty members who specialize in environmental writing
• An annual writing contest whose winner is published in the university literary magazine
• Awards and scholarships
• Highly competitive tuition costs
• No GRE required

Curriculum

Our two-year program includes mentored courses that allow you to write from home and be part of a supportive Mountainview MFA writing community, both online and during twice-yearly residency programs.

During these two years, students work toward completing their creative thesis, a book-length manuscript of publishable quality, turning in monthly submissions to their mentors, and receiving detailed feedback via correspondence and conferencing.

Each semester, students work with their individual faculty mentors in developing reading lists. Students read approximately two books a month, focusing their attention on craft analysis. Every part of the curriculum is designed to advance the writer in his/her skills and understanding of the writing craft, and toward helping the student with his/her final thesis.

Upon completion of the program, students will have earned a 60-credit graduate degree, which is considered ''a terminal degree'' in creative writing. The Mountainview MFA degree prepares students and qualifies them for applying for college teaching positions.