Vol. 8 No. 2
September 2005
Optional Arts Events: The Crucible
Open Mic/Practice Mic Sessions
Life of a Writer
Previous Newsletters
MFA
Program Welcomes Guest Lecturers
Lorna Littleway is founder/producing director of Juneteenth Legacy
Theatre, Kentucky's only professional African-American Theatre Company.
JLT, currently in its seventh season, is a development company for new
and original works about the African-American experience and its legacy,
and produces in both Louisville and New York City. For Juneteenth Legacy
Theatre, Lorna has written several works including Juneteenth Cotton
Club Revue, Billy, Lena and The Duke: A Night of Ellington Music!, Young
Sistas, and Bang! Bang! Bang!
Lorna is a 2002 Dramatist Guild Fellow and a recipient of the 2002 Sallie
Bingham Award from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She has received
new play development grants from the Drama League and the Stage Directors
Foundation and a playwright fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council
as well as grant support for playwriting from the Kentucky Foundation
for Women. Lorna is an Associate member of the Dramatist Guild and participates
in the Emerging Black Playwrights Workshop of ART/NY. She has an MA from
Goddard College.
Kathy Shorr's varied writing career includes stints as a travel
writer, newspaper columnist, radio producer, publicist, grant writer,
street fair poet, and fiction ghostwriter. She is the author of Provincetown:
Stories from Land's End (Commonwealth Editions), the book "that
best captures the heart of the town," according to one reviewer,
"a collection of stories, folklore, anecdotes and history all told
with wit, warmth and an acute power of observation." She is a frequent
contributor to publications including the Boston Globe travel section
and Body & Soul Magazine. Her awards include the Writers at
Work poetry fellowship, the Cosmos Press chapbook prize, and Society of
Professional Journalists' first prize for radio commentary. She has
an MFA in poetry from Vermont College. (top)
Danville, Kentucky, native Frank X Walker is the first poet to
graduate from Spalding's MFA program. He is the author of three collections
of poetry, Affrilachia, Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York, and
Black Box. He currently teaches in the English and Theatre department
at Eastern Kentucky University where he also serves as the interim director
of the African/African American Studies Program.
More guest lecturers are to be decribed in the next newsletter.
Paul Taylor Dance
Company
On Saturday, October 29, after dinner at the Brown Hotel, MFA faculty
and students walk next door to the Brown Theatre to attend a performance
of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
Laura Shapiro once wrote in Newsweek, "Short course in modern
dance: in the beginning there was Martha Graham, who changed the face
of an art form and discovered a new world. Then there was Merce Cunningham,
who stripped away the externals and showed us the heart of movement. And
then there was Paul Taylor, who let the sun shine in." The New
York Daily News declares him to be "the best choreographer in
the world."
Paul Taylor personally plans to attend the Louisville performance and
stage a world premier piece here as part of the company's 50th-anniversary
celebration. (top)
Interrelatedness
of the Arts Event at the Jazz Factory
On Friday, November 4, Spalding MFA students spend an afternoon with jazz
pianist, composer and arranger Steve Allee. Allee composed the music for
the film documentary New York in the Fifties, an adaptation of
Dan Wakefield's memoir of the same title. Allee's original musical
score evokes the heady days of small-group jazz after the bop revolution
had carved out its niche in the jazz world.
The Jazz Factory in downtown Louisville is the site of this interrelatedness
of the arts activity, which starts with a screening of New York in
the Fifties followed by a Q&A session with Allee. A live performance
featuring Allee and his Indy-based trio (Frank Smith on bass and Kenny
Phelps on drums) wrap up the event.
Steve Allee is musical director of The Bob & Tom Show, the
four-time Marconi award-winning radio program syndicated in 80 cities.
Steve has led bands at national and international venues including the
31st Annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, and The LaTeste
de Bush festival in LaTeste, France.
New York in the Fifties, a 60-minute documentary shot on location
in Greenwich Village in New York City and in Sundance, Utah, features
interviews with Indianapolis-born writer Dan Wakefield and his friends
and mentors from the 1950s, including William F. Buckley, Bruce Jay Friedman,
Helen Weaver, Mary Ann McCoy, Gay and Nan Talese, Ted Steeg, Robert Redford,
Sam Astrachan, Ivan Gold, Lynn Schwartz, Rev. Norm Eddy, Ed Fancher, Barney
Rosset and David Amran.
Because of seating limitations at the Jazz Factory, this event is for
current students only. Others may visit the Jazz Factory during the Gallery
Hop. (top)
Gallery
Hop and the Interrelatedness of the Arts
Friday afternoon's interrelatedness of the arts event begins at the Jazz
Factory and continues with a festive Louisville event, the Gallery Hop.
Though the Gallery Hop is an unstructured event, students are expected
to take part in the Hop as preparation for Saturday's Interrelatedness
of the Arts plenary session.
The Gallery Hop includes free trolley transportation along the community's
"Art Zone," a concentrated area of visual arts galleries. Trolleys run
from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. and travel along the Main Street, Market Street,
and Fourth Street corridors, including a stop directly in front of the
Jazz Factory and its building-mate, Glassworks. Participating galleries
offer artist openings and refreshments until 9 p.m. Students may choose
to dine at a local restaurant on the route. Locally owned favorites include
the Jazz Factory as well as East Market Street restaurants Mayan Gypsy,
Artemesia, Melillo's, and Kim's Asian Grille, among others. Fourth Street
Live!, also on the route, features a number of chain restaurants. For
a map of the route and a listing of galleries, visit http://www.trolleyhop.com/
(top)
Dining News
Last semester, for the first time, the MFA Program offered all catered
dinners rather than cafeteria-prepared evening meals. This semester, once
again, all Program dinners are prepared and served by professional catering
companies. In addition to Wiltshire Pantry, Juleps, and Bearno's
Pizza, each of which served meals last semester, the Program is pleased
to announce that our Welcome Dinner is provided by Jarfi's Catering.
Jarfi's features cuisine with an international flair, based on chef
Jeff Jarfi's Moroccan upbringing.
Two evening meals during residency are at the individual's expense.
Thursday night is once again unscheduled. Friday night, November 4, is
an evening on the town with the Gallery Hop (see article above).
For lunch, the Program adds caterer City Café, known locally for
its high-quality box lunches. For weekday lunches, as usual, students
choose to use vouchers either in the Spalding cafeteria or at several
nearby restaurants. The Program has increased the value of the vouchers
this semester from $5 to $6.
Actors Theatre Opportunity:
The Crucible
Actors Theatre of Louisville offers a 20 percent discount for all Spalding
MFA students and faculty who wish to attend the November 3 performance
of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. The performance takes place
on Thursday night, which is otherwise unscheduled. Actors Theatre is a
15-minute walk from the Brown Hotel, one block off the Fourth Street trolley
line. Trolleys run every 12 minutes; a ride costs 25 cents. Details are
forthcoming about purchasing tickets directly from Actors Theatre. (top)
MFA Students/Faculty/Alums
Discussion Board
The MFA Discussion Board is off to an energetic start. Currently, the
most active topic is Publishing Opportunities, which lists contests and
calls for submission, for example, a call for submissions from Alligator
Juniper, the national literary journal at Prescott College, where
Kenny Cook is fiction and creative nonfiction editor. Students and faculty
are welcome to post information in this area and others. See the MFA Discussion
Board at:
For easy access to the Discussion Board, students and faculty are encouraged
to bookmark the site. (top)
Open
Mic Student Reading Session; Practice Mic Session
To accommodate more students who wish to read but aren't able to sign
up for a reading slot, the Program is scheduling an Open Mic Session on
Sunday, October 30, in the ELC Lectorium. MFA-ers pick up a box lunch
and eat in the Lectorium, while students who wish to read may do so. (Please
see the MFA Student Handbook regarding student readings for time
limits and suggestions for how to prepare.)
On Thursday, November 4, the Program provides a practice session for students
who want more experience presenting their work to an audience. In The
Brown Hotel, a room is to be open for students to informally practice
reading behind a podium with a microphone. More information on this practice
session is forthcoming. (top)
New
MLA Session for Incoming Students
In the past, the MFA Program has presented a residency session on research
and the MLA Bibliography for ENG630 students to help them better prepare
for work on the Extended Critical Essay.
During the fall 2005 residency, the Program adds a new session for ENG610
and ENG620 students. Students attend an MLA orientation which covers the
basics of MLA style and formatting for all the critical writing to be
completed while in the Spalding MFA Program. The MFA Faculty requires
students to use MLA formatting not only in the ECE but also in all other
short critical papers written during ENG610 and ENG620 semesters. (top)
Lectures
and Sessions to Have New Designations
In response to student and faculty residency evaluations, the MFA Program
now designates sessions (other than genre-specific lectures) as "plenary
session," "general interest," or "multi-genre" in order to help clarify
content for students. Plenary sessions are required for all students (and
faculty, if indicated). "General interest" refers to sessions in the writing,
teaching, or arts areas that the Program finds of interest to all students
and faculty. "Multi-genre" refers to sessions that address issues of craft
in more than one genre. In order to be designated as "multi-genre," the
lecture must include examples from each of the genres addressed. (top)
Multi-Genre
Study for Playwriting and Writing for Children Students
Playwriting and Writing for Children students have the opportunity to
study playwriting for children at the fall residency. For their Faculty/Guest
Book in Common, these students read Eric Schmiedl's adaptation of Treasure
Island and the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Eric, whose credits include several script adaptations of children's classics,
lectures on "Cross Pollination: The Art of Adaptation for the Stage" and
also "Children's Theater: The Cinderella of American Drama."
In addition, on Friday, Nov. 4, the group is to attend a play at Louisville's
children theater, Stage One. The play, Spirit Shall Fly: A Kentucky
Tale, was commissioned for Stage One and written by Kentuckian Mary
Hall Surface. The play is recommended for grades 6-12. Before the presentation,
Spalding students have the opportunity to ask questions of a representative
of Stage One and to hear more about the production. For more information
about the play or Stage One, see http://www.stageone.org
(top)
Review
of Process for ECE Submission
Several semesters ago, the MFA Program changed the submission procedures
for the Extended Critical Essay. No later than the fifth packet, students
are to submit to their mentor an approved ECE with an envelope for the
mentor to send the ECE on to the MFA Office. When the ECE arrives at the
MFA Office, it is sent to an MLA Reviewer who approves the formatting.
If the formatting is not approved, the ECE is returned to the student
who must immediately make the required changes and forward the perfected
ECE back to the MFA Office. (top)
Life of a Writer
Students, faculty, and alumni: Please email writing news to mfanewsletter@spalding.edu
Deborah Begel is to attend the Prix Europa in Berlin in October.
Therese (Gwen) Broderick presented two poetry workshops for women at the vintage Wiawaka Holiday House (http://www.wiawaka.org) on Lake George in New York. (top)
Joan Donaldson is serving as a judge for the SCBWI-Michigan Mentorship Competition, which this year focuses on novels.
Lucrecia Guerrero's fiction writing is to be studied this fall in Professor Cesar Gonzalez's Chicano literature class at San Diego Mesa College. In October, the college tapes a video conference between Guerrero and Professor Gonzalez's class. The presentation is to be archived at University of California-Berkeley for preservation and scholarly purposes.
Mike Hampton's humor piece "7 Band Names That Would Be Impossible to Book" appeared on the list section of McSweeney's homepage.
In August, Lisa Izzi attended the 34th Annual SCBWI Summer Conference for children's writers and illustrators in Los Angeles. Spalding MFA Writing students Dierdre Gainor and Robin Heald also attended. Some of the featured speakers at the conference were award-winning authors Rosemary Wells, Christopher Paul Curtis, Graham Salisbury, and Sony Sones. For more information, go to www.scbwi.org (top)
Rosanne Osborne participated in the Sewanee Writers' Conference in July. She also wrote a successful grant proposal to the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities to partially fund a festival of the arts at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Alexandria in October, with novelist Clyde Edgerton is the featured speaker.
Terry Price has been added as a staff writer for The Tennessee Writer, a quarterly newsletter published by the Tennessee Writers Alliance and distributed to TWA members.
Julia Watts's novel Women's Studies has been
accepted for publication by the newly revived feminist press Spinsters
Ink. The novel is scheduled for release in fall 2006.
Dianne Aprile's essay, "Southern Summers: Why Some Like It Hot," appears in the current issue of New Southerner, the new online magazine whose publisher is Spalding alum Bobbi Buchanan. On September 20, Dianne reads "Keeping Records," a lyric essay, at a Bellarmine University music-literature seminar taught by Spalding alum/poet Erin Keane (May 2004). On September 7, Dianne hosts the Jazz Factory's Jazz & The Spoken Word music/reading series, including readings by Spalding student Beth Newberry and alum Frank X Walker (May 2003), plus former student Ruowei Strange. In August, she hosted Jazz & Spoken Word readings that featured Spalding student Gayle Hanratty and alums Katy Yocom (October 2003), Michele Ruby (May 2005) and Erin Keane (May 2004). On Monday, August 29, Dianne led a writing workshop for a group of breast cancer survivors at the Baptist East Hospital Cancer Resource Center. (top)
Rane Arroyo has two books forthcoming in August: poetry from BkMk Press, The Portable Famine, winner of the John Ciardi Prize, and a book of gay-themed short stories, How to Name a Hurricane, from the University of Arizona Press. He has new poems in Water-Stone, The Alembic, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Riverwind, and other journals. Two poems were also included in an anthology of gay literature, Bend Don't Shatter. A new online chapbook of experimental poetry, Don Quixote Goes to the Moon, has been scheduled for publication by Ahadada Press. University of Toledo's theater department did an elaborate staged reading of his one-act play, "Horatio: An Inquisition."
Susan Campbell Bartoletti's picture book, Nobody's Diggier than a Dog (Hyperion), debuted in January. Her latest nonfiction book, Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (Scholastic, April 2005) has earned six starred reviews and a Parents' Choice Gold Award and has been nominated to the ALA Best Books for Young Adults list. She has an article forthcoming in Book Links (September 2005). In the past six months, she has been a featured speaker at conferences in Indiana, South Carolina, Florida, California, New York, Delaware, and her home state of Pennsylvania. She is looking forward to speaking at the University of Iowa's Children's Literature Festival in September and the American Association of School Librarians in Pittsburgh in October.
Ellie Bryant participated in a writing marathon in New Orleans for five days in July. Spalding graduate Betsy Woods Atkinson (Octoer 2004) attended. The marathon, sponsored by Southeastern Louisiana University and the Southeast Louisiana Writing Project, involved dozens of educators who visited sites around the French Quarter to write. Her story "Blue Moon," inspired by the French Quarter, is to appear in an upcoming anthology published by SELU.
Richard Goodman presented his performance piece, "Bicycle Days," at the Vermont Studio Center this August. His essay on the artist and book maker James Castle appears in the September/October issue of Fine Books & Collections. He is now the magazine's regular book arts columnist. (top)
Roy Hoffman's feature story about the Louisville Slugger Museum and its long-time bat makers appeared in the Mobile Register on June 12 and the New Orleans Times-Picayune on July 31. His profile of 95-year-old Greek immigrant Bessie Papas, who arrived in Alabama in 1920 and is the last living member of the original Greek colony of Malbis, was a Sunday cover story in the Mobile Register on July 31. On August 7, a feature essay by journalist Chris Waddle about the link between Roy's novels and nonfiction pieces was in the Anniston Star, of Anniston, Ala.: "Literary Journalist: A Roy Hoffman Reader." See Roy's recent op/ed piece in the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/opinion/02hoffman.1.html
Silas House (October 2003) recently took a position as writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tenn. He is to teach one writing class and direct a literary festival that is still in the planning phases. He recently completed his play, The Hurting Part, which was commissioned by the University of Kentucky and is to premiere December 1. His feature on music sensation Nickel Creek is to be the cover story in the September/October issue of No Depression magazine. He is the cover subject of the current issue of Nougat magazine. He has recently been anthologized in Of Waters and Wood, a collection of nature writing and A Kentucky Reader, which celebrates more than 100 years of the Kentucky literary tradition. His March 2001 cover story on singer Lucinda Williams has been chosen for inclusion in The Best of No Depression. His novel The Coal Tattoo received the Appalachian Book of the Year Award and has been chosen as a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize and the SEBA Book of the Year, as well as being nominated for a Quill Award. (top)
Joyce McDonald was the featured speaker this July at the first "Pass the Book" event for the Cuyahoga County Public Library system in Cleveland, Ohio. Teens from all over Cuyahoga County voted for their choice among six titles during the 2004 election season. Swallowing Stones was the book selected to launch the annual program. McDonald's latest novel, Devil on My Heels, has been selected as a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age and a Children's Book Committee Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year (starred). Devil on My Heels was also recently named to the 2006-2007 Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award Master Reading List.
Sena Jeter Naslund's dramatic version, co-authored with Elaine Hughes, of Four Spirits is to be given a staged reading at the BRAND: NEW Festival of New Work of Hartford Stage, Conn.; tickets are available for noon, Saturday, September 17, on the Main Stage. Sena discussed Four Spirits, the novel, selected as the book in common for all freshman at Birmingham-Southern College, on August 29, and for Centre College, Danville, Ky., September 2. She speaks at Western Kentucky University on September 6, at the New London, Conn., book fair September 18, and at Binghampton State University September 23. Sena spent June at Versailles researching her new novel on Marie Antoinette, where she had lunch with K. Shaver and dinner in Paris with Nana Lampton (May 2004).
Elaine Orr read from Gods of Noonday (now available in paper) at Krane Gallery Bar in New York City with fellow Spalding faculty member Richard Goodman in attendance. Her short story, "The Hair Cut," won third place in the Elizabeth Simpson Smith Short Story Contest and is forthcoming in the November issue of Main Street Rag. She also will be the featured author and speaker at the Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College in Rome, Ga., in September.
Greg Pape has been awarded a sabbatical from the University of Montana to complete a new book of poems and start a nonfiction book. He is looking for readings and/or residencies in the Midwest and South in order to help fund research for the nonfiction book. He reads at the Montana Festival of the Book in September. Garrison Keilor read a poem from Pape's American Flamingo on the Writers' Almanac August 21. (top)
Molly Peacock's one-woman show, "The Shimmering Verge," produced by Femme Fatale Productions goes to Washington for a One-Night Only showcase performance Saturday, October 29, at 7 p.m. at The National Museum of Women in the Arts (phone number 1-800-222-7270), located at 1250 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC. The Off Off Broadway Run opens Friday, February 24, at The Blue Heron Theatre located at 123 E 24th St, New York, NY. The phone number of the theater is 212-979-5000.
Katy Yocom (October 2003) read from her new novel in early August at the Jazz Factory's "Jazz and the Spoken Word" event. She shared the stage with Spalding alums Erin Keane (May 2004) and Michele Ruby (May 2005) and current student Gayle Hanratty, among other readers.
Sam Zalutsky's short film SuperStore is to be presented at MECAL, the Barcelona International Film Festival, which runs September 10-18. It is to screen in the Obliqua Section, which they say has "the most innovative and risky short films." (top)
Cynthia Rausch Allar's (May 2004) ECE, "'A Snake Lies Hid': Aphra Behn's Poetry and the War Between the Sexes," has been accepted for publication by St. Louis University's Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature and appears in Volume 25. She also attended the June poetry workshop developed by Anne Marie Fowler (May 2004), which was held in Yellow Springs, Ohio. (top)
Bobbi Buchanan's (October 2004) essay "French Toast
and Freedom" has been accepted by Literary Mama (www.literarymama.com),
a literary e-zine "for the maternally inclined." The second
issue of Bobbi's e-zine, New Southerner (www.newsoutherner.com),
was released August 16. Her essay "Cake and Crumbs of Sustenance"
appears in the next issue of Arable: A Literary Journal.
Troy Ehlers (October 2004) has taken an internship position at
Milkweed Editions (publisher of last year's Ordinary Wolves by
Seth Kantner). His duties range from editorial to marketing. In July,
he attended a writers' conference at St. Anselm's College in
New Hampshire and gave an hour-long lecture on the writing process.
Sandra Evans Falconer's (May 2005) poem "Blue Bike" is to appear in the November issue of the magazine Coping with Cancer. Sandra reads poems at The Race for the Cure, sponsored by The Susan G. Komen Foundation on October 1 in Baltimore. Another of Sandra's poems, "'Jadda," from her poetry manuscript The Lucky Spot Dance, was recently published in the newsletter of Groton Long Point, a beach resort community in southeastern Connecticut.(top)
Edie Hemingway's (May 2004) short story "The Seal of Marsh Cove" was accepted for publication by Blooming Tree Press to appear in their middle grade Summer Shorts Anthology next spring. She presented a session titled "Bringing History Alive: Collaborating on Historical Fiction for Young People" at A Celebration of Children's Literature held at Montgomery College (Md.) in April. She spoke in West Chester, Penn., at the dedication ceremony for a grave stone in honor of Charley King, the young Civil War drummer boy in her co-authored book, Broken Drum. This ceremony was the culmination of an Eagle Scout project triggered by a group of Boy Scouts who read Broken Drum. In addition, Edie taught a three-day intensive workshop called "Writing from the Heart." She and Teresa Crumpton (October 2003) collaborated on teaching a 5-day workshop for children ages 10-14. Both classes were held at Carroll Community College, Westminster, Md., in July.
Zola Noble (May 2005) attended The Literary Nonfiction Writer's Conference of the Southwest, sponsored by the Mayborn Institute of Journalism, University of North Texas. A chapter from her manuscript "Rattling Old Bones" was among twenty selected for a manuscript workshop at the conference.
Linda Parker's (October 2003) novel in progress, The Fifth Season, has been named a finalist for the 2005 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, sponsored by the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society.
Karen Patterson (May 2004) was accepted to the PhD program at Union Institute and University, an affiliate of Vermont College, in the interdisciplinary arts and sciences department. Her specialty is in the challenges of adult learners especially in developing a proficiency in writing. She is also a member of the adjunct faculty of Ohio University, the University of Phoenix, and Southern State Community College teaching developmental English, creative and nonfiction writing, and literature. (top)
Diana M. Raab (October 2003) wrote an article called "Down Memory Lane: P.S. 1973's Class of '66 to Reconvene," for the August issue of The Queens Tribune.
Dawn Shamp (May 2005) was recently awarded a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center for a month-long residency in January 2006.
Pamela Steele (May 2004) received an honorable mention for her poem "The Disappeared" in the louderARTS "Awake at the Wheel" poetry competition. Her poem "The Fire Bringers" won second place for the James Still Award for Poetry.
Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen (May 2003) is to be a faculty member of the 2006 Whidbey Island Writers' Conference. She is to lead a pre-conference all-day workshop on writing picture books, as well as teach a conference session and participate in a panel and a fireside chat. The conference offers a number of scholarships to graduate students. For more information, visit the website: www.writeonwhidbey.org (top)
Aimee Zaring's (May 2005) essay "Fame, Fortune and Other
Impractical Gauges of 'Greatness' in American Pop Culture"
was published in the August/September issue of New Southerner,
available online at http://www.newsoutherner.com.
Stephanie Horton's new email address is shortonlib@gmail.com
Joyce McDonald's new address is 4308 Cheryl Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18017
Cynthia Allar's new address is 110 S. El Nido Avenue #24, Pasadena, CA 91107. Email addresses remain the same.
Congratulations to Cynthia Rausch Allar and Frances Nicholson on their ceremony of holy union on August 27.
Our heartfelt sympathy to Verna Austen on the death of her mother, Frances Jannece, on June 26.
Congratulations to Teneice Delgado and her husband on the birth
of Joselyn Rene on August 16. (top)
Both students and faculty are invited to make suggestions to the FAC for exploration by the Associate Program Director and larger faculty. However, students and faculty should directly and immediately consult the Program Director about any issues concerning specific individuals' performance in the program. (top)
Financial Aid: The The MFA Program offers scholarships to students
entering their first semester in the program. Returning students who
desire financial assistance should apply for graduate assistantships.
Applications for scholarships and assistantships should be directed
to the MFA Office. Check the Tuition and Fees page on the MFA website
(http://www.spalding.edu/mfaforms)
for deadlines.
Federal student loans, which are handled through Spalding's financial
aid office and not through the MFA program, are available to all eligible
graduate students.
Students need to re-file the FAFSA for each new school year (the school
year is fall/spring). Students who received finanical aid for the May
2005 semester need to re-file for the October semester. (top)
For help with financial aid questions, call Vicki Montgomery at (800) 896-8941 ext. 2731 or (502) 585-9911, ext. 2731 or email vmontgomery@spalding.edu or call Kristan Adams at 896-8941 ext. 2359 or (502) 585-9911, ext. 2359 or email kadams@spalding.edu. Students may enter or update their FAFSA information online at www.fafsa.ed.gov (top)
Deferment Form. For students who receive notice their loans have gone into repayment while still enrolled in school. Fill out deferment form (click here) and fax to Jennifer Gohmann at 502-992-2424. Include the address and/or fax number of where the deferment form should go to in Section 7 (on the 2nd page). For multiple loans, fill out one deferment form per loan company. On the fax cover sheet, state that you are an MFA student. If you have questions, Jennifer's email is jgohmann@spalding.edu
MFA Scholarship Fund: Donations to the MFA in Writing Scholarship
Fund may be made "in honor of" or "in memory of" a friend or loved one
or organization. To make a donation, contact Theresa Raidy in the Advancement
Office. Email: traidy@spalding.edu.
Phone: (800) 896-8941, ext. 2601, or (502) 585-9911, ext. 2601.
Online information: MFA in Writing forms, deadlines, and other student and faculty information are available online at http://www.spalding.edu/mfaforms Newsletters are at http://www.spalding.edu/mfanewsletter For convenience, bookmark these two pages. Both web addresses are case sensitive. The MFA Office is happy to mail program forms or the newsletter, if requested. Email kyocom@spalding.edu. (top)
Life of a Writer is an important newsletter column that reports
on experiences around the writing life of our students, faculty, and
alums.
Email submissions to mfanewsletter@spalding.edu
Life of a Writer pieces should be written as a paragraph in third person. It is helpful for alums to include their graduation semester, such as Jake Doe (October 2003). Spell out month and state names. Include publishers, date of publication, and Website addresses, when appropriate.
Below is a list of some of the kinds of activities that might be included in the Life of a Writer column.
On Extended Wings archives: Previous issues of the newsletter are available from http://www.spalding.edu/university/ssh/mfa/newsletter/menu.htm
Sena Jeter Naslund, Program Director
Karen Mann, Administrative
Director
Kathleen Driskell,
Associate Program Director
Katy Yocom, Program
Associate
Liz Nethery,
The Louisville Review, editorial assistant, and office assistant
Email Life of a Writer information to Jamey Temple at mfanewsletter@spalding.edu