Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & dual-genre. Ranked one of the Top 3 low-residency MFA programs by The Atlantic and Poets & Writers.
Bennington, Vermont
Joined October 2013
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Happy Publication Day to @s_m_constantine, MFA '14! The book he co-wrote with Ann Wolbert Burgess, EXPERT WITNESS: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance, is now available from Hachette Books.
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Congratulations to @rowenalsinger MFA ’16 (Fiction)! She has been named a 2025 BIPOC scholarship recipient for the Sonoma County Writers Camp:
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Congratulations to @bonnerjeanne, MFA ’16, on her translation of THIS DARKNESS WILL NEVER END, a long-lost 1962 story collection by Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck. The project was supported by a @NEAarts Translation Fellowship.
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Congratulations to @aurelie_thiele, MFA '25! She was accepted in the April 2025 cohort of the @GrantaMag Writers' Workshop for Writing a Literary Novel, under the guidance of Sarah Moss:
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Cheers to @chayab77, MFA '24! She has been awarded a @masscultural grant in Literature for 2025 for a story collection in progress. 🎉
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Writers, get ready! ✏️ Submissions for the BLR Literary Prizes opens March 1st. Learn more about the judges and our guidelines for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction here: blreview.org/news/recent-new…
The deadline is July 1st. We can't wait to read your writing!
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send us your slim volumes!
Joyland Editions will open to un-agented submissions from March 1-March 31.
Writers should submit a PDF of their complete manuscript (~20,000-60,000 words) and a cover letter no longer than one single-spaced page including a brief author bio and description of the work.
Submissions will open on March 1 via Submittable, where you’ll find more detailed guidelines. In the meantime, please send any questions to [email protected]. We look forward to reading your work.
Congratulations to April Darcy, MFA '16! She won first place in the @TFOB Literary Awards for fiction for her short story, “Elephants on Parade.” She will be attending the festival for an award winner's panel called "Tomorrow's Bestsellers Today.”
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Congratulations to @c_g_whitney, MFA '16! His novel, I Have Never Felt Alive, is out now via @atmospherepress. 🎉
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Ah shit.... you forgot to submit.
Don't worry, there's still time 💙
Go find these fantastic mags on our database and send them your stuffff
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ALT 20 Lit mags that Pay Writers & Don't Charge Fees have deadlines on January 31 • Ecotone Pay $200+ • Mud Season Review Pay $50 • After Happy Hour Review Pay $15 - $50 • Southword Journal Pay per piece: €40 • Nashville Review Pay: $100 • Propel Magazine Pay £20 • Heartlines Spec Pay per word: CA$O.08 • +doc- Pay: CA$50 • Notch Pay $20 - $200 • Inner Worlds Pay per piece: £0.02 • The Rebis Pay $200 • ellipsis... Pay per page: $3 • ONLY POEMS Pay $77 • Reforestation Magazine • Brink Literary Journal Pay $25 Pay $30 • Lesbian Historic Motif • The Paris Review Pays Writers Podcast Pay per word: $0.08 • fifth wheel press Pay
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Submissions are now OPEN for our Spring 2025 issue! Submit poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art by Friday, March 7. We look forward to seeing your work!
Submission guidelines: remingtonreview.wixsite.com/…
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Happy Publication Day to @chayab77 Chaya Bhuvaneswar, MFA '24 (Fiction)! Her novella, LALITA, is out today as part of the collection, PROPER IMPOSTERS (Panhandler Books):
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Congratulations to the Winter 2025 graduates! Tonight, 19 talented writers will earn their MFAs in Writing and Literature. 🎉🎓📚
Tonight at 7:00 PM ET! Elizabeth McCracken and Aisha Sabatini Sloan will read for the final evening of our Winter 2025 Bennington Writers Reading series.
This event is free and open to the public virtually via Zoom:
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Tonight at 7:30 PM (please note the later start time), the Writing Seminars presents a special evening with poet, fiction writer, and critic Mary Ruefle as part of the Writers Reading series:
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Photo by Libby Lewis Photography.
Tonight at 7:00 PM ET! Samantha Hunt, Jesse Nathan, and Mark Wunderlich will read as part of the Writers Reading series.
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Join us for the Bennington Writers Reading series—free, open to the public, and streaming live:
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Today: At 3:45 PM ET, Alumni Fellows Nico Amador (MFA ’22), Jessica Danger (MFA ’16), and James Roseman (MFA ’22) read in the Writers Reading series.
At 7 PM, Dana Levin, Bruna Dantas Lobato, and Shawna Kay Rodenberg share recent work:
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Tonight at 7:00 PM ET: Michael Dumanis, Sabrina Orah Mark, and Emily Nemens will read from their recent work as part of the Writers Reading series. Join us:
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Tonight at 7:00 PM ET! Faculty members Ramona Ausubel, Marie Mutsuki Mockett (MFA '19), and Katy Simpson Smith (MFA '13) will read from their recent work as part of the Writers Reading series:
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Tonight at 7PM ET, Saeed Jones and Claire Vaye Watkins will read at Tishman Hall as part of our Writers Reading Series. Carmen Giménez will also be joining this evening's reading:
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