The 2009 session will take place from Wednesday, August 12, through Sunday, August 23.
This web site will be updated with new information in early January, and it will be possible to apply for the 2009 session at that time.
In 2008, the Conference took place from Wednesday, August 13, to Sunday, August 24.
Public Events Schedule 2008
Click here for a PDF version of the 2008 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 83 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