Aerial view of the Bread Loaf campus with 100 years and an illustration of a yellow Adirondack chair.

Centennial

Celebrate 100 years of Bread Loaf!

We invite you to enjoy the special features below and to stop back as we share more throughout the year.

A Hundred Years, A Hundred Writers

  • Willa Cather standing with car in background

    1920s–1940s

    Willa Cather (pictured)
    Robert Frost
    Eudora Welty 
    Truman Capote
    William Carlos Williams
    See the full list.

  • Anne Sexton sitting on couch

    1950s–1970s

    Anne Sexton (pictured)
    Ralph Ellison
    Czeslaw Milosz
    Joan Didion
    Joyce Carol Oates 
    See the full list.

  • Yusef Komunyakaa looking at camera

    1980s–2000s

    Yusef Komunyakaa (pictured)
    Erica Jong
    Edward Hirsch
    Garrett Hongo
    Sigrid Nunez
    See the full list.

  • Danzy Senna standing in doorway

    2010s–present

    Danzy Senna (pictured)
    Natasha Trethewey
    David Treuer
    Monica Youn
    Victor LaValle
    See the full list.

A Retrospective

Tifanie Yanique Play

Bread Loaf Documentary

Produced by Corey Hendrickson 

A panel of speakers Play

Centennial Panel

Toni Morrison receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993

Prizes and Awards

6 Nobel 
43 Pulitzer
41 PEN America
29 National Book Critics’ Circle 
37 National Book
13 Kingsley Tufts
8 Kate Tufts
60 Academy of American Poets
28 Discovery/The Nation

See the full list.

(Pictured: Toni Morrison receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.)

Preserving the Past for the Future

Archive photo of the Bread Loaf Inn

Willa Cather Tea Cabin

Thanks to the support of the Middlebury College Board of Trustees including Suzanne Reider, the Tea Cabin on the Bread Loaf campus will be renovated and renamed the Willa Cather Tea Cabin.

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The Toni Morrison Fellowship

Named after the beloved Bread Loaf faculty member and Nobel Prize-winning author, the newly endowed Toni Morrison Fellowship was established thanks to the generosity of the Trout Lily Foundation.

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The Bread Loaf Book

Welcome to the Mountain is our celebration of the first one hundred years of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. The forthcoming book will be published by Four Way Books in Fall 2026 with first copies available on the mountain in August and also by pre-order.

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Bread Loaf Goes to Hollywood

From the Archives

Visit the past for a full scope of Bread Loaf’s rich history.

  • Lectures and Readings

    Listen to lectures and readings from all of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences.

  • The Archives

    Explore a trove of recordings, Crumb daily newsletters, photographs, and other documents.

  • Slideshow

    Scroll through a slideshow of Bread Loaf over the years!

The Centennial Fund

Little Theater Aerial picture

If you have ever considered making a donation to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, now is the moment to do so. The special Centennial Fund, available only for 2025 to 2026, makes it possible for every dollar of every donation to go directly to the conferences. We hope you’ll consider making a donation no matter the size to help us address the many pressing needs as the conferences move into the next century.

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