MFAW News

Donald Hall and President Barack Obama Bennington Writing Seminars Announces the Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets

Thanks to a generous and sustaining gift from an anonymous donor, the Bennington Writing Seminars is pleased to announce it will begin offering the Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets.

Writing Seminars logo and images of the three recipients Bennington Writing Seminars PEN/Emerging Voices Scholarship Renewed

The Bennington Writing Seminars, in partnership with PEN Center USA, has announced that during the September 2018 admissions period, it will once again be offering a scholarship of $10,000 to an alumni of PEN's Emerging Voices Fellowship program.

Lisa Cockrel Bennington Writing Seminars Announces Inaugural Residential Teaching Fellow

Lisa Ann Cockrel, a third-term MFA candidate in nonfiction, has been selected as the first Residential Teaching Fellow at the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Sarai Walker's Dietland Dietland on the Small Screen

Dietland, a novel by Sarai Walker MFA '03, premiered in June as a TV series on AMC.

Young Writers Institute The Love of Words

When asked why they love to write, the high school students at the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont (GIV) Young Writers Institute are quick to reply.