by Ruby C. Berryman Spalding MFA Playwriting Alumna (2013) Chicago-based artist Julian Williams painted Englewood Boys, a portrait...

by Kathleen Driskell Spalding MFA Associate Program Director Publications in good literary magazines lead often to book publication, not...

by Fenton Johnson At the grave risk of thumbing my nose at the writing goddess for whom I have such love and respect, I don’t believe in...

Life of a Writer: News & Events October 2014 Students Brooke Bullman (F) was recently interviewed on public radio about her 2014...

by Joan Donaldson Alumnus, Creative Nonfiction/Writing for Children & Young Adults ’08 For over twenty years, I volunteered as a literacy...

by Katy Yocom Associate Administrative Director In 1909, while working for the Insurance Institute in Prague, Franz Kafka wrote a report...

Life of a Writer: News & Events September 2014 Students Tara Anderson (PW) and Taj Whitesell (SW) will have their 10-minute plays...

by Jody Lisberger, Spalding MFA Faculty, Fiction. More and more, as I revise the first draft of my novel, I begin to see my metaphor for...

by Debra Kang Dean, Spalding MFA Faculty, Poetry. I don’t think of myself as particularly creative or intelligent, so it often strikes me...

by Edie Hemingway, Spalding MFA Faculty, Writing for Children and Young Adults. Most likely this is something you’re not expecting. ...