Bread Loaf Conferences

BL Translators' 2020

Dates:
June 10 - June 16, 2020

Location:
Ripton, Vermont

Application Period:
November 1, 2019 - February 15, 2020

Rolling Admissions

Interviews

Click here to read an interview by Open Letter’s Chad W. Post with Bread Loafer Katie Whittemore about her forthcoming translations and her experience attending last year’s Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Bread Loafers Catherine Nelson and Jeanne Bonner for receiving PEN grants for their translations!

Catherine Nelson received a 2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her translation from the Spanish of Tea Rooms: Working Women by Luisa Carnés, and Jeanne Bonner received the 2018 PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature for her translation of A Walk in the Shadows by Mariateresa Di Lascia.

Participant Comments

"Since our group had nine translators working from six languages, we learned about translation issues in a variety of source languages outside our own, and each piece we discussed brought insights about a particular culture."
– Melissa Bowers
Seattle, Washington

"What I got out of this conference has been well beyond what I could have imagined. Most importantly, perhaps, I left with the beginnings of an overall conception of a method that works for me and the resources to begin plying this craft and honing my skills to accomplish what I have been envisioning doing for years."
- Darren-Jurmé Allumier
Milwaukee, WI

Informal reading on the porch of Bread Loaf Inn

Contact Information

Bread Loaf Conferences
Attn: Translators’ Conference
204 College Street
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753

Phone: 802-443-5286
Fax: 802-443-2087
Email: blt@middlebury.edu

CONTACT INFORMATION

Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences
204 College Street
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753

Phone: 802-443-5286
Fax: 802-443-2087
Email: blwc@middlebury.edu

Congratulations to Bread Loafers Amina Gautier and Joan Silber for winning 
the 2018 PEN/Faulkner Foundation Awards and to finalists Hernán Diaz and 
Samantha Hunt!

Amina Gautier won the 2018 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the 
Short Story and Joan Silber won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for 
her novel Improvement. Hernán Diaz (In The Distance) and Samantha 
Hunt (The Dark Dark) were included on the 2018 finalist list for the 
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Tiphanie Yanique Interview:

Congratulations to Bread Loaf faculty member Arthur Sze for
winning the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry for his book
Sight Lines and to the following faculty, guests, and participants
who were included on the Finalists list:

Jericho Brown, The Tradition; Toi Derricotte, “I”: New and Selected Poems;
Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness
and Resistance; Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic; Laila Lalami, The Other Americans;
Carmen Giménez Smith, Be Recorder; and David Treuer, The Heartbeat
of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present.

Reading & Lecture Audio Recordings 
Click on the link below to listen to BL Environmental,
BL Translators', and BL Writers' readings and lectures:

Bread Loaf Reading & Lecture Recordings