TAPPING INTO THE “FOREVER EMPTY”: A Conversation between Mentor & Menteeby Gabriel Jason Dean Spalding MFA faculty, Screenwriting Cassie Brower Spalding Screenwriting student, Cassie Brower, is currently the...
LIFE OF A WRITER: February 2017Here’s what our Spalding MFA students, alumni, faculty, and staff have been publishing, producing, and doing since our last update! —...
RE-VISION: Wright-ing; Erasure, Embroidering; the tweakBy Kira Obolensky Spalding MFA faculty, playwriting Once we have “shitty first draft” (thanks to Anne LaMott for this essential...
WRITING WHILE LIVINGBy Leslie Daniels Spalding MFA faculty, fiction I am struck by how many of my students write beautifully in the midst of very dense...
GROWING UP WRITINGBy Nancy McCabe Spalding MFA Faculty, Creative Nonfiction “…reminiscing about my origins as a writer is not just a nostalgic act, but one...
MY SPALDING MFA WORLD TRAVELS WITH KATY & FRIENDSBy Kathleen Driskell Spalding MFA Associate Program Director I’m delighted to be leading our Spalding MFA summer abroad residency in...
THE INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF CREATIVITYBy Heather Meyer Spalding MFA Playwriting alum, Rome ’16 There is a surefire way to clear up writer’s block, and that is to try something...
SAILING WITH AHAB’S WIFEBy Sena Jeter Naslund Spalding MFA Program Director Growing up, it was the novel rather than the short story that had made me want to be...
THE JOYS OF WRITING SHORTBy Katy Yocom Spalding MFA Associate Administrative Director “Write it short, then make it shorter. Watch it start to glow.” Maybe it’s...