A Short List of (7) Excellent Craft Books
September 14, 2023 by Greg Pape, poetry faculty Over the years I’ve read many craft books about writing poetry, books meant to inform,...
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Best of the Net Nominations, 2024
After deliberations as a team, we present you with our 2024 Best of the Net Nominations! Poetry Jane Donohue, "Egg and Cheese with God"...
We Were Here: The Subversion of Precision
August 31, 2023 By Lee Martin, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty I was eighteen in 1974 when I picked up my now-wife, Cathy, for...
The Bite and the Charm: A Review of GHOST APPLES by Katharine Coles
Katherine Coles Ghost Apples Red Hen Press / 2023 / 120 pp / $17.95 Reviewed by Melanie Weldon-Soiset / August 2023 Ghost Apples, the...
Spalding Offers Community Creative Writing Workshop Nov. 15-17
Looking for a top-notch workshop and enrichment experience to jump start your writing? Curious about Spalding’s graduate programs in...
Professor Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Wins Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace & Justice 2023
by Kathleen Driskell, Chair, Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing, Spalding University The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du...
Life of a Writer: August 2023
EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF ALUMNI Avitus B. Carle (F ’16)...
Enrichment Travel: Portugal, 2024
by Katy Yocom, Associate Director, Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing We’re pleased to announce that Portugal is the destination for...
Our first 20-year class reunion! And more alumni opportunities at fall residency
By Katy Yocom, Associate Director Class Reunions: 2003 and 2013 It’s been twenty years since Spalding’s first MFA graduating class...
SpaldingCon Post-graduate Writers’ Conference, 2023
Each fall, the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing presents SpaldingCon, a post-graduate writers’ conference. SpaldingCon is offered...
Our AI Moment in Poetry
August 17, 2023 by Lynnell Edwards, poetry faculty and associate programs director Poetry is having a moment. Yes, yes, we’ve heard this...
My BLUE TERRITORY Redux
August 3, 2023 by Robin Lippincott In the fall of 2022, Tidal Press, the original publisher of Blue Territory, decided to close up shop,...
Spalding adds a new virtual residency option for students
Spalding is well known for the flexibility we offer students, and we continue to innovate in ways that allow us to provide exemplary...
My Enrichment Semester, or How I Escaped My Comfort Zone and Finally Found Work-Life Balance
July 20, 2023 By Marjetta Geerling, MFA Alumni Association Director When I graduated from the Spalding MFA program in 2011, I knew at...
Tasting Notes
July 12, 2023 by Erin Keane, creative nonfiction and poetry faculty “Whatever you smell and taste is what you smell and taste,” says the...
A Close Reading of War and Peace
July 6, 2023 By Larry Brenner, faculty, writing for TV, screen, and stage Lately, I have been on a classic literature kick. I’ve been...
Spend It All, And Other Writing Advice
June 22, 2023 By Beth Ann Bauman, faculty, writing for children and young adults faculty Recently, I had a conversation with a writer...
Life of a Writer: June 2023
EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF ALUMNI Brandi Bradley (F ’14)...
“I Started Thinking About My Family’s Story in Light of #MeToo”: A Conversation with Erin Keane
June 8, 2023 By Jason Kyle Howard, creative nonfiction faculty During residency last November, in between workshops and lectures and...
The War Ends at Four: An Interview with Rosanna Staffa
May 11, 2023 By Robin Lippincott It is always cause for celebration when an alum of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing’s MFA...
Spalding's Festival of Contemporary Writing: Full line-up
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok headlines Spalding University’s Festival of Contemporary Writing May 27 – 30. Her...
Homecoming 2023: Check out both schedules and register here!
It's time to register for Homecoming. Check out the in-person and virtual schedules here!
The Plein Air Writer: Writing as an Outdoor Activity
April 27, 2023 by Greg Pape, poetry faculty Plein air painting has a long history, going back to the first pictographic rock artists, but...
Life of a Writer: April 2023
EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF ALUMNI Natalie Axton’s (F ’19)...
Welcome back home! Highlights of the Spring 2023 Residency at Spalding
Brian Hamptom (PW ’06) presents the Distinguished Alumni Lecture in Writing for TV, Screen and Stage by Kathleen Driskell, Chair On...
A Poetry Playlist for National Poetry Month
April 6, 2023 by Lynnell Edwards, poetry faculty In past years I have used this space each April to proclaim my commitment to a...
Reimagining True Stories
March 23, 2023 By Lee Martin, faculty, fiction and creative nonfiction Whenever I asked for something as a child, my father often...
FOXES
March 9, 2023 By Karen McElmurray, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty Having a string of days of, well, serious doubt. Doubt about...
Life of a Writer: March 2023
EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF STUDENTS Judy Harju Galliher’s...
A Pep Talk: Books as Permission Slips
February 23, 2023 by Maggie Smith I recently launched a Substack newsletter called For Dear Life. “For Dear Life” means two things to me....
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