Creative Writing

MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole has taught during Winter Term and lectured at Middlebury in the past, most recently on Jewish mystical poetry.

Writing Into the Void: How to Make Work & Address Challenging Topics in Difficult Times. A one hour session with writer & professor Megan Mayhew-Bergman. We’ll work through some writing prompts, talk about building healthy relationships with a creative practice, discuss techniques for challenging subject matter. There will be space for Q&A

Moriel Rothman-Zecher, ‘11, returns to Middlebury to read from his first novel, Sadness Is a White Bird, a coming-of-age novel of which the Jerusalem Post has said that it “conveys the complexities of Israeli and Palestinian life with passion, nuance and tenderness…” Rothman-Zecher “has shown a fearlessness and vulnerability on these pages that speak to his ability to explore difficult terrain without feeling the need to draw any neat or concise conclusions. It shuns certainty and is open, nuanced, inconclusive and often contradictory. Just like Israeli reality.”