The 2010 application process will begin in early January, when the web site will be updated with new information and applications. In the meantime, please see some of the 2010 details noted below.
2010 Dates:
Wednesday, August 11 to Saturday, August 21
2010 Faculty:
Poetry--Marianne Boruch, Linda Gregerson, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Phillips, Alberto Ríos, and David Rivard
Fiction--Andrea Barrett, Lan Samantha Chang, Stacey D’Erasmo, Percival Everett, Aleksandar Hemon, Amy Hempel, Margot Livesey, Kevin McIlvoy, Jim Shepard, and Helena María Viramontes
Nonfiction--Tom Bissell, Jane Brox, and Rebecca Solnit
Special guests will include poet Stanley Plumly and fiction writer Elizabeth Strout.
2010 Application Deadlines:
Conference Fellowship, March 1
Financial Aid Contributor, March 1
General Contributor, March 19
Click here for a PDF version of the 2009 Conference brochure.
The same information is available on the Conference web pages.
"Telling American Stories"
Click this link to watch a 27-minute video about the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. (Video created by Stephen Fisher Productions)
Created in 2000 to celebrate the Conference's 75th anniversary, the video highlights the history of the Conference and includes interviews with Director Michael Collier, Bread Loaf Historian David Haward Bain, and the following Bread Loaf faculty and guests: Julia Alvarez, Patricia Hampl, Edward Hirsch, Garrett Hongo, Randall Kenan, Yusef Komunyakaa, Barry Lopez, Paul Mariani, Antonya Nelson, Jay Parini, and Ellen Bryant Voigt.
A note from the director:
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is one of America's most valuable literary institutions. For the past 84 years, the workshops, lectures, and classes, held in the shadow of the Green Mountains, have introduced generations of participants to rigorous practical and theoretical approaches to the craft of writing, and given America itself proven models of literary instruction. Bread Loaf is not a retreat—not a place to work in solitude. Instead it provides a stimulating community of diverse voices in which we test our own assumptions regarding literature and seek advice about our progress as writers. In August we will again welcome more than two hundred talented writers to the historic Bread Loaf Inn, along with our distinguished faculty, and many agents and editors from major publishing houses and literary firms.
Come prepared to join fully in the busy schedule and to enjoy the beauty of the wilderness setting. No one who has done so has failed to be inspired, encouraged, or changed by Bread Loaf.
Michael Collier
Director