BA Creative Writing

Program Details

• Live What You Learn

  • You can look forward to working with experienced faculty who are themselves active in the field of creative writing.
  • Take part in the program’s public reading series, work in an editorial and staff writer capacity with NEC’s annual publications, The Henniker Review and Edge Adventure NH Magazine, as well as the college’s bi-weekly newspaper, The New Englander.
  • You will enjoy the opportunity to attend master classes with visiting faculty on an annual basis.

• Career Opportunities

  Creative Writing students go on to be successful in a broad spectrum of careers, and many attend graduate school.

  The strength of a creative writing background—in combination with the practical, hands-on education unique to the Creative Writing program at NEC—affords students the opportunity to be successful in a wide variety of fields ranging from freelance writing to careers in law and business.

  In addition, engagement in community-based activities as a Creative Writing major gives students the chance to create strong and lasting professional connections.

Faculty

• Andrew Morgan

  Professor, Creative Writing
  Office: Spaulding, Henniker Campus
  Phone 603.428.2349
  Email: amorgan@nec.edu

  Bio

  Andrew Morgan is a poet and fiction writer who has been teaching at New England College for the last 15 years. He has been the recipient of a Slovenian Writer’s Association Fellowship which sponsored a month long writing residency in the country’s capital city of Ljubljana and his recent work can be found in magazines such as Conduit, Stride, Fairy Tale Review, Pleiades, Divine Magnet, Post Road, and New World Writing. His first book, Month of Big Hands was published by Natural History Press in 2013. Morgan teaches in both the undergraduate as well as graduate creative writing programs.

• Jennifer Militello

  Program Director, MFA in Creative Writing
  Office: Spaulding 203, Henniker Campus
  Phone: 603.428.2309
  Email: jmilitello@nec.edu
  Professional Website: jennifermilitello.com

  Recent Press

  • The Pact, Tupelo Press, 2021
  • Knock Wood, Dzanc Books, 2019
  • A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, Tupelo Press, 2016
  • Body Thesaurus, Tupelo Press, 2013
  • Flinch of Song, Tupelo Press, 2009
  • Anchor Chain, Open Sail; Finishing Line Press, 2006

  Other notable press:

  • Knock Wood featured at NHPR
  • “Opinion” in The Nation
  • Reading at Georgetown University
  • “The Punishment of One Is the Love Song of Another” in Best American Poetry 2020

  Educational Background
  PhD, Bath Spa University
  MFA, University of North Carolina Greensboro
  BA, University of New Hampshire

  Bio
  Jennifer Militello is the author of six books of poetry and nonfiction, including, most recently, The Pact and Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. Her work has been called “positively bewitching” by Publishers Weekly and “contemplative and fascinating” by Booklist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has called her “one of the best poets of her generation.”

  Her work appears in such journals as American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, POETRY, and Tin House, as well as in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, and Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion. She has been awarded the Barbara Bradley Award, the Yeats Poetry Prize, the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, the Betty Gabehart Prize, and the 49th Parallel Award, as well as grants and fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Writers at Work, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.

  Militello taught at Brown University, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Rhode Island School of Design before joining the faculty at New England College. She lives in Goffstown, New Hampshire.

  Learn more about New England College’s MFA in Creative Writing program.

• Maura MacNeil

  Professor, Creative Writing
  Office: Spaulding 204, Henniker Campus
  Phone 603.428.2304
  Email: mmacneil@nec.edu

  Expertise, Awards, and Recent Press
  Awards:

  • NEC Kilgore Faculty of the Year Award, 2007
  • New Hampshire College and University Council’s Outstanding Teaching in Postsecondary Education Award, 2013
  • Periclean Faculty Leadership Grant from the Lang Foundation for the development of the course titled “Community in Our Towns: The NH Town Meeting” with Professor Inez McDermott

  Books:

  • This Last Place, Dancing Girl Press, 2019
  • Lost Houses, Kelsay Books, 2016
  • A History of Water, Finishing Line Press, 2007

  Founder/Editor: off the margins, offthemargins.com

  Educational Background
  MFA, Vermont College of the Arts
  BA, New England College

  Research Interests

  • Creative nonfiction and memory narrative
  • Hybridity, Contemporary American Poetry, and Poetics
  • Feminist literature and revisionist mythology

  Bio
  Maura MacNeil is a professor, writer, and editor who is the author of the poetry collections. Her poetry, prose, and critical writing have been published and anthologized both nationally and internationally in numerous publications. She is the founder and editor of Off the Margins, a website “that pushes the boundaries of language, conventional form, blended genre, and prose flash, featuring women writers who fearlessly tell the truth and risk vulnerability to give voice to their experience.” Her poetry has been nominated four times for the prestigious Pushcart Award. She was a founding member of the Stone Bridge Poetry Project and co-founder and editor of Entelechy International: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas and currently serves on the board of the Monadnock Writers’ Group. She is committed to community-based creative collaboration and is an active presenter for the NH Humanities to Go Program with her program titled “Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories.”

Degree Requirements