Bread Loaf School of English

Century-Old Farm Stories

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-19T12:42:37-0500

After she was given two farmers’ early 20th-century diaries, Kathryn Youngdahl-Stauss, MA ’15, MLitt ’23, decided to make a film about the mother-son pair.

Haunted by History

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-12T14:26:25-0500

The novel Flashlight by Susan Choi has been long-listed for the 2025 Booker Prize.

Bread Loaf Undammed

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-11-12T12:58:02-0500

Nearly 90 years ago, Middlebury built a 25-foot-high dam over a creek in Ripton to help supply drinking water to the Bread Loaf campus.

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.