Happy Publication Day to poetry/nonfiction faculty member and director of special projects, Craig Morgan Teicher! His poetry collection, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, is out today from BOA Editions:
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Congratulations to Niloufar Talebi, MFA '05 (Nonfiction)! She served as translator and editor of Ahmad Shamlou’s ELEGIES OF THE EARTH: Selected Poems, now available from World Poetry Books.
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Big congratulations to poetry faculty member Jennifer Chang, recipient of the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for An Authentic Life (Copper Canyon Press):
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Happy Publication Day to Caro Claire Burke, MFA '20 (Fiction)! Her debut novel, YESTERYEAR, is out today from Knopf:
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Congratulations to @kristinleong.bsky.social, MFA ’26 (Nonfiction)! She has won two NYC Podcast Awards, including the Debbie Millman Award for excellence in audio storytelling, for her podcast Odd One In:
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Happy Publication Day to poetry/fiction faculty member Monica Ferrell. 🎉 Her new poetry collection, THE FUTURE, is now available from Four Way Books:
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We’re excited to announce that beginning in January 2027, the Bennington Writing Seminars will offer a dual-genre concentration in Literary Translation.
✨ Applications are OPEN NOW for all genres to begin in January 2027. ✨
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Spread the word that Eyes on Mississippi is available nationally via pbs.org The resonance with today hits hard
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Writers! A reminder that applications are due March 1 for the Summer 2026 term of the Bennington Writing Seminars:
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Happy Publication Day to Anne Garland Mahler, MFA candidate in fiction! Her book, A WIDE NET OF SOLIDARITY: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe, is now available from Duke University Press. 🎉
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Happy Publication Day to Guillermo Rebollo Gil, MFA '23! His new poetry collection, TO LEARN TO DESCRIBE THE ANIMAL, is now available from
@gasherpress.bsky.social. 🎉✨🪶
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There’s still time. The final deadline to apply for Bennington’s MFA in Writing is September 1. Take the next step toward honing your craft in a community of dedicated writers.
Apply today by going to www.bennington.edu/mfa-writing. @benningtonwriting.bsky.social
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Congratulations to @izineh.bsky.social, MFA '24, whose poem “History” was named a finalist for the Auburn Witness Prize by Southern Humanities Review! ✨
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Congratulations to Felicia A. Rivers, MFA ’23 (Fiction), whose story “My Vertical Landscape” has been awarded the Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest! 🎉
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Three cheers for fiction faculty member Thomas Grattan! His novel, IN TONGUES (MCD Books), has been selected as a finalist for a @lambdaliterary.org Award! 😍🎉
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Today is the day! Join us for our Virtual Open House for prospective MFA students from 2–3 PM ET. Bring your questions and your enthusiasm. 🎉
Can’t make it live? Register anyway—we’ll send the recording to all who sign up:
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Congratulations to @jackelhai.bsky.social, MFA 09! His nonfiction book THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST—written in part during his time at Bennington—has been adapted into the upcoming film NUREMBERG, starring Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, and directed by James Vanderbilt. 🎬
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One week to go until we host our Virtual Open House for prospective MFA students on July 30 from 2–3 PM ET. Bring your questions and your enthusiasm. 🎉
Can’t make it live? Register anyway—we’ll send the recording to all who sign up:
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Congratulations to Yuko Iida Frost, MFA candidate in Nonfiction! Her memoir manuscript, THE WATER BETWEEN US, has been selected as a @blacklawrence.bsky.social Immigrant Writing Series Finalist. 🎉
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Congratulations to Jane Stringham MFA ’23 (Fiction)! Her translations of “Tidying Up,” “Climates,” and “Sacking the Temple” from Ghost Planets by Rosa Berbel have won the Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation, selected by guest judge Yuki Tejima.
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Cheers to Michael Martinec MFA ’22 (Poetry)! He has been awarded the 2024 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize, awarded by Bear Review, for his poem, “February.” 🏆
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Congratulations to Amy Raasch MFA ’24 (Poetry)! Her poetry collection, WHY I AM NOT A GRAVEDIGGER, was named a finalist for the Jack McCarthy Prize, awarded by Write Bloody Publishing.
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Congratulations to Nico Amador, MFA ’22! His poem, "Study #2 for cm" won first place in the Blue Mesa Review Spring 2025 Contest Issue judged by Sara Daniele Rivera. 🎉
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Congratulations to the June 2025 graduates! Tonight, 20 talented writers will earn their MFAs in Writing and Literature. 🎉 🎓
Tonight at 7:00 PM ET! Randall Mann and Dinaw Mengestu will read for the final evening of our Summer 2025 Bennington Writers Reading series. ⭐
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This event is free and open to the public virtually via Zoom:
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Tonight at 7:15 PM ET (please note the later start time): Garrard Conley, Thomas Grattan, and Lance Richardson will read from their work as part of the Writers Reading series:
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Tonight at 7:00 PM ET: Brian Dillon, Hugh Ryan MFA '09, and Taymour Soomro will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series:
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Happy Publication Day to CE Mackenzie, MFA '11 (Poetry)! Their book, ACHY AFFECTS, is now available from @upittpress.bsky.social. 🎉
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Tonight at 7:00 PM ET: Jai Chakrabarti, Stacey D'Erasmo, and Craig Morgan Teicher will read from their recent work as part of the Writers Reading series:
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Tonight at 7:00 PM ET: Monica Ferrell, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Moriel Rothman-Zecher MFA '23 will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.
Join us:
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