Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College [1]
Poetry: Jennifer Chang, Michael Dumanis, Randall Mann, Craig Morgan Teicher, Mark Wunderlich
Fiction: Peter Cameron, Jai Chakrabarti, Stacey D’Erasmo, Monica Ferrell, Rebecca Makkai, Stuart Nadler, Téa Obreht, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Katy Simpson Smith, Taymour Soomro
Nonfiction: Garrard Conley, Sabrina Orah Mark, Spencer Reece, Lance Richardson, Shawna Kay Rodenberg, Hugh Ryan, Greg Wrenn
The program offers tuition assistance through partial scholarships. Students may also apply for Federal Student Aid.
The Writing Seminars offers one term of tuition remission thanks to a full-immersion teaching fellowship [3] open to selected MFA students.
Students attend two ten-day residencies each year, in January and June, at the Bennington College campus in Bennington, Vermont. The program hosts a nightly reading series with faculty and visiting writers, as well as lectures, master classes, craft sessions, and professional development seminars.
The program also offers a dual-genre track; application fee is $100.
The application deadline is September 1 for the Winter term starting with the January residency and March 1 for the Summer term beginning with the June residency. View their complete guidelines [4] and prospective student FAQs [5] for more information, and apply here [6].