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"Of Love" by Raluca Comanelea | Digging Press
"Of Love" by Raluca Comanelea | Digging Press
A boy watches his father kill a rooster and is initiated into the harsh silences that pass for love.
Announcing Naslund-Mann’s New Associate Programs Director, Whitney Collins
Announcing Naslund-Mann’s New Associate Programs Director, Whitney Collins
June 3, 2026 by Kathleen Driskell, Chair On behalf of our Naslund-Mann leadership team, faculty, students, and alumni, I am delighted to announce that on July 1, 2026, Whitney Collins will assume new duties as the Associate Programs Director for the School of Writing. Whitney will take over the duties of advisor to all Naslund-Mann graduate students and will serve as direct supervisor to all faculty members in the School of Writing, as well as continuing in her current role as a member of the fi
Spring 2026 Issue | Good River Review
Spring 2026 Issue | Good River Review
The Spring 2026 issue of Good River Review, the online literary journal of the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University.
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We're hiring! Tenure-Track Assistant Professor & Associate Programs Director
We're hiring! Tenure-Track Assistant Professor & Associate Programs Director
Good River Review | Faculty Blog
Good River Review | Faculty Blog
Life of a Writer: January 2026
Life of a Writer: January 2026
Spalding University's Naslund-Mann School of Writing
Spalding University's Naslund-Mann School of Writing
MFA in Writing
MFA in Writing
MA in Writing - Like our MFA, but leaner
MA in Writing - Like our MFA, but leaner
Graduate Certificate in Writing
Graduate Certificate in Writing
Post-Masters Certificate in Writing Enrichment
Post-Masters Certificate in Writing Enrichment
Residency | Spalding University
Residency | Spalding University
Carmichael's Bookstore - NMS Official Residency Bookstore
Carmichael's Bookstore - NMS Official Residency Bookstore
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How to Choose an MFA Program
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Kentucky Book Festival
Kentucky Book Festival
Kentucky Book Festival 2025 Thank you to our poets, readers, volunteers, sponsors, and everyone who showed up to make this year’s festival unforgettable. Your support, creativity, and presence brought these moments to life. We’re so grateful to celebrate poetry and community with you. Kentucky Book Festival 2026 Saturday, November 7, 2026 Coming Soon Great Reads […]
Louisville Book Festival
Louisville Book Festival
Poisoned Pen Bookstore Calendar
Poisoned Pen Bookstore Calendar
StageOne Family Theatre 2025-26 Season
StageOne Family Theatre 2025-26 Season
News
Announcing New Naslund-Mann Faculty Mentors for Spring 2026
Announcing New Naslund-Mann Faculty Mentors for Spring 2026
by Kathleen Driskell, Chair I’m very pleased on behalf of our Naslund-Mann leadership team and faculty to announce three new mentors are joining our faculty and will be available to work with mentees during the Spring 2026 independent study. Look for their faculty videos, teaching philosophies, and spalding.edu email addresses in Canvas. Please join us in welcoming writers and teachers Willie Davis, Jennie Malboeuf, and Danni Quintos to our writing community! Willie Davis, FictionWillie Davis i
Lots of Good Things to Come: Highlights of Spring 2026 Naslund-Mann Residency on Campus
Lots of Good Things to Come: Highlights of Spring 2026 Naslund-Mann Residency on Campus
by Kathleen Driskell, Chair: Louisville is finally thawing after a rough winter, by our Kentucky standards anyway, and we’re beginning to see dogwood trees and azaleas budding around campus. We’ve long been planning a wonderfully enriching residency for spring students who will be participating on Spalding’s campus, but the warm weather always has a way of kicking us into high gear. From May 23-30, we look forward to having students, faculty, and alumni back on campus for seven days
Announcing our Distinguished Visiting Writer!
Announcing our Distinguished Visiting Writer!
NewPages Blog | Spalding University
NewPages Blog | Spalding University
NMS Welcomes Spalding’s BFA and BA in Writing Programs
NMS Welcomes Spalding’s BFA and BA in Writing Programs
Spalding adds a new virtual residency option for students
Spalding adds a new virtual residency option for students
Great News for NMS! Carmichael's is Our New Residency Bookstore!
Great News for NMS! Carmichael's is Our New Residency Bookstore!
Faculty & Alum Celebrations
"I Had a Neighbor Whose Husband Constantly Shouted" by Neela Vaswani | Electric Literature
"I Had a Neighbor Whose Husband Constantly Shouted" by Neela Vaswani | Electric Literature
She moved through her days as though he was background in her story
Common Name: a reading with Laura Candler, 2026 Chapbook Contest Winner — The Poets Corner
Common Name: a reading with Laura Candler, 2026 Chapbook Contest Winner — The Poets Corner
Join us for a reading and a conversation with the 2026 Chapbook Competition winner Laura Candler, hosted by our contest judge, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil. “Common Name: These poems keep turning toward the world—toward the child’s voice, the river’s body, the small, bright pop of a flo
Author Interview with Emily Persichetti Schuster | Elderfly Press
Author Interview with Emily Persichetti Schuster | Elderfly Press
Michael Fitzer on MFA Writers Podcasts
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Michael Fitzer on MFA Writers Podcasts
Jennine "Doc"Krueger - 2026 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellow in Musical Theater
Jennine "Doc"Krueger - 2026 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellow in Musical Theater
CHEST CANDY by Robert X. Golphin streaming on YouTube
CHEST CANDY by Robert X. Golphin streaming on YouTube
2025 Student Writing Contest Winners! | Deep Wild Journal
2025 Student Writing Contest Winners! | Deep Wild Journal
Colleen Alles' CLOSE TO A FLAME on LitHub's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
Colleen Alles' CLOSE TO A FLAME on LitHub's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
Amanda Burr's SONS OF DETROIT at DOC NYC
Amanda Burr's SONS OF DETROIT at DOC NYC
"Did Something Happen?! The Power of Poetry in Telling My Son's Story" by Lynnell Edwards | Mad in America
"Did Something Happen?! The Power of Poetry in Telling My Son's Story" by Lynnell Edwards | Mad in America
The Ghosts of Black Appalachia Visit Her Kitchen
The Ghosts of Black Appalachia Visit Her Kitchen
Best Picture Books of 2024: Lesléa Newman | Kirkus Reviews
Best Picture Books of 2024: Lesléa Newman | Kirkus Reviews
Frank X Walker, Winner of the 2023 Black Authors Matter Children’s Book Awards | The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Frank X Walker, Winner of the 2023 Black Authors Matter Children’s Book Awards | The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Amy Foos Kapoor, Author
Amy Foos Kapoor, Author
Former Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson chats with Michelle Miller on CBS Saturday Morning
Former Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson chats with Michelle Miller on CBS Saturday Morning
Announcing the 2024 Prize-Winning Content Forthcoming in the North Carolina Literary Review
Announcing the 2024 Prize-Winning Content Forthcoming in the North Carolina Literary Review
Door Is A Jar Virtual Reading - March 24, 2024 - Recording
Door Is A Jar Virtual Reading - March 24, 2024 - Recording
Announcing the CRAFT 2024 Novelette Print Prize Winners
Announcing the CRAFT 2024 Novelette Print Prize Winners
One-on-one with banned book author Lesléa Newman
One-on-one with banned book author Lesléa Newman
How Silas House turned crushing grief into a lauded novel
How Silas House turned crushing grief into a lauded novel
Poet Maggie Smith talks going viral and being confused with that OTHER Maggie Smith | NPR Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Poet Maggie Smith talks going viral and being confused with that OTHER Maggie Smith | NPR Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Holly Gleason Wins LA Press Club's Entertainment Journalist of the Year Award | Pollstar
Holly Gleason Wins LA Press Club's Entertainment Journalist of the Year Award | Pollstar
R.L. Burkhead, MFA
R.L. Burkhead, MFA
Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" | Salon
Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" | Salon
A conversation with Silas House, Kentucky’s new poet laureate | Kentucky Lantern
A conversation with Silas House, Kentucky’s new poet laureate | Kentucky Lantern
Faculty & Alum Publications
Beautiful and Terrifying: Tales and Visions from the Edge of the Uncanny
Beautiful and Terrifying: Tales and Visions from the Edge of the Uncanny
Beautiful and Terrifying: Tales and Visions from the Edge of the Uncanny - Kindle edition by Webster, Amanda, Mathews, J., Yockey, Kylie, Gaxiola, Alma, Persichetti Schuster, Emily, Holt, Laura, Zelden, Tristan, Niccum, Jon , Weisenberger, Emily, Webster, Mandy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Beautiful and Terrifying: Tales and Visions from the Edge of the Uncanny.
QUEEN BESS by Amina McIntyre | Presented by Théâtre du Rêve at 7 Stages Theater Atlanta
QUEEN BESS by Amina McIntyre | Presented by Théâtre du Rêve at 7 Stages Theater Atlanta
A Zoom of Our Own by Colleen Alles | AWP Creative Writing Currently
A Zoom of Our Own by Colleen Alles | AWP Creative Writing Currently
THE LIGHT BECOMES US by Colleen S. Harris
THE LIGHT BECOMES US by Colleen S. Harris
A SHARD PULLED JUST BARELY by Anne Bucey - Finishing Line Press
A SHARD PULLED JUST BARELY by Anne Bucey - Finishing Line Press
OF LOVE AND WATER by Elizabeth Burton - Appalachia Book Co
OF LOVE AND WATER by Elizabeth Burton - Appalachia Book Co
GAMES FOR CHILDREN by Keith S. Wilson
GAMES FOR CHILDREN by Keith S. Wilson
Katerina Stoykova, Frank X Walker, upfromsumdirt, and Greg Pape | Carmichael's Bookstore
Katerina Stoykova, Frank X Walker, upfromsumdirt, and Greg Pape | Carmichael's Bookstore
ASH PSALMS By Colleen S. Harris | The Brussels Review
ASH PSALMS By Colleen S. Harris | The Brussels Review
MAPPING THE BORDERLANDS by Barbara Sabol
MAPPING THE BORDERLANDS by Barbara Sabol
"The Note" by Annie Howard | Mad in America
"The Note" by Annie Howard | Mad in America
"Cantilever” by Terry Price | Bloom Creative Writing
"Cantilever” by Terry Price | Bloom Creative Writing
FIRES BURNING UNDERGROUND by Nancy McCabe
FIRES BURNING UNDERGROUND by Nancy McCabe
Three Poems by Mervyn Seivwright | Across The Margin
Three Poems by Mervyn Seivwright | Across The Margin
"A Review of Lauren Kate’s WHAT'S IN A KISS" by Mary Sophie Filicetti | Black Fox Literary Magazine
"A Review of Lauren Kate’s WHAT'S IN A KISS" by Mary Sophie Filicetti | Black Fox Literary Magazine
"I’m Sorry I’m White and You’re Brown" by Judy Galliher | The Manifest Station
"I’m Sorry I’m White and You’re Brown" by Judy Galliher | The Manifest Station
"Unfinished Foxes" by Lindsey Pharr, 2023 Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest Finalist | Southeast Review
"Unfinished Foxes" by Lindsey Pharr, 2023 Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest Finalist | Southeast Review
"My Wife's Lovers" by Lesléa Newman | The Ekphrastic Review
"My Wife's Lovers" by Lesléa Newman | The Ekphrastic Review
"I Was Called for Jury Service—I Sided With the Defendant" by Nancy McCabe
"I Was Called for Jury Service—I Sided With the Defendant" by Nancy McCabe
CONTAINS RECYCLED PARTS by Aimee Mackovic
CONTAINS RECYCLED PARTS by Aimee Mackovic
"You cannot convince someone to be with you: How to survive—and thrive—in 'The Heartbreak Years'" by Erin Keane
"You cannot convince someone to be with you: How to survive—and thrive—in 'The Heartbreak Years'" by Erin Keane
STICK, HOOK, AND A PILE OF YARN by Mervyn Seivwright | Broken Sleep Books
STICK, HOOK, AND A PILE OF YARN by Mervyn Seivwright | Broken Sleep Books
"Becoming a mother at 50, after a lifetime of saying I didn’t want kids" by Amy Speace
"Becoming a mother at 50, after a lifetime of saying I didn’t want kids" by Amy Speace
"Sonnet for Margot with Three Vulvas, Two Penises, and a Merry-Go-Round" by Laura Candler | Variant Literature
"Sonnet for Margot with Three Vulvas, Two Penises, and a Merry-Go-Round" by Laura Candler | Variant Literature
STRANGE UNEARTHLY THINGS by Kelly Creagh | Penguin Random House
STRANGE UNEARTHLY THINGS by Kelly Creagh | Penguin Random House
"Reformation Abroad" | Stove Leg Media
"Reformation Abroad" | Stove Leg Media
"Lament" by Lesléa Newman | Writing in a Woman's Voice
"Lament" by Lesléa Newman | Writing in a Woman's Voice
PREORDER Vaulting Through Time by Nancy McCabe
PREORDER Vaulting Through Time by Nancy McCabe
MOTHERS OF THE MISSING MERMAID by Brandi Bradley
MOTHERS OF THE MISSING MERMAID by Brandi Bradley
"Jason Isbell Is Finding His Purpose" | Time
"Jason Isbell Is Finding His Purpose" | Time
"Grasping at Grace" by Quincy Gray McMichael | Appalachian Review
"Grasping at Grace" by Quincy Gray McMichael | Appalachian Review
"Naked" by Karen George | Valparaiso Fiction Review
"Naked" by Karen George | Valparaiso Fiction Review
THE TRAIN HOUSE ON LOBENGULA STREET by Fatima Kara
THE TRAIN HOUSE ON LOBENGULA STREET by Fatima Kara
Ray Zylinski by Rob Kaiser | Traffic East
Ray Zylinski by Rob Kaiser | Traffic East
Resources for Writers
Oxford Centre for Fantasy - A Centre for the Next Generation of Fantasy Creatives
Oxford Centre for Fantasy - A Centre for the Next Generation of Fantasy Creatives
Project Northmoor - creating the first literary centre dedicated to Tolkien
Rocky Mountain Reader
Rocky Mountain Reader
Welcome to Rocky Mountain Reader! We’re here because we value books and authors and the freedom to exchange ideas and explore new worlds through reading. We’re here to highlight the vast and varied landscape of literary arts in our home state of Colorado.
Kentucky Writer's Notebook: A Podcast Hosted by Kathleen Driskell
Kentucky Writer's Notebook: A Podcast Hosted by Kathleen Driskell
Writing Lessons: A Monthly Podcast with Silas House
Writing Lessons: A Monthly Podcast with Silas House
How Can I Make My Writing Better? Interview with Katrina Kittle, Author of MORNING IN THIS BROKEN WORLD | AuthorLink
How Can I Make My Writing Better? Interview with Katrina Kittle, Author of MORNING IN THIS BROKEN WORLD | AuthorLink
"What Really Matters: On The Value of Writing Groups" by Judy Harju Galliher | Write or Die Magazine
"What Really Matters: On The Value of Writing Groups" by Judy Harju Galliher | Write or Die Magazine
Grants & Awards
Appalachia Funders Network
Appalachia Funders Network
The Appalachia Funders Network creates catalytic opportunities for funders to collaborate, connect, and drive progress across the Appalachian region.
Fine Arts Work Center - The Fellowship
Fine Arts Work Center - The Fellowship
Since its creation nearly 60 years ago, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship has become one of the leading residency programs in the world. Each
Fine Arts Work Center - Summer Workshops
Fine Arts Work Center - Summer Workshops
FSG Fellowship
FSG Fellowship
Kentucky Visions Short Story Contest | Bluegrass Writers Coalition
Kentucky Visions Short Story Contest | Bluegrass Writers Coalition
Literary Magazines
Appalachia Book Company
Appalachia Book Company
Discover authentic Appalachian stories through books, podcasts, and community projects that celebrate regional culture and storytelling traditions.
Arkana Magazine
Arkana Magazine
Avalon Literary Review
Avalon Literary Review
December Magazine
December Magazine
Elderfly Press
Elderfly Press
Four Way Books
Four Way Books
Fractured Lit
Fractured Lit
Frontier Poetry
Frontier Poetry
Glassworks Magazine
Glassworks Magazine
The Masters Review
The Masters Review
Missouri Review
Missouri Review
Pacifica Literary Review
Pacifica Literary Review
Peatsmoke Journal
Peatsmoke Journal
PLEASE SEE ME
PLEASE SEE ME
Punk Eek (Punctuated Equilibrium)
Punk Eek (Punctuated Equilibrium)
Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Innovative Writing from Ohio University
Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Innovative Writing from Ohio University
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative
River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative
Sarabande Books
Sarabande Books
Still: The Journal
Still: The Journal
Sweet: A Literary Confection
Sweet: A Literary Confection
The Writer's Chronicle | AWP
The Writer's Chronicle | AWP
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