Below is a listing of 100 of the many writers who have attended Bread Loaf over the past century:

1920 and 30s

Robert Frost
Willa Cather
Archibald MacLeish
Stephen Vincent Benet
Louis Untermeyer

Sinclair Lewis
Carson McCullers
Eudora Welty
W. H. Auden 
Katherine Anne Porter 

1940s

Truman Capote
Theodore Roethke
William Carlos Williams
Ted Morrison

Bernard DeVoto
Wallace Stegner
Richard Wright 

1950s

Ralph Ellison
Richard Wilbur
John Ciardi
Julia Child

Anne Sexton
Czeslaw Milosz
Adrienne Rich 
Octavio Paz

1960s

William Meredith
Joan Didion
Diane Wakowski
Harry Crews
John Frederick Nims
Dan Wakefield

Richard Ellmann
Shirley Jackson
Romulus Linney
Howard Nemerov
A.R. Ammons

1970s

Joyce Carol Oates 
Toni Morrison
Stanley Elkin
John Gardner
Isaac Asimov

Robert Hayden
Judy Blume
Maxine Kumin
Galway Kinnell

1980s

Russell Banks
Erica Jong
Linda Pastan
Tim O’Brien
John Irving
Maxine Kumin

Julia Alvarez
Francine Prose
Donald Justice
Philip Levine
Amy Hempel
Ellen Bryant Voigt

1990s

Edward Hirsch
Garrett Hongo
Michael Collier
Andrea Barrett
Margot Livesey

Charles Baxter
Louise Glück 
Gloria Naylor
William Maxwell
Jorie Graham

2000s

Lorrie Moore 
Yusef Komunyakaa
Carl Phillips
Stacey D’Erasmo
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Jhumpa Lahiri
Barry Lopez

Cheryl Strayed
Sigrid Nunez
Patricia Hampl
Lynn Freed
Thomas Mallon
Luis Alberto Urrea

2010s

Percival Everett
Danzy Senna
Eavan Boland
Randall Kenan
Peter Ho Davies
Lan Samantha Chang

Yiyun Li
Natasha Trethewey
David Treuer
Monica Youn
Lauren Groff

2020s

Jericho Brown
Alexander Chee
Christopher Castellani
Vievee Francis
Victor LaValle

Emily Raboteau
Rebecca Makkai
Garth Greenwell
Jamel Brinkley
Ilya Kaminsky