January 16, 2025 By Nancy McCabe, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty   All instructors have our broken-record comments, the ones we...

Henry Hoke Open Throat: A Novel Picador / 2024 / 176 pp / $17.00 Paperback Reviewed by Delaney Aby Saalman / January 2024     “I’ve never...

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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