Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences

Newly Discovered Frost Poem

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-05T12:11:38-0500

“Nothing New,” which Robert Frost wrote in 1918, has been published for the first time in The New Yorker.

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.

How to Tell Green Stories

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-11-02T15:25:17-0400

Megan Mayhew-Bergman, assistant professor of English and director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, has cofounded a new storytelling agency to help groups fighting the climate crisis.

Funding for Climate Leaders

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-11-02T15:09:12-0400

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.

In Praise of Roadside Americana

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-04-19T11:17:44-0400

Megan Mayhew Bergman delights in driving past scrap metal dinosaurs, a giant gorilla holding a Volkswagen aloft, and other roadside attractions.

In the Face of Gentrification

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2022-08-17T15:40:17-0400

Former Bread Loaf Fellow Cleyvis Natera’s debut novel, Neruda on the Park, is a portrait of how gentrification impacts a Dominican family in New York City.

Award-Winning Translation

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2022-04-06T21:24:06-0400

Jennifer Grotz, director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, has won a PEN America Literary Award for poetry in translation.

Reading List for Black History Month

dmcgrathconwell@middlebury.edu — 2022-02-01T16:47:40-0500

In celebration of Black History Month, we’ve compiled a list of Black authors connected to Middlebury that we hope you’ll check out.

Poetry as Conversation

haquyenp@middlebury.edu — 2021-04-19T17:34:08-0400

Cheswayo Mphanza ’16 recently released a book of poetry, The Rinehart Frames, which won the African Poetry Book Foundation’s 2020 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.