Preserving the Past for the Future

The Willa Cather Tea Cabin

Thanks to the generosity of Suzie Reider and the support of Middlebury College, the Tea Cabin on the Bread Loaf campus will be renovated and renamed the Willa Cather Tea Cabin. Originally a small cabin with a fireplace to heat water for afternoon tea services on the mountain, Willa Cather claimed the cabin as her own writing studio during her time teaching at Bread Loaf, working both on The Professor’s House as well as A Lost Lady.

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. It’s the beginning, we hope, of a host of future scholarships that will honor notable Bread Loafers from the past one hundred years as a way to support Bread Loaf writers of the next hundred years. 

Bread Loaf Will Now Be a Book

Welcome to the Mountain is our celebration of the first one hundred years of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Although not exactly an anthology, the book will include some of the most memorable lectures and readings of Bread Loafers who attended or taught at the Writers’ Conference, but the book also aims to enact on the page the kind of community and mentorship one experiences on the mountain—a kind of portable Bread Loaf. Edited by Lauren Francis-Sharma and Jennifer Grotz, Four Way Books will be publishing this volume, due out officially next Fall 2026, but first copies will be available next summer on the mountain and also by pre-order. Be sure to get your own copy!

Donate to the Centennial Fund

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.