CHARACTER TAKEOVER: Finding Your Protagonistby Larry Brenner Spalding MFA Faculty, Playwriting and Screenwriting It was in my first semester as a Spalding MFA student that I got...
Re-mindfulness: An Alum’s Travels In RomeBy: Terry Price Spalding MFA Alumn in Fiction “The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to...
A Few Thoughts On Photography And Fictionby Pete Duval Spalding MFA Faculty, Fiction The language of photography has certain similarities with fiction—in particular with the...
Creating The Illusion Of Action: Verb DensityBy Jody Lisberger Spalding MFA Faculty I’ve been thinking recently about a kind rejection note I received a few weeks ago. The editors...
Welcome Home: A Writer’s Return To RomeBy Sena Jeter Naslund Spalding MFA Program Director It’s a bit odd to say to a group of students and faculty, recently arrived in Rome,...
A Song for an Artist: Who and What Inspires You?By: Eleanor Morse Spalding MFA Faculty While I was teaching at the Spalding residency this past May, an artist friend died. Victor had...
Writing the Nonfiction Book ProposalBy: Susan Bartoletti Spalding MFA Faculty For me, a nonfiction book doesn’t begin with a fact or a subject. It begins with the feeling I...