Events Open to the Public 2025

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2025

Lectures and readings are free and open to the public. All events will take place in the Little Theater on the Bread Loaf campus in Ripton, Vermont. Events are subject to change; call 802-443-5286 to confirm days and times.

Wednesday, August 13

8:00 p.m. - Welcome by Jennifer Grotz; Reading by Special Guest Lauren Groff

Thursday, August 14

9:00 a.m. - Bread Loaf Centennial Panel, moderated by Carl Phillips with Lauren Groff, Tomás Q. Morín, Laura van den Berg, and Paul Yoon

4:15 p.m. - Readings by Lauren Francis-Sharma and V. Penelope Pelizzon

8:00 p.m. - Readings by Christopher Castellani and Stacey D’Erasmo

9:00 p.m. - Bread Loaf Centennial Slide Show

Friday, August 15

9:00 a.m. - Lecture by Paisley Rekdal, “Riddles in the Meadhall: What Old English Riddles Can Teach Us About Wonder and Metaphor”

4:15 p.m. - Readings by DK Nnuro and Laura van den Berg

8:00 p.m. - Readings by Victor LaValle and Valzhyna Mort

Saturday, August 16

9:00 a.m. - Lecture by Mat Johnson, “Mixed Metaphors”

4:15 p.m. - Readings by Special Guests Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

8:00 p.m. - Readings by Amina Gautier and Tomás Q. Morín

Sunday, August 17

9:00 a.m. - Lecture by Jennifer Grotz, “Afterlives”

4:15 p.m. - Readings by Chanda Feldman, Courtney Zoffness, Daniel Tam-Claiborne, and Margaret Ross

8:00 p.m. - Readings by Carl Phillips and Paul Yoon

Monday, August 18

4:30 p.m. - Readings by Adrienne Chung, Emet North, and Irvin Weathersby*

8:00 p.m. - Readings by Elisa Gabbert and Ishion Hutchinson

*Please note the later start time for this afternoon reading

Tuesday, August 19

9:00 a.m. - Lecture by Camille T. Dungy, “An Incomplete Catalog of the Role of Time and Place”

4:15 p.m. - Readings by Rhoni Blankenhorn, Chris Knapp, Matthew Nienow, and Shubha Sunder

8:00 p.m. - Readings by Marie Mutsuki Mockett and Carter Sickels

Wednesday, August 20

9:00 a.m. - Lecture by V. Penelope Pelizzon, “Extravagance, Opulence, Glamour: An Anti-Austerity Poetics”

4:15 p.m. - Readings by Danielle Evans and Jennifer Grotz

Thursday, August 21

9:00 a.m. - Lecture by Marie Mutsuki Mockett, “Japan’s Seasonal Words in a Time of Climate Change” 

4:15 p.m. - Readings by Gabriela Garcia, Xavier Navarro Aquino, Dantiel W. Moniz, and Callie Siskel

8:00 p.m. - Readings by Camille T. Dungy and Claire Messud 

Friday, August 22

9:00 a.m. - Lecture by Amina Gautier

4:15 p.m. - Readings by Ashley Marie Farmer, Rickey Fayne, Laura Spence-Ash, and Yuki Tanaka

8:00 p.m. - Readings by Mat Johnson and Paisley Rekdal
 

Click here to read about the 2025 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Faculty and Guests.