Bennington Writing Seminars

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. 🎉

https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948568/

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:

https://www.bennington.edu/events/2025-06-07/monica-ferrell-dawn-lundy-martin-and-moriel-rothman-zecher-mfa-23

Tonight at 7:00 PM ET! Peter Cameron, Bianca Stone, and De’Shawn Charles Winslow will read from their recent work as part of the Writers Reading series.

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Today we welcome students, faculty, and guests to our Summer 2025 residency! Tonight at 7:00 PM ET, we’ll kick off our Summer Reading Series with Jennifer Chang, Rachel Cohen, and Rebecca Makkai. Join us virtually:

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Julia Juster, MFA '24 (Nonfiction), was selected as a finalist for the Quarterly West prose contest. 🎉 Her essay, "Trash Elegies," was published in issue 114:

https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-114-juster

Only a few days to go until our summer residency! Please join us for our nightly Writers Reading Series, which is open to the public and will be available to stream virtually:

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Congrats to Elisabetta La Cava MFA '25! She has been awarded the Tennessee Williams Scholarship for the Sewanee Writers' Conference, where she will be attending this summer as a Scholar. 🎉

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I’ll be reading at @benningtonwriting.bsky.social (alongside the wonderful Jennifer Chang and Rachel Cohen) on June 5 at 7pm… This is part of the MFA program's evening reading series and many more writers will be reading as the residency goes on!
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Three cheers for Jennifer Edwards, MFA candidate in Poetry! Her poem, "Hanky," was selected as a finalist for the Iron Horse Literary Review NaPoMo (National Poetry Month) annual contest:

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Congratulations to Kasey Payette, MFA candidate in Fiction/Nonfiction! Her essay, "Good Babies," has won first place in Blue Mesa Review's Spring 2025 nonfiction contest, judged by Jenn Shapland:

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St. Christina | Rust & Moth Today, March 13th, is my name day, along with all girls named for Christina. In Poland, my father told me, the streets were flooded with daffodils for the other Krysias. In her honor, I consider how t...

"St. Christina" is up at Rust & Moth today! Nearly 3 years since this poem featured in my grad reading @benningtonwriting.bsky.social. And gosh my tongue has gotten up to so much more since! rustandmoth.com/work/st-chri...