Bread Loaf School of English

Too Busy Blurbing Books

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-05T12:11:31-0500

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job.

Book of the Century

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2024-09-11T10:08:32-0400

The New York Times Book Review included The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04 on its list of the 100 greatest books of the 21st century.

New in Kids’ Lit

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2024-05-06T16:09:58-0400

Two alumni have written children’s books that address cultural differences and migration.

Prize Poetry

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2024-04-30T14:29:44-0400

Kellam Ayres, MA English ’07 has been awarded the 2023 Spacks Prize for her forthcoming full-length poetry collection, In the Cathedral of My Undoing.

Evolution of Literary Prizes

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2024-02-19T12:26:14-0500

McGill literature professor Xander Manshel ’09, MA English ’14 appeared on the podcast On the Media to share his research on the influence of literary prizes and how they’ve changed over the last 35 years.

Finding Beauty in an Aging Body

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-11-02T16:29:28-0400

Sara Allen MA English ’87 is exhibiting a series of photographs of her “naturally aging body with its creases, folds and rough textures, its bumps and lines and spots” at the Abington Art Center in Pennsylvania.

College Applicant Advice

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-10-19T15:57:59-0400

Sam Prouty, MA English ’09, executive director of Admissions, has plenty of application tips for students and their parents.

Summer Writings

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-09-06T10:28:48-0400

Enjoy the poetry and prose of this summer’s cohort at the Bread Loaf School of English. The theme for the summer 2023 edition of the Bread Loaf Journal is recovery and resilience.

A Writer’s Craft

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-06-21T13:36:49-0400

The latest podcast episode of Midd Moment features Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04, a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer.

Poetry as Medicine

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-05-11T13:35:52-0400

Former Bread Loaf faculty member Marjorie Ryerson has published her first book of poetry, The Views from Mount Hunger.