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The Sky Is Yours, the debut novel by Chandler Klang Smith ’05 was included in Huffington Post’s list of “60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018.”
A bookstore started by two Bennington graduates has just celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary, reported The St. Albans Messenger.
Retiring faculty member Doug Bauer on teaching and time at Bennington by Keegan Ead and Madeline Cole ’16
NewPages.com glowingly reviewed issue three of Bennington Review, calling it "an incredibly strong issue put forth by an excellent journal."
Since creating the viral Twitter account "Astro Poets," which aims to change the way the Internet sees the zodiac, visiting literature faculty member Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky have amassed a collection of more than 194,000 Twitter followers, a monthly advice column for WMagazine and, as they recently announced, a new book deal.
Awarded a University & College Poetry Prize by the Academy of American Poets, a poem by Alysse Kathleen McCanna MFA ’15 was recently published on the Academy’s website.
A poem guide by literature faculty member Camille Guthrie of Robert Browning's dramatic monologue, "My Last Duchess," was recently published by the Poetry Foundation.
Frances Revel ’17 has won the Aliki Perroti And Seth Frank Most Promising Young Poet Award for her poem “Hymn for the End of Drought.”
Disorder Press, co-founded by Joseph Grantham '16, published Memory Foam by Adam Soldofsky, which won a 2017 American Book Award.
Judith Jones '45, longtime editor at Alfred A. Knopf, who championed the Diary of Anne Frank and the publication of Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, has died. She was 93.
Bennington College announced today that poet Mark Wunderlich has been named the next director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, the College’s MFA program in writing.
Bennington Review has released its third issue, titled Threat.
At Length has published two poems by Camille Guthrie, "Family Collection" and "The Other Victorians."
Bennington Review was awarded the Firecracker Award from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses for Best Debut Literary Magazine.
Lambda Literary featured a poem by Trenton Pollard '09 as part of its ongoing weekly poem series.
A poem by visiting literature faculty member Phillip Williams is included in the current issue of the Boston Review.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters honored Safiya Sinclair '10, Lee Clay Johnson '07, and MFA faculty Kathleen Graber.
Visiting literature faculty member Phillip Williams’ debut poetry collection, Thief in the Interior, has been named a 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist.
For her recently published poetry collection, Cannibal, Safiya Sinclair ’10 has been longlisted for the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
Visiting faculty member Phillip B. Williams has won a Whiting Award for his debut book of poems, Thief In The Interior. MFA faculty member Kaitlyn Greenidge won for her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman.
Catapult—a premier online literary journal—has published Marguerite Feitlowitz's Spanish-to-English translation of a story by Luisa Valenzuela called "Phone Call From Hell." Valenzuela is a major Argentine novelist, short story writer, and the current President of Argentine PEN.
Marguerite Feitlowitz was on a panel at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) in February, called "Tipping the Scales: Addressing Gender Imbalance in Literature in Translation,” which was highlighted on Words Without Borders.
Margin notes scribbled throughout Marlene Dietrich’s expansive book collection offer a rare glimpse into the iconic actress and singer’s life, Megan Mayhew Bergman (MFAW '10), associate director of Bennington’s MFA in Writing, writes in The New Yorker.
Visiting faculty Phillip B. Williams has won the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his debut poetry collection, Thief In The Interior.
A new literary crime-and-memoir hybrid by Claudia Rowe ’88 dropped recently, earning a spot on New York Post’s “Must Read Books” list and critical praise from Kirkus Reviews and Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl.
This Will Be My Undoing, a collection of essays by Morgan Jerkins MFA '16, was included in the The Millions most anticipated books of 2017 list.
LitHub published an article by Summer Brennan '01 called "Notes From the Resistance: A Column on Language and Power."
Art In Print glowingly reviewed Thorsten Dennerline and Michael Dumanis’ “A Cloud In Trousers,” writing that the “clouds, sky, [and] text….create a rich brew that has...everything to do with the roots of poetry.”