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Irish Storytelling in 1970s New York

Edward Burns A Kid from Marlboro Road Seven Stories Press / August 2024 / 220 pp / $27.95 Reviewed by Lisa McCormack / December...

On Fearlessness: Writing Truth to Power in Troubling Times

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...

With Keats on Machu Picchu

November 14, 2024 by Roy Hoffman, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty How does reading impact our lives? What words frame our...

Three Encounters with Grace

October 31, 2024 by Robin Lippincott, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty In the very first post I wrote for this blog, way back...

Call for Proposals: Writing for Children and Young Adults Spalding MFA Alumni, for Spring 2025 Lecture

The Naslund-Mann School invites MFA alumni who graduated in writing for children and young adults to submit proposals for a...

Travel to Vietnam in 2025

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.

Bob Finch at Spalding: A Remembrance

October 24, 2024 by Richard Goodman, former creative nonfiction faculty There he was, beaten leather briefcase under his arm,...

Calling All Tortured Poets

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...

Good Things to Come: Highlights of the Fall 2024 Naslund-Mann Residency on Campus

by Kathleen Driskell, Chair I feel extraordinarily lucky that soon many of us will gather and be nurtured by our warm community of...

Life of a Writer: October 2024

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

Picture This: The Writer/Editor/Illustrator/Art Director Dance

by Lesléa Newman, writing for children and young adults faculty Congratulations! You’ve just sold your first picture book text. You are...

A few encouraging words for when writing is hard

September 19, 2024 by Beth Ann Bauman, faculty, writing for children and young adults A while back, I had a conversation with a...

A New Model for Developing and Producing Plays

September 12, 2024 By Charlie Schulman, faculty, writing for TV, screen, and stage New play development in the American theater has...

The Good Ghost of Rankin Hall

September 5, 2024 by Greg Pape, poetry faculty On the campus of the University of Montana, where I taught from 1987 to 2016, one of...

Life of a Writer: August 2024

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

Javier Zamora Wins 2024 Spalding Prize for the Promotion of Peace & Justice in Literature

August 16, 2024 by Kathleen Driskell, Chair, Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing, Spalding University Solito: A...

Making It New

August 8, 2024 by Dianne Aprile, creative nonfiction faculty “Don’t write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words...

The Transformative Work of the Literary Citizen

July 25, 2024 By Lynnell Edwards, poetry faculty, associate programs director As I draft this essay about the value and rewards of being...

Leave Your Heart in the Writing: A How-to

July 11, 2024 by Lee Martin, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty I begin with this famous quote from Robert Frost: “No tears in the...

GOOD RIVER REVIEW celebrates two Pushcart Prizes!

by Ellyn Lichvar, managing editor, Good River Review We here at Good River Review are over the moon to celebrate two Pushcart Prizes: one...

A Tale of Two Terms

June 27, 2024 By John Pipkin, fiction faculty There are no easy shortcuts to writing compelling narratives, but sometimes there are tidy...

How It Is About It: A Review of STANDING IN THE FOREST OF BEING ALIVE

Katie Farris Standing in the Forest of Being Alive Alice James Book / 2023 / 100 pp / $18.95 Reviewed by Laura Candler / June 2024 Film...

You got this! Tips for writing a picture book

June 13, 2024 By Lesléa Newman, faculty, writing for children and young adults Congratulations! You have already done all the research...

Life of a Writer: June 2024

EXCITING NEWS & UPDATES FROM SPALDING'S NASLUND-MANN SCHOOL OF WRITING STUDENTS, ALUMNI, FACULTY & STAFF STUDENTS Judy Harju Galliher, a...

Coming to Story

June 3, 2024 by Leah Henderson, writing for children and young adults faculty There are so many ways a writer can come to a story. You...

Tell It in Fact: The Allure of Creative Nonfiction

by Roy Hoffman, fiction and creative nonfiction faculty An earlier version of this essay was delivered as a lecture at the Chautauqua...

The Currents of Thousands of Years: A Review of ROWING TO BAIKAL: SIXTY DAYS ON MONGOLIA’S SELENGE RIVER

Peter W. Fong ROWING TO BAIKAL: Sixty Days on Mongolia’s Selenge River Latah Books / December 2023 / 330 pp / $19.95 Reviewed by Greg...

Virtual Homecoming, June 27-28

by Katy Yocom, Associate Director Virtual Homecoming is a gathering for alumni to spend time with Spalding friends old and new, wherever...

Call for Proposals: Creative Nonfiction Spalding MFA Alumni, for Fall 2024 Lecture

The Naslund-Mann School invites MFA alumni who graduated in creative nonfiction to submit proposals for an hour-long craft lecture in the...

One Word at a Time

April 18, 2024 by Angela Jackson-Brown, fiction faculty Writing is not easy. I get it. Completely. Every day I battle with my own...

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