EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF Students   Morrow Dowdle  (P) was nominated for Best of the Net 2025 by Sky Island Journal  for their poem “I No Longer Want to Be Heartsick.”   Gratton Hicks  (F) is coming down the stretch on his third book and first adult novel, Mere Images . . . . . . of Lucky . The novel has just crossed the eighty-thousand-word count. He has planned extensive editing and feedback for

October 9, 2025   by Lee Martin, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty I’m taken these days with the popularity of the lyric essay,...

October 2, 2022   by Kathleen Driskell, Chair On behalf of the faculty and staff of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing, I’m...

September 25, 2025 by Beth Ann Bauman, writing for children and young adult faculty   One of my favorite TV shows is the HBO crime drama...

In a move that aligns all of Spalding’s creative writing programs for the first time, the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Creative Writing...

September 11, 2025 by Nancy McCabe, creative nonfiction and fiction faculty   I’m working on a craft book, Creating Some Measure of...

Also, announcing faculty and guest books and scripts in common for Fall 2025—and our pre-lecture in W4TVSS and residency workshop...

August 27, 2025   by Lynnell Edwards, poetry faculty   As of this writing, I am a little past the halfway point in my reading for the...

Arianna Rebolini   Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die   HarperCollins / April 2025 / 352 pp / $30 Hardcover   Reviewed by Hope...

August 14, 2025 by Whitney Collins, fiction faculty   Back in the 1900s, when my friends and I were growing up relatively unplugged and...