By Erin Keane I could swim before I could walk. On visits to my grandparents’ house in Virginia, Grandmother would carry me into her...

The Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing is delighted to welcome author and teacher Ellen Hagan to our faculty. Ellen...

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...

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...

Twenty years ago, Sena Jeter Naslund and Karen Mann founded Kentucky’s first Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Spalding...

by Robin Lippincott In Joan Didion’s latest book, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, a collection of previously published but uncollected...

by Elaine Neil Orr This essay originally appeared in Fiction Writers Review. Writers start with a blank page. Even if the writer has an...

by Jason Kyle Howard As a graduate student in a low-residency MFA program, I always anticipated and relished feedback from my mentors,...

by Larry Brenner There’s an episode of the Big Bang Theory where Sheldon, trying to solve a difficult physics question, takes a job at...

by Beth Ann Bauman If you write Young Adult (YA) fantasy, you may want to study Laini Taylor, an award-winning writer who knows how to...

EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF—ENJOY! STUDENTS Theresa Anne Carey’s (SW)...

by Good River Review staff The Kentucky Book Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary this year with a weeklong festival, November 1-6,...

Edited by Kathleen Driskell and Katy Yocom Welcome home. Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the nationally recognized Spalding...

by Chair Kathleen Driskell I can’t tell you how excited we are to convene our Fall 2021 School of Writing residency in person, November...

by Lesléa Newman "Writ­ing these poems kept me alive." That sen­tence was spo­ken decades ago by Paul Mon­ette about his book, Love...

Spalding’s School of Writing is delighted to announce that Angela Jackson-Brown has joined our graduate faculty in fiction and will begin...

by Synthia Williams I continue to espouse the need for good theatre scripts for middle and high school productions. I am a K-12 teacher...

Spalding’s School of Writing is delighted to announce that Felicia Rose Chavez has joined our graduate faculty in creative nonfiction.

by Lynnell Edwards I was recently in correspondence with one of our newest alums about where our poetry was taking us next and how. She...

by Kathleen Driskell, Chair of the School of Creative & Professional Writing at Spalding University I am pleased to announce that the...

EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF—ENJOY! STUDENTS Andra Laine Hunter (PW) is...

by Catherine “Cappy” Rush My nineteen-year-old self is sitting cross-legged on a black Masonite floor with a dozen or so classmates...

by Dianne Aprile My favorite French film star of the twentieth century, hands down, was Simone Signoret. She was a survivor, a fiercely...

by Jeremy Paden Exophony: the practice of writing poetry, stories, or essays in a language other than one’s mother tongue. In the second...

by Gabriel Jason Dean, Dramatic Writing Faculty Now in its fourteenth season, New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series presented...

by Greg Pape Long before vaccines and the science that produced them, epidemics were thought to be caused by harmful spirits and bad...

by Angela Jackson-Brown Most days, I enjoy being a writer. But there are days when I ask myself, “Why am I doing this again?” The days I...

EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF—ENJOY! STUDENTS Andra Laine Hunter’s (PW) MFA...

The School of Creative and Professional Writing is delighted to announce that novelist Wiley Cash has joined our fiction faculty. Wiley...

by Jeremy Paden, Poetry Translation Faculty