2020s, Bread Loaf School of English, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience
Too Busy Blurbing Books
For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job.
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2000s, Bread Loaf School of English, Academic Excellence, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture
Book of the Century
The New York Times Book Review included The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04 on its list of the 100 greatest books of the 21st century.
2020s, Bread Loaf School of English, Language Schools, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Equity & Justice, Identity
New in Kids’ Lit
Two alumni have written children’s books that address cultural differences and migration.
2000s, 2020s, Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences, Academic Excellence, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture
Prize Poetry
Kellam Ayres, MA English ’07 has been awarded the 2023 Spacks Prize for her forthcoming full-length poetry collection, In the Cathedral of My Undoing.
2000s, Bread Loaf School of English, Academic Excellence, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture
Evolution of Literary Prizes
McGill literature professor Xander Manshel ’09, MA English ’14 appeared on the podcast On the Media to share his research on the influence of literary prizes and how they’ve changed over the last 35 years.
2020s, Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School of English, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience
Finding Beauty in an Aging Body
Sara Allen MA English ’87 is exhibiting a series of photographs of her “naturally aging body with its creases, folds and rough textures, its bumps and lines and spots” at the Abington Art Center in Pennsylvania.
2000s, Bread Loaf School of English, Academic Excellence, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture
College Applicant Advice
Sam Prouty, MA English ’09, executive director of Admissions, has plenty of application tips for students and their parents.
2020s, Bread Loaf School of English, Arts, Language, Culture
Summer Writings
Enjoy the poetry and prose of this summer’s cohort at the Bread Loaf School of English. The theme for the summer 2023 edition of the Bread Loaf Journal is recovery and resilience.
Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture
A Writer’s Craft
The latest podcast episode of Midd Moment features Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04, a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer.
Bread Loaf School of English, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty
Poetry as Medicine
Former Bread Loaf faculty member Marjorie Ryerson has published her first book of poetry, The Views from Mount Hunger.