Special Funding

Special funding opportunities for summer 2025 are listed below. Please note that students interested in applying for any special funding opportunity should also apply for regular financial aid.

Fellowships

Deposits Waived

Applicants interested in any fellowship opportunity should apply through the fellowship application form located within your Bread Loaf student enrollment portals (once you have been enrolled for the coming session). Application deadlines are noted within each fellowship description below. Applicants for fellowships must also apply for admission or already be enrolled at the Bread Loaf School of English, and they must also apply for Middlebury financial aid.

BLTN Fellowships

Bread Loaf School of English will offer competitive fellowships of up to $10,000 for public school teachers, with some awards designated specifically for those working in underserved schools and communities. Fellows will become active members of the Bread Loaf Teacher Network. Applicants must be full-time teachers in a public school or community leaders working with underserved youth. Please read the full BLTN Fellowship description for details on the fellowships, eligibility, obligations of fellows, and application deadlines.

Teaching, Writing, and Acting for Change Fellowships

As a member of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation, the Bread Loaf School of English is delighted to offer a special set of courses and fellowships to promote Teaching, Writing, and Acting for Change. Our aim is to engage a networked cohort of teachers in the investigation and development of practices for working across and within difference and towards social justice. 

We are pleased to offer a number of $11,000 Teaching, Writing, and Acting for Change Fellowships. These will cover the 2025 summer study at Bread Loaf Vermont for K-12 teachers or community educators who commit to becoming a part of the Change cohort and developing collaborative school or community projects that involve using literacy practices to build understanding and change across differences.

During the summer of 2025, Fellows will complete two graduate courses, including one from the Change curriculum. They will become active members of the Bread Loaf Teacher Network (BLTN), which meets weekly during the summer to explore pedagogical innovation, teacher research, and social action teaching and learning. And they will build a collaborative social action project from their coursework, with the support of BLTN peers and mentors. The Teaching, Writing, and Acting for Change curriculum, offered at the Bread Loaf Vermont campus, centers on theories and practices for approaching conflict as an opportunity for catalyzing cultural understanding and positive change.

Please read the full Change Fellowship description for details on the fellowships, eligibility, obligations of fellows, and application deadlines.

What’s the Story? Fellowships

Bread Loaf School of English will offer a limited number of special fellowships of $11,000 for teachers in public schools. Fellows will become active members of the Bread Loaf Teacher Network and will join the instructional team of the What’s the Story? Young Filmmakers’ Social Action Team program for the 2025-2026 academic year, collaborating with other  teachers on projects that put students at the center of education and link education to community. Please read the full WTS Fellowship description for details on the fellowships, eligibility, obligations of fellows, and application deadlines. 

Global Change Fellowships for California Teachers

The Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English (BLSE) is delighted to offer special $9,000 fellowships for California public school teachers. These fellowships will support graduate study at the 2025 BLSE Summer Institute in Global Humanities, a three-week intensive residential program located at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in Monterey, California.  With appreciation for the diversity of California public schools, our aim is to create a network of California educators committed to cultivating global understanding in their schools and communities. Read the full Global Change fellowship description for details.

Scholarships

Applicants interested in any scholarship opportunity should apply through the scholarship application form located within your Bread Loaf student enrollment portals (once you have been enrolled for the coming session). Application deadlines are noted within each scholarship description below. Applicants for scholarships must also apply for admission or already be enrolled at the Bread Loaf School of English, and they must also apply for Middlebury financial aid.

Bread Loaf Centennial Scholarships

Created to celebrate the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English’s Centennial, these scholarships provide funds supplemental to financial aid, up to the full cost of Bread Loaf summer study, for public school teachers, with some awards designated specifically for those working in underserved schools and communities. Please read the Centennial Scholarship description for details.

Roxanne McCormick Leighton ‘67 Scholarships

These scholarships will support study in the Bread Loaf program for new or returning students who will enhance the Bread Loaf community. Awards will cover up to the full cost of participation in the program. Please read the Leighton ‘67 Scholarship description for details.

Bridge Scholarships for Winter Institute Participants

For students who have attended at least one Bread Loaf Winter Institute and who are enrolling for the first time in one of Bread Loaf’s summer programs, these scholarships support study at any of the School’s residential or online programs in the amount of $2500; the application fee will also be waived. Note that applicants for Bridge Scholarship may additionally - but are not required to - apply for regular financial aid. Please read the Bridge Scholarship description for full details.

James Maddox Presidential Fellowships

Middlebury will offer a limited number of special scholarships to support summer study at Bread Loaf for students who have attended Middlebury’s undergraduate college or the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Fellowships will cover $5,000 of the costs of attending the program at any campus in summer 2025. Preference will be given to applicants who graduated from Middlebury between 2020 and 2025. Find more information on the James Maddox Presidential Fellowships.

Faculty Fund

The Bread Loaf Faculty Fund provides modest awards to supplement financial aid for returning students who, due to exceptional circumstances, still have outstanding need. To be eligible, applicants must be returning students in good standing who have been awarded financial aid. Find more information on the Faculty Fund.

Ahawayet Fellowship for Teachers and Writers of Indigenous Traditions

The Ahawayet Fellowship for the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English was established to provide a fellowship for teachers and writers committed to the study and celebration of the Indigenous traditions of the Northeastern United States. To be eligible for the Ahawayet Fellowship, applicants must be engaged in the study and expression of Indigenous traditions. Preference will be given to teachers and writers of Northeastern (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) Indigenous traditions, but applications from writers and teachers of Indigenous traditions from any region of the United States are welcome. Please read the full Ahawayet Fellowship description for details.

Oxford Campus Awards

The Oxford awards are designed to assist returning students who might not otherwise be able to attend Bread Loaf’s Oxford campus. Applicants must be returning students enrolled at the Oxford campus who have received financial aid. Please read the full Oxford Awards description for details.

Academy for Teachers Scholarships

Scholarships of $5000, offered jointly by The Academy and Bread Loaf, will be awarded to Fellows of The Academy for Teachers who show a passion for literature, a love of creativity, and a devotion to teaching. Note that recipients may additionally - but are not required to -apply for financial aid and special funding that can supplement the Academy/Bread Loaf scholarships up to the full cost of attendance. Read the full Academy Scholarship description for details.

Questions?

To receive more information about these special fellowships, contact the Bread Loaf School of English office at blse@middlebury.edu or direct any specific questions to Dana Olsen at dolsen@middlebury.edu.