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! —...
GEORGE GETSCHOW SCHOLARSHIP FOR MAYBORN CONFERENCE BENEFITS SPALDING MFA STUDENTS, ALUMSFor Spalding MFAers who write creative nonfiction, the George Getschow Scholarship provides funding to attend the 2017 Mayborn Literary...
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...
CRAFTING SURPRISE IN FICTIONBy Beth Ann Bauman Spalding MFA Faculty, Writing for Children & Young Adults There are truisms about life we all accept—e.g., rejection...
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...