The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is one of America's most valuable literary institutions.
For the past 88 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
August 14-24, 2013
Notification for the 2013 Conference:
All who applied for the 2013 session will receive a letter by e-mail in late May.
iTunes U
Many of the session's readings and lectures are available on iTunes U. We hope you enjoy listening!
The Crumb
Click here to read issues of the daily newsletter from the 2012 session.
Bread Loaf in Sicily
September 15-21, 2013
The Bread Loaf in Sicily page is now updated with the 2013 application and information. Click on the image above to get started.
BREAD LOAF NEWS
Veteran Bread Loaf Faculty in the pages of Harper's Magazine and the New Yorker
Read Ted Conover’s “The Way of All Flesh: Undercover in an Industrial Slaughterhouse” in the May issue of Harper’s Magazine. And look for poets Carl Phillips and Alan Shapiro in the April 15 issue of the New Yorker. The issue includes a review of Carl Phillips’s poetry in an article titled “End of the Line” and a poem written by Alan Shapiro titled “Reel to Reel.”
Bread Loafer Chosen as Inaugural Poet
We would like to congratulate Richard Blanco, Bread Loaf John Ciardi Fellow in Poetry in 2000, on being chosen as President Obama's 2013 inaugural poet.
To read more about the poet, see the New York Times article “Poet’s Kinship With the President.”
Photo credit: Craig Dilger
