The Latest In a Series of Love Affairs/"Holy Fool," the debut novel by Kenneth Butler, owes a little something to Sinatra, perhaps, but more to the creative--and spiritual--passion of its author. MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 17, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- They're like a series of love affairs, the various events that led to the publication last month of "Holy Fool," the novel that had also been...

A Couple of Good Risks: Two acclaimed authors of Young Adult novels--Robin Wasserman and Diane Les Becquets--sign deals on Publisher's Row for adult literary fiction MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 21, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Two award-winning Young Adult novelists—both of them faculty members in Southern New Hampshire University's low-residency MFA in Fiction and...

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...

Firmly In Place MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- There are writers who live in New England, and then there are New England writers. By virtue of her dirt-under-the-fingernails sense of place, Edie...

First of All, Get Pissed: A provocative new blog from the MFA faculty of Southern New Hampshire University MANCHESTER, N.H., Dec. 13, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- How did Sy Montgomery—the famously gentle author of the New York Times best-seller "The Good, Good Pig"—get her start as a writer? Of...