The Summer Stretch
August 11, 2022 By Ellen Hagan, faculty, writing for children and young adults As artists, we are building and creating, crafting and...
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Life of a Writer: Summer Edition
July 7, 2022 EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF—ENJOY! STUDENTS Theresa Anne...
Saying Goodbye to Ginzy: A Spalding Mentor Writes About Her Own Mentor
July 28, 2022 By Lesléa Newman, faculty, Writing for Children and Young Adults Twenty-five years ago, Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet,...
Caring Friends, Generous Communities
July 14, 2022 By Greg Pape, poetry faculty “Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul.” –Stanley Kunitz About...
Let’s Make a Scene
June 30, 2022 By Lee Martin, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty When children misbehave in public, parents often tell them, “Don’t...
Announcing the Distinguished MFA Alumni Lecture Series at the Naslund-Mann School of Writing
Calling for 2022 Proposals from MFA W4CYA Alumni One thing we know for sure? We have spectacular MFA alumni, doing all kinds of notable...
An Infinitely Recursive Childhood
June 16, 2022 By Larry Brenner, faculty, screenwriting and playwriting (originally published 2012) I’ve heard that one of the great parts...
Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Persona Poems in October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
June 9, 2022 by Lesléa Newman, faculty, Writing for Children and Young Adults When I was in fourth grade, I had a pair of red fake-fur...
“It’s Not Nostalgia that Brings Me Back”: A Chat with Terry Price & Marjetta Geerling, Part II
By Katy Yocom In 2007, Terry Price (F ’06) founded the Spalding MFA in Writing Alumni Association. He has served as its director ever...
“We Came Up with the Word ‘Connection’”: A Chat with Terry Price & Marjetta Geerling, Part I
May 13, 2022 By Katy Yocom In 2007, Terry Price (F ’06) founded the Spalding MFA in Writing Alumni Association. He has served as its...
Fear and the Writing Process
by Felicia Rose Chavez, faculty, Creative Nonfiction This article was originally published in Poetry Wales’ Spring 2022 issue under the...
Life of a Writer: May 2022
EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM THE NASLUND-MANN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF STUDENTS Charla Booth’s (PW)...
Creating a Circle of Writing Friends: Stopping the Cycle of Loneliness
By Angela Jackson-Brown, fiction faculty “I’ve found somebody just like me. I thought I was the only one of them.” –Winnie the Pooh...
Planting the Right Seed
By Leah Henderson, faculty, Writing for Children & Young Adults I’m sure I’m not the only one who sometimes feels pressure from my own...
Faculty Announcements from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing
Welcome to the faculty, Karen Salyer McElmurray! The Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing is delighted to welcome...
Highlights! Spalding’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing Spring 2022 Residency, May 21-28
by Kathleen Driskell, Chair Oh, how wonderful it will be to bring our writing community together on Spalding’s campus in Louisville this...
Life of a Writer: Late Winter Edition
EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF—ENJOY! STUDENTS Theresa Anne Carey’s (SW)...
Parts & Wholes
by K. L. Cook The spring semester has just begun, though I use the word “spring” ironically, given that temperatures in Ames, Iowa, have...
Welcome to our Faculty, Lee Martin!
The Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing is delighted to announce that Lee Martin has joined our faculty. Lee, an...
Margaret Renkl’s LATE MIGRATIONS: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss is our Residency Book in Common by Kathleen Driskell, Chair, Sena...
On Voice (Having to Hear It)
By Keith Wilson There is hardly anything more embarrassing than reading something I wrote a long time ago. I cringe every time I...
A Writer’s (Canine) Companion
By Nancy McCabe Dogs are good for writers. They provide undemanding companionship. They give us a reason to walk and think. They show us...
The Importance of Investing in You & Your Writing
By Leah Henderson Life has taught me that in order for my dreams to truly take root and flourish, I must invest in them. I must make them...
Eat, Drink, and Write in the City of Lights! A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Workshop in Paris
Nothing inspires the writing life like the adventure of travel. The new sights, sounds, smells, and all the feels of new ground under our...
On Physical Practice and Water Instincts
By Erin Keane I could swim before I could walk. On visits to my grandparents’ house in Virginia, Grandmother would carry me into her...
Welcome to the faculty, Ellen Hagan!
The Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing is delighted to welcome author and teacher Ellen Hagan to our faculty. Ellen...
The Special Place of Signed Books
by Roy Hoffman Note: This essay originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times “For Sherrell, Who’s helped show me the way from my earliest...
Walking the Line
by Debra Kang Dean When I began writing poetry in earnest, I believed there was nothing writing in lines couldn’t take on and, having...
A $1 million gift leads to a new name, honoring our founders
Twenty years ago, Sena Jeter Naslund and Karen Mann founded Kentucky’s first Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Spalding...
Getting Inside the Words
by Robin Lippincott In Joan Didion’s latest book, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, a collection of previously published but uncollected...