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Brunch with Us: A Reading and Celebration of Martha Rhodes

Join Friends of Writers on Sunday, September 28th at Trident Booksellers & Cafe at 338 Newbury Street from 11 to 1 pm for brunch, readings, a silent auction, and good company. Featured readings by Martha Rhodes, Joan Aleshire, Helen Fremont, and Ellen Bryant Voigt. Tickets required.

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Submit your work to the Friends of Writers Forum

Alumni and Faculty from the MFA Program for Writers are welcome to submit their publication news directly to the Forum. We publish various types of content including short excerpts from newly published poems, stories, interviews, recognitions, opportunities for alumni and more!

ABOUT US

Our mission is to foster vital literary voices and initiatives.

Our vision is a world in which literary community is vibrant, inclusive, and well-supported. We do this by soliciting, managing, and disbursing funds to support writers as they seek and fulfill their potential through graduate study and beyond. FOW values rigorous writing programs and projects that encourage the development of the individual’s finest work, and also values the diversity—in aesthetic, ethnicity, gender, age, occupational, geographic, and economic background—that will ensure American writing reflects the entire nation.

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FROM THE FORUM

A New Book from MFA Poetry Faculty Daniel Tobin

August 10, 2025/by friendsofwritersblog

A New Book from Charles Douthat (Poetry ’19)

August 9, 2025/by friendsofwritersblog

Summer 2025 Graduation Remarks from Jason Schneiderman

August 1, 2025/by Nuha Fariha

A New Book from Don Colburn (Poetry ’92)

July 31, 2025/by friendsofwritersblog

Scholarships and Projects

Friends of Writers raises funds that support students, faculty and alums.

We launch and support activities and infrastructure designed to ensure that our diverse community of poets and fiction writers continue to flourish.

SCHOLARSHIPS & PROJECTS

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