Attention: Changes in Length of Workshop Submissions. Spalding MFA Home. Free registration slots are available on a first-come, first-served basis. To request a registration-waived slot, email Program Associate Katy Yocom at kyocom spalding. Students and faculty receiving these slots are automatically registered for the conference but must arrange and pay for their own housing and transportation.
To qualify for the early-bird price, students and faculty must register by October 31; registration at the full price is open until January 18, To request reimbursement, students and faculty email their registration receipt to Administrative Director Karen Mann at kmann spalding. Registration for the conference does not include hotel reservations. The Sheraton Boston is now accepting reservations for conference attendees.
Rooms are expected to sell out quickly, so those planning to attend are encouraged to book their rooms promptly. As always, the MFA Program and The Louisville Review sponsor a table at the bookfair, and students and alumni are invited to represent the program by staffing the table. To volunteer for a minute shift, contact Katy Yocom. The MFA Program plans to host an evening reception during the conference to provide an opportunity for students, alumni, and faculty to connect and for those interested in the program to learn more.
Details will be announced in a future newsletter. The fall residency cross-genre focus also includes two panels of faculty members addressing aspects of dramatic writing.
In the first, panel members discuss the ways in which specific plays or films have influenced their own work in dramatic writing, prose, or poetry. In the second, panelists examine the adaptation of prose into plays or film scripts. Molly Peacock lectures about her one-woman staged monologue in poems, The Shimmering Verge , which she performed in theatres throughout North America, including a showcase production at Urban Stages in New York City in February This is a change in the essay assignment, which was previously submitted to the mentor within a semester packet.
