Poster for the 2013 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

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by  Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

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tennis on the clay courts where Theodore Roethke John Copenhaver
played against Randall Jarrell while W. H. Auden discusses his work
looked on from a deep green Adirondack chair. with Thomas Mallon.
Bread Loaf continues its rich literary and intel-
lectual tradition by gathering a talented and diverse
faculty—among them MacArthur fellows and winners
of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize
to work closely with developing writers. We invite you
to experience the inspiration, the challenge, and the
fun of Bread Loaf. It’s a place to share manuscripts,
get advice from experienced writers, and meet agents,
editors, and the next generation of important writers.
You may apply to the Conference by submitting a
writing sample along with an application. There is
no application fee. You are also welcome to apply
Writing workshops in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction
as an auditor. All applications and supporting
are at the core of the curriculum. Each faculty
materials are accepted online, except for some
member conducts a small workshop, most often of ten financial aid applications which require a hard copy
contributors, meeting for five two-hour sessions over of supporting materials in addition to the online
Jane Hirshfield’s workshop the course of the Conference. All participants also application.
meet individually with their workshop leaders to We offer a variety of financial aid based on published
gathers for a photo
in front of the Barn. amplify and refine what was said in the workshop itself. work and/or literary promise.
Faculty offer lectures on writerly issues and Conference deadlines: All applications, including
one-hour classes on specific aspects of craft. Readings fellowship, financial aid, general contributor, and
by faculty and guests are scheduled in the Little Theatre auditor, must be submitted by March 1. Applicants
throughout the day and into the night. Guests in are strongly encouraged to apply early.
publishing—editors and literary agents—present Conference fees: $2,834 general contributors;
2,714 auditors. Includes room and board.
ounded in 1926, Bread Loaf information and answer questions. They also meet
Please visit our website or contact us for more
is the oldest writers’ with Bread Loafers individually or in small groups.
information:
conference in the country.
Noreen Cargill
Every session, we welcome new
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Bread Loafers in the Little Theatre
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753
where, in 1928, Stephen Vincent E-mail: [email protected]
Benét and Sinclair Lewis read from
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their work, and where, in 1945, Website: www.middleburv.edu/blwe
Richard Wright introduced Native
Son to a spellbound audience.
Faculty and students confer in front
U.S. Poet Laureate
of the huge fieldstone fireplace in Bread Loafers are housed on the mountain campus
Natasha Trethewey reads
the Barn where the young Eudora of Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont, in the
in the Little Theatre.
Welty bent over A Curtain of Green Bread Loaf Inn and its cluster of cottages and build-
with her mentor, Katherine Anne ings. Most rooms on campus are doubles and baths
Porter. One can hike trails where are shared. Meals are served in the dining room of the
Bread Loafers in the dining room on the day that faculty and fellows
Robert Frost habitually tramped, Inn. There’s a well-stocked salad bar, and vegetarian
serve lunch, a longstanding Conference tradition.
noting how birch trees “bend to options are available. A list of local rentals is available
left and right / Across the lines of to those who prefer off-campus housing and meals.
straighter darker trees,” or play
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