Mountainview MFA

Summer Residency 2025 Southern New Hampshire University - On Campus

Very proud of @apcalvin42 MFA'22, recipient of the 2024 Reporter of the Year Award from the New England Newspaper Association. And we're very grateful to him for helping to keep regional news alive, sharp, and free of AI-generated slop despite adverse conditions.

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Some of our alums have organized this spring retreat all by themselves, and there are still some spaces left.

www.mountainviewalumni.com SNHU mountainview MFA Alunmi Retreat

John Vercher '16MFA, who wrote his first novel as his thesis in our program, is now longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner award for his third novel, Devil is Fine.

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Y’all. Y’ALL. I cannot believe this. Thank you so much to @penfaulkner and huge congratulations to the nominees. I’m beyond honored to be on this list with you. Posted @withregram • @penfaulkner We are thrilled to announce the longlist of books for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction! From these selections, the judges will choose five finalists to be announced in early March. The winning book—the “first among equals”—will be announced in April.

Want to congratulate John Vercher '16MFA on his novel, Devil is Fine, named one of TIME's 100 Best Books of the Year, an Indie Next Pick, and one of Electric Literature's Best Novels of the Year.

As we reboot this page, after a bit of a pause, it seems appropriate to call attention to our faculty member Justin Taylor's novel Reboot, a New York Times Notable book of 2024.

Here at Mountainview MFA, we’re so proud of faculty member Justin Taylor and his novel “Reboot” coming April 23rd! Check out our website for all the details! . . . . . #writing #creativewriting #literarymagazinesofinstagram #poetry #visualart #nonfiction #fiction #writersofinstagram #snhu

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/04/benjamin-nugent-vale-cashmere/678039/

The Vale of Cashmere A short story

In our most recent episode of the Assignment Magazine Podcast, Gillian and Rebecca talk to David Simpatico, an award-winning librettist and Mountainview MFA alum. David was absolutely brilliant and shared some wonderful words about his time in the MFA program. He gave us permission to clip two of his operas, which are played during the podcast:
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, or Soundcloud.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6tXObGraCBJiwO1ae6fOkT...

Assignment S1E4: Interview with Librettist David Simpatico Listen to this episode from Assignment | The Official Podcast of the Mountainview MFA at SNHU on Spotify. Mountainview MFA alum and celebrated librettist David Simpatico sits down with Rebecca and Gillian to discuss his award-winning career. Simpatico shares the inspiration behind some of his most n...

I Just Want to Tell You That I’ve Missed You — ASSIGNMENT It takes about 3 minutes to get an x-ray of my chest. I can feel the wavelengths highlighting something deadly, at least that’s what it always feels like.