Grants and Writing Resources for Southern New Hampshire University
SNHU's 2026 Ethics Challenge picked 40 students from nearly 400 applicants and gave them eight weeks to study food insecurity in eight teams, each student working with a local nonprofit. Every team turned in an informational pamphlet and a recorded presentation. Judges from Easter Seals NH, REACH NH, Visiting Angels NH and Team Rubicon USA chose a team led by an online psychology student; two of its members had looked into falling donations at a North Dakota food pantry and volunteer burnout at The Stewpot in Jackson, Mississippi.
Where Student Writing Appears
SNHU staff launched The Penmen Review, the university's online journal for creative writers, in fall 2012. It accepts writing in all genres year-round, reviews submissions each quarter, and charges no submission fee. Its Fall Fiction Contest reached its 12th year in 2026. Stories run to 1,500 words, entrants must be 18 or older and based in the continental U.S., and first place wins a $3,000 SNHU scholarship toward a bachelor's or master's degree, with $2,000 and $1,000 scholarships for second and third.
The journal's site reports the results of the Graphic Storytelling Challenge. Teams of Global Campus undergraduates in graphic design and creative writing had eight weeks to produce a four-page comic with a cover, and the judges came from Penguin Random House and After Hours Press, joined by an illustrator and comic artist.
Research Days
Undergraduate Research Day took proposals in four categories in 2023: original research, secondary research, creative or technical works, and case studies. Campus undergraduates presented in Manchester, and online students were limited to the first 30 accepted proposals. That year each of three schools offered one scholarship for campus undergraduates who presented.
Doctoral students in the PhD in International Business attend a doctoral research day every fall and spring semester. For anyone moving from a paper to a journal, the Shapiro Library's guide to scholarly communication and publishing covers journal articles, books, predatory publishers and poster design.
Writing Help Online and on Campus
Online students reach Academic Support through modules in their Brightspace courses, and every SNHU student can use the Academic Resource Center, a library of writing documents and videos. Doctoral students get 24/7 writing support through tutor.com, where they can meet a live tutor or submit a paper and get written feedback within 12 hours.
Students taking courses on the Manchester campus use the Wolak Learning Center on the second floor of the Shapiro Library. Tutoring, academic coaching and written feedback come at no additional cost.
Dissertations and the Archive
The EdD in Educational Leadership is a 48-credit, low-residency cohort program built around a Dissertation in Practice. Students are assigned to a dissertation committee in term 7, and the Dissertation II course completes three parts: a Practitioner Product, a Journal Article and a Reflective component. In the PhD in International Business, the dissertation committee, normally at least four faculty members, must approve the dissertation before the student gives an oral presentation.
The library's theses and dissertations collection holds doctoral work in community economic development, education and international business, along with master's theses in creative writing, English and history. With the author's permission, these go online in the SNHU Digital Archives. Student research also appears in the SNHU Academic Archive.
Students finishing a Dissertation in Practice, a master's thesis or a course paper can send it to us for a final edit of grammar, consistency and format. See our Southern New Hampshire University dissertation and thesis editing and Southern New Hampshire University essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.
From Our Writing Guides
Compiled by James Peterson Brown, PhD, Managing Editor of Editors For Students. Links checked October 2026.
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