Creative Writing

Benjamin Ehrlich (Middlebury, class of 2009) is the author of THE BRAIN IN SEARCH OF ITSELF (Farrar, Straus and G

A celebration of the Spring 2026 Edition of Blackbird Arts Journal. Hear from the Blackbird editors and contributors. Reading and reception.

Senior English majors will read excerpts from their critical and creative writing senior theses.

Join the Creative Writing Department in celebration of our graduating students, who will share and read from their final creative work and theses.

Middlebury alums Lauren Markham and Chris Knapp will read from their recent work and take questions. 

Join Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, climate activist and author of All We Can Save, for a Fireside Chat on Environmental Storytelling in Our Times, via Zoom - click here for the Zoom link. 

Meeting ID 961 9620 5989
Passcode 020220

Student Robin Potter leads a panel discussion of gender and outdoors culture. 

Join renowned fiction and non-fiction author Emily Raboteau for an environmentally-minded reading and talk in Axinn 232.

More information can be found on the English Department News and Events webpage

Poets Emily Lee Luan (‘15), Leslie Sainz (Managing Editor, New England Review), and Margaret Ray (‘07) will read from their new collections. More information can be found on the English Department events webpage.