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March 27, 2015 14:32 ET | Source: Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing

The Empathy Lady/ Celebrated essayist Leslie Jamison, who is on the longlist for a PEN Literary Award, has struck a tricky balance between her privacy and the shared emotion she has come to represent.

MANCHESTER, N.H., March 27, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Last week finalists were announced for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards. "For some writers," said Suzanne Nossel, executive director of PEN American...
December 30, 2014 14:57 ET | Source: Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing

Pacing, Patience, and Practice: Southern New Hampshire University Pushcart Prize nominee Sarah E. Caouette used a Hemingway short story and an MFA program's community of high-achieving writers to find her identity as an artist

MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 30, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Among all our art forms, the practice of literature is perhaps our most solitary. For some, that's part of its appeal. That would be the case with...
October 24, 2014 10:52 ET | Source: Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing

The Proof Is In the Oscars

MANCHESTER, N.H., Oct. 24, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Oscars for short fiction have just hit the bookstores, and you can find them within the covers of Houghton Mifflin's anthology, "Best American...
September 17, 2014 10:52 ET | Source: Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing

Same As It Ever Was

MANCHESTER, N.H., Sept. 17, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This is the dream that writers have—that once you hit a home run, once you publish something big and the applause rings in your ears, then...
June 27, 2014 11:39 ET | Source: Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing

Nugent Takes Charge of Southern New Hampshire's MFA Writing Program

MANCHESTER, N.H., June 27, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Award-winning novelist, essayist, and short story writer Benjamin Nugent has been named the new director of Southern New Hampshire University's...
April 22, 2014 12:03 ET | Source: Southern New Hampshire University MFA and Creative Writing

The Empathy Results

MANCHESTER, N.H., April 22, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leslie Jamison began by describing pain that didn't exist, that was scripted for her in her role as a medical actor in role-playing sessions that...