by Kathleen Driskell, Chair, Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing   In less than two months, Naslund-Mann students and alumni will...

July 24, 2025 By Greg Pape, poetry faculty   On the hottest day of the year, the poetry workshop of the Spalding MFA summer residency...

Martín Espada Jailbreak of Sparrows Alfred A. Knopf / 2025 / 114 pp / $29 Hardback Reviewed by James Long / June 2025   About a third of...

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

June 12, 2025 By Larry Brenner, faculty, writing for TV, screen, and stage   In our conversations on the Once Upon a Disney podcast, my...

May 22, 2025 By John Pipkin, fiction faculty   One concern that I often hear about delivering critiques in workshop (especially from...

May 8, 2025 by Leah Henderson, writing for children and young adults faculty   On any given day, I hear or read a new article, blog post,...

April 23, 2025   by Nancy McCabe, creative nonfiction and fiction faculty Over the last year or so, I launched two books: in March 2024...

April 10, 2025 by Dianne Aprile, creative nonfiction faculty   On a sunny day last month, I filled the tank of my dusty Subaru and hit...

Please join Naslund-Mann in welcoming three new faculty members. We are delighted each will be available to mentor students during the...

April 1, 2025 by Lynnell Edwards, poetry faculty and associate programs director     On the eve of the Kentucky Book Festival last...

March 13, 2025 by Lee Martin, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty   I was a shy boy who knew the discomfort that came from having...

The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing invites MFA alumni who graduated in writing for TV, screen and stage—or playwriting or...

Writing for Children and Young Adults is our cross-genre area. Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour is our residency book in common.    by...

February 27, 2025 By Lesléa Newman, faculty, writing for children and young adults Have you come down with a bad case of writer’s block?...

February 20, 2025 by Douglas Manuel, poetry faculty “[P]oetry may / not change the world but it might change you,” Evie Shockley writes...

Marisa Labozzetta Men Who Walk in Dreams Guernica World Editions / 2024 / 172 pp / $18.95 Paperback Reviewed by Julie Delegal / February...

EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF   Students   Amanda Byrne  (F)...

January 30, 2025   by Leah Henderson, faculty, writing for children and young adults   At the end of each year, I feel this need to get...

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...