January 16, 2025 By Nancy McCabe, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty   All instructors have our broken-record comments, the ones we...

Henry Hoke Open Throat: A Novel Picador / 2024 / 176 pp / $17.00 Paperback Reviewed by Delaney Aby Saalman / January 2024     “I’ve never...

Edward Burns   A Kid from Marlboro Road   Seven Stories Press / August 2024 / 220 pp / $27.95   Reviewed by Lisa McCormack / December...

December 5, 2024   by Angela Jackson-Brown, fiction faculty   As a fifty-six-year-old Black woman who grew up in the rural south, I have...

November 14, 2024 by Roy Hoffman, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty   How does reading impact our lives? What words frame our...

October 31, 2024 by Robin Lippincott, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty In the very first post I wrote for this blog, way back...

The Naslund-Mann School invites MFA alumni who graduated in writing for children and young adults to submit proposals for a...

A Naslund-Mann trip to Vietnam in 2025 is open to students, alums and guests. Kathleen Driskell and Katy Yocom lead the trip, Sept. 19-28.

October 24, 2024   by Richard Goodman, former creative nonfiction faculty   There he was, beaten leather briefcase under his arm,...

By Erin Keane, creative nonfiction and poetry faculty   On most days in my role as Chief Content Officer at Salon , where I lead a team...

by Kathleen Driskell, Chair    I feel extraordinarily lucky that soon many of us will gather and be nurtured by our warm community of...

EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF   Students   Colleen Alles ’s...

by Lesléa Newman, writing for children and young adults faculty   Congratulations! You’ve just sold your first picture book text. You are...

September 19, 2024   by Beth Ann Bauman, faculty, writing for children and young adults   A while back, I had a conversation with a...

September 12, 2024   By Charlie Schulman, faculty, writing for TV, screen, and stage   New play development in the American theater has...

September 5, 2024 by Greg Pape, poetry faculty     On the campus of the University of Montana, where I taught from 1987 to 2016, one of...

EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF   Students Colleen Alles , a...

August 16, 2024 by Kathleen Driskell, Chair, Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing, Spalding University Solito: A...

August 8, 2024 by Dianne Aprile, creative nonfiction faculty “Don’t write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words...

July 25, 2024 By Lynnell Edwards, poetry faculty, associate programs director As I draft this essay about the value and rewards of being...

July 11, 2024 by Lee Martin, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty I begin with this famous quote from Robert Frost: “No tears in the...

by Ellyn Lichvar, managing editor, Good River Review We here at Good River Review are over the moon to celebrate two Pushcart Prizes: one...

June 27, 2024 By John Pipkin, fiction faculty There are no easy shortcuts to writing compelling narratives, but sometimes there are tidy...

Katie Farris Standing in the Forest of Being Alive Alice James Book / 2023 / 100 pp / $18.95 Reviewed by Laura Candler / June 2024 Film...

June 13, 2024 By Lesléa Newman, faculty, writing for children and young adults Congratulations! You have already done all the research...

EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF STUDENTS Judy Harju Galliher, a...

June 3, 2024 by Leah Henderson, writing for children and young adults faculty There are so many ways a writer can come to a story. You...

by Roy Hoffman, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty An earlier version of this essay was delivered as a lecture at the Chautauqua...

Peter W. Fong ROWING TO BAIKAL: Sixty Days on Mongolia’s Selenge River Latah Books / December 2023 / 330 pp / $19.95 Reviewed by Greg...

by Katy Yocom, Associate Director Virtual Homecoming is a gathering for alumni to spend time with Spalding friends old and new, wherever...