MFA in Writing News
The Gendered Construction of Jazz In a piece on NPR, Michelle Mercer MFA '10 highlighted the continued sexism in the jazz world, in the light of recent comments from two top jazz figures.
Mayhew Bergman on “The Feminine Heroic”Paris Review correspondent Megan Mayhew Bergman (MFAW '10), associate director of Bennington’s MFA in Writing, addresses in her latest column how women, often excluded from adventure narratives, carve out their own heroic space.
Writing Seminars Announces Scholarships with PEN USA, Cave Canem Bennington Writing Seminars is pleased to announce two one-time creative writing MFA scholarships, in partnership with the PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship, and Cave Canem Poets, an organization committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.
American Academy Honors Alums, Faculty The American Academy of Arts and Letters honored Safiya Sinclair '10, Lee Clay Johnson '07, and MFA faculty Kathleen Graber.
How America Fails Black Girls Morgan Jerkins MFA ’16 wrote an opinion piece published in the New York Times, in response to a recent wave of disappearances of children of color in Washington DC.