Heartwood
December 1, 2022 By Karen Salyer McElmurray, faculty, fiction and creative nonfiction Behind The Long House, which is what Granny called...
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The Interrelatedness of the Arts for Amateurs
November 21, 2022 By Nancy McCabe, faculty, fiction and creative nonfiction I gave up ballet when I was twelve because I was too tall. I...
A Stanza of Writers
November 10, 2022 by Kelly Cass Falzone (Poetry ’22) Last April, just one month ahead of my graduation from the Naslund-Mann Graduate...
Science Fiction as Metaphor: Unpacking QUANTUM LEAP
November 3, 2022 By Larry Brenner, faculty, writing for TV, screen, and stage I’m often struck by how the best science fiction is...
Life of a Writer: October 2022
October 27, 2022 EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF STUDENTS John...
In Praise of the Novella
October 20, 2022 by Beth Ann Bauman, writing for children and young adults faculty If you write Young Adult (YA) fantasy, you may want to...
A Nurturing Environment
October 6, 2022 by Robin Lippincott, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty Inspired by Greg Pape’s blog post on the Provincetown Fine...
Welcome back! Highlights of the Fall 2022 Residency at Spalding
October 3, 2022 by Kathleen Driskell, Chair On behalf of the faculty and staff of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing, I’m...
Amber Tamblyn in Conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Saturday, October 22
The Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing and its flagship low-residency MFA program are delighted to host...
Announcing the Fall 2022 Distinguished MFA Alumni Lecturer; Calling for Spring 2023 Proposals
By Kathleen Driskell, Chair, Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing, Spalding University Marjetta Geerling to present...
The Wonderlands of Charles Baxter
September 23, 2022 By K. L. Cook My conversion to the short story was in no small part a result of reading The Best American Short...
Write the Change You Want to See . . .
September 15, 2022 By Sam Zalutsky, screenwriting faculty I’m sure many of you have seen this quotation: “Be the change you want to see...
Never-ending Paris
September 1, 2022 By Lynnell Edwards, associate programs director "It was a pleasant café, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my...
2022 Winner of the Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace & Justice in Literature: Randy Ribay
The 2022 Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace and Justice in Literature has been awarded to Randy Ribay for his young adult novel...
Life of a Writer: August 2022
August 24, 2022 EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF STUDENTS Kelly...
All Things Alumni: The Many Benefits of the Spalding MFA Alumni Association
August 18, 2022 By Marjetta Geerling, Spalding MFA Alumni Association Director Each year, as our alumni population grows, so do our...
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...
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...