The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

A Letter from the Director

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

Bread Loaf in Vermont
August 14-24, 2013

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The website is now updated with the 2013 application and information. To see the 2013 brochure, click on the image above. The same information can be found on these web pages; visit the Admissions Page to get started.
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

<p>photo by Rolf Yngve</p>
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

<p><em>Photo by Craig Dilger</em></p>
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