
MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of New Hampshire

The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Writing at UNH offers an intimate, highly-regarded program where you'll develop your craft alongside nationally recognized faculty and dedicated peers. The program is small, highly-ranked and selective. We emphasize one-on-one contact between a nationally recognized faculty and talented students.
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Ben LudwigTestimonials
“I cherished my time at UNH’s MFA in Creative Writing program and consider it one of the best investments I’ve made. The workshops were particularly valuable and the professors and my cohort were instrumental to my growth as a writer and the completion of my short story collection. As a T.A., I taught composition and rhetoric and fiction, supported by an invaluable practicum that has shaped my teaching practice as a creative writing professor.”
Amy Neswald
MFA '17
“The MFA at UNH was the perfect place for me to become a better writer. The community is serious yet supportive, and the student-run journal (Barnstorm) and monthly reading series (Read Free or Die) let us dip our toes into the publishing world and regularly read our stuff aloud to the public. Tom Paine and the other faculty care deeply about student’s writing, and the seacoast has it all: winding coastlines, the White Mountains to the north, and Boston an hour south.”
Dani Mueller
MFA '25