Grants and Writing Resources for Spalding University

Spalding's clinical psychology doctoral students have matched to internships at a rate of 97 to 100 percent every year since 2013-14, according to the Doctor of Psychology program, and every match since 2014-15 has been to an accredited site. The writing school's students place work in competitions too. In July 2026, Good River Review, the literary journal of Spalding's Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing, reported that a student's poem "Persistence of Time" took second place in Writers' Hour Magazine's 24-Hour Writing Contest.

Awards for Final Projects

Several of Spalding's graduate honors and awards are judged on a finished piece of work. The Eileen Egan, SCN, Graduate Student Award goes for a final project that joins scholarship with community service. Occupational therapy doctoral students can earn the Strickland Community Impact Award for a doctoral capstone project that brings lasting change to its agency and community. Social work has its own. MSW students whose Culminating Project applies research on social issues to policy-making are considered for the Jillian and Knowlton Johnson Scholarship Fund Award.

On the undergraduate awards list, the School of Liberal Studies Faculty Award in Interdisciplinary Excellence recognizes a Senior Capstone Project that integrates at least two disciplinary perspectives. Juniors and seniors majoring in interdisciplinary humanities or social sciences can also be considered for the Overseas Universities Scholarship Awards. The English-Speaking Union's Kentucky Branch gives these for summer study in Great Britain.

Scholarships and Assistantships

The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing publishes amounts for many of its scholarships. Alumni Select, Faculty Select, and Appalachian Writer awards each pay $2,000 to incoming students, and the Mann-Driskell Scholarship gives up to two awards of $500 a year to current female students writing long-form fiction. Writing students can also hold graduate assistantships, including student editor for the literary magazine, for tuition remission of about $600 to $1,800 a semester. Most can be done from home.

In the PsyD program, about 40 percent of students hold a graduate assistantship at some point in their training. Requests have been filled. In 2022-23 and 2023-24, every PsyD student who requested an assistantship received one. The program also holds three federal HRSA grants, one of them a $1.15 million grant that pays stipends to students in primary care practicums.

Where Student Work Is Published

Good River Review publishes two issues a year, with reviews and interviews posted between issues, and its editors work with School of Writing graduate students who serve in editorial roles. Student news gets its own heading. Its Life of a Writer news posts list student publications and contest results alongside alumni and faculty news.

Dissertations go to ProQuest. Authors submit them through the ProQuest Electronic Dissertation Submission service for Spalding University, following the library's step-by-step guide. Once the request goes to ProQuest, any further changes carry a ProQuest fee.

Writing Support

The Writing Center offers one-on-one sessions of 45 to 60 minutes for help planning and improving a piece of writing. Students meet a consultant on the second floor of the library or over Zoom. Appointments are booked through the student success portal.

When your draft is close and you want a careful last read, our editors are available. See our Spalding University dissertation and thesis editing and Spalding University essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.