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Irish Storytelling in 1970s New York

Edward Burns A Kid from Marlboro Road Seven Stories Press / August 2024 / 220 pp / $27.95 Reviewed by Lisa McCormack / December...

On Fearlessness: Writing Truth to Power in Troubling Times

December 5, 2024 by Angela Jackson-Brown, fiction faculty As a fifty-six-year-old Black woman who grew up in the rural south, I have...

With Keats on Machu Picchu

November 14, 2024 by Roy Hoffman, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty How does reading impact our lives? What words frame our...

Three Encounters with Grace

October 31, 2024 by Robin Lippincott, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty In the very first post I wrote for this blog, way back...

Call for Proposals: Writing for Children and Young Adults Spalding MFA Alumni, for Spring 2025 Lecture

The Naslund-Mann School invites MFA alumni who graduated in writing for children and young adults to submit proposals for a...

Travel to Vietnam in 2025

A Naslund-Mann trip to Vietnam in 2025 is open to students, alums and guests. Kathleen Driskell and Katy Yocom lead the trip, Sept. 19-28.

Bob Finch at Spalding: A Remembrance

October 24, 2024 by Richard Goodman, former creative nonfiction faculty There he was, beaten leather briefcase under his arm,...

Calling All Tortured Poets

By Erin Keane, creative nonfiction and poetry faculty On most days in my role as Chief Content Officer at Salon , where I lead a team...

Good Things to Come: Highlights of the Fall 2024 Naslund-Mann Residency on Campus

by Kathleen Driskell, Chair I feel extraordinarily lucky that soon many of us will gather and be nurtured by our warm community of...

Life of a Writer: October 2024

EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF Students Colleen Alles ’s...

Picture This: The Writer/Editor/Illustrator/Art Director Dance

by Lesléa Newman, writing for children and young adults faculty Congratulations! You’ve just sold your first picture book text. You are...

A few encouraging words for when writing is hard

September 19, 2024 by Beth Ann Bauman, faculty, writing for children and young adults A while back, I had a conversation with a...