Events Open to the Public 2025

Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ and Translators’ Conferences 2025

Lectures and readings are free and open to the public. Events are subject to change; call 802-443-5286 to confirm days and times.

8:00 p.m., Little Theater

Welcome by directors Jennifer Grotz and Megan Mayhew Bergman, and Readings by Luis Alberto Urrea and Matvei Yankelevich

9:00 a.m., Little Theater

Lecture by Nathaniel Rich, “Mars is Heaven”

9:00 a.m., Barn

Lecture by Jennifer Grotz, “Afterlives”

8:00 p.m., Little Theater

Readings by Tarfia Faizullah, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Aaron Robertson, and Damion Searls

9:00 a.m., Little Theater

Lecture by Tarfia Faizullah, “’IT SURVIVES, THE BLUE’: Thoughts on Survival”

9:00 a.m., Barn

Lecture by Aaron Robertson, “The Fugitive Translator: The Life of Glanton Dowdell”

8:00 p.m., Little Theater

Readings by Jennifer Grotz, Anton Hur, and Lauren Markham

10:15 a.m., Barn

Lecture by Anton Hur, “Why Do I Have to Do This?: Promoting Literary Translation”

9:00 a.m., Little Theater

Lecture by Abe Streep , “Writing About Disaster”

9:00 a.m., Barn

Readings by Damion Searls, “Reading Like a Translator”

8:00 p.m., Little Theater

Readings by Lydia Millet, John Murillo, and Nathaniel Rich

9:00 a.m., Little Theater

Lecture by Lauren Markham, “Landscape as Collaborator: Writing With the World Around Us”

9:00 a.m., Barn

Lecture by Matvei Yankelevich, “What Do We Translate When We Translate: Or, The Invention of Mandelstam for our Time”

8:00 p.m., Little Theater

Readings by Madhu H. Kaza, Nicole Sealey, and Abe Streep