The Bread Loaf Conferences offer an exciting array of programs that are part of a tradition that has made Bread Loaf one of America's most valuable literary institutions. For the past 90 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. In addition to the original Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference held in Vermont each August, Bread Loaf has expanded to include programs for environmental writers and literary translators as well as an international program in Sicily.  READ MORE