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...
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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....
Pulitzer-winning play COST OF LIVING is the Spring 2023 Script in Common at Naslund-Mann
by Kathleen Driskell, Chair, Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing, Spalding University Also Announced: Faculty Books...
New book publications by Spalding MFA Faculty!
By Kathleen Driskell, Chair, Naslund-Mann Graduate School o f Writing Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing...
The Seductive and Enduring Myth of the Plot-driven Narrative
February 9, 2023 by John Pipkin, fiction faculty We’ve all heard the easy distinction frequently made: some stories are plot-driven and...
Of Funk, Fathers, Sons, and Second Books
January 26, 2023 By Douglas Manuel, poetry faculty When I was giving blood for rent, adjacent to flunking out of college, flipping...
Summer Residency: Quebec City
by Katy Yocom, associate director This year’s international summer residency takes us to Quebec City, where the language is French, the...
From Notebook to Public Square: The Pop-Up Covid Art Show
January 11, 2023 By Roy Hoffman, faculty, fiction and creative nonfiction Although I don’t consider myself a poet, over the years I’ve...
Call for Proposals: Writing for TV, Screen, and Stage Spalding MFA Alumni, for Spring 2023 Lecture
The Naslund-Mann School invites MFA alumni who graduated in playwriting or screenwriting to submit proposals for an hour-long craft...
Learning You: 5 Takeaways From My Writing Journey So Far
December 15, 2022 by Leah Henderson, faculty, writing for children and young adults Since 2017, when my first novel, One Shadow on the...
Coming Up in March: Spalding's Business of Writing Seminars
The Spring 2023 edition of Spalding's Business of Writing Seminars takes place Saturday, March 25, 2023, for students and alumni of the...
Heartwood
December 1, 2022 By Karen Salyer McElmurray, faculty, fiction and creative nonfiction Behind The Long House, which is what Granny called...
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
Updated January 4, 2023 By Marjetta Geerling, Spalding MFA Alumni Association Director Each year, as our alumni population grows, so do...
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...
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