BENNINGTON COLLEGE

One College Dr.
Bennington VT 05201

Phone: (802) 440-4452
E-mail: writing@bennington.edu
Website: www.bennington.edu/go/graduate/mfa-in-writing

Contact

Contact: Sven Birkerts, dir..

About

"Generating original work is the focus of the program. In the Writing Seminars, the conventional divide between reading and writing disappears. More than most writing programs, we place a special emphasis upon reading, as we see writing and reading, for the strong writer, to be part of the same process. The Seminars offer an ongoing community of kindred spirits and constructive counsel, honoring the solitary nature of writing and reading and the collaborative voices of education. The student-faculty ratio of five to one assures close attention to each student’s work and progress. The residencies offer an utterly immersive retreat from the rest of the world, a retreat in which workshops and symposia are conducted, batteries are charged, and we then return to an essential solitude."