MFA in Writing News
Growing Up JobsLisa Brennan-Jobs MFA '09 writes about her childhood navigating between her struggling single mom and her famous father.
Simpson Smith Named Eudora Welty Chair at Millsaps CollegeBennington Writing Seminars alum Katy Simpson Smith MFA '13 has been appointed Eudora Welty Chair for Southern Literature at Millsaps College.
Bennington Writing Seminars PEN/Emerging Voices Scholarship RenewedThe 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.
Bennington Writing Seminars Announces Inaugural Residential Teaching FellowLisa Ann Cockrel, a third-term MFA candidate in nonfiction, has been selected as the first Residential Teaching Fellow at the Bennington Writing Seminars.
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.