MFAW News
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In 2019, undergraduate and Bennington Writing Seminars alumni and faculty published over 65 books.
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Poet Jericho Brown delivered the 49th Bennington Writing Seminars Commencement address.
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Jericho Brown, finalist for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry, will be the Commencement speaker for the Bennington Writing Seminars in January 2020.
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Puloma Ghosh, a rising fourth-term MFA candidate in fiction, has been selected as the fourth Residential Teaching Fellow at the Bennington Writing Seminars, working in the classroom for a full term beginning in Spring 2020
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Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Carmen Giménez Smith is a finalist for the 2019 National Book Awards in Poetry.