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In 2018, undergraduate and Bennington Writing Seminars alumni and faculty published over 75 books. Their writing spanned across a wide range of genres from nonfiction essays, memoirs, and biographies, to novels, poetry, young adult literature, and short stories.

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Awards

American Book Fest Best Books of the Year
Poetry Finalist
Fealty: Poems by Ricky Ray MFA ’20

Chicago Public Library 
This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins MFA ’16

Chicago Review of Books 
Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson MFA ’17
Feast: True Love In and Out of the Kitchen by Hannah Howard MFA ’18

The Economist’s
Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro MFA ’09

Entropy Magazine

Nerve Chorus by Willa Carroll '97, MFA '11
Age of Glass by Anna Maria Hong, faculty member
Cruel Futures by Carmen Gimenez Smith, MFA faculty member 
Best of 2018: Best Fiction Books
H & G by Anna Maria Hong, faculty member

Best Memoir & Autobiography nominee
When They Care You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele MFA ’99

Lit Hub 
The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith ’05

The New York Times
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs MFA ’09
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan ’76

NPR 
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs MFA ’09
The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith ’05
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan ’76

Publisher’s Weekly

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee, Former Bennington Writing Seminars Faculty

Cruel Futures by Carmen Giménez Smith, MFA Faculty

Reader’s Digest Best Audiobooks of 2018
Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik MFA ’14

Real Simple 
The Kinship of Secrets by Eugenia Kim MFA ’01

2018
Faculty member Natalie Scenters-Zapico

The Wall Street Journal 
The Sky is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith '05

The Washington Post 
Conscience by Alice Mattison, Bennington Writing Seminars Faculty

2019: A Preview

In 2019, along with welcoming a new group of Bennington undergraduates and Bennington Writing Seminars candidates—and the many works they will ultimately pen—the College is eagerly anticipating a robust lineup of 2019 publications, including:

• White, the first work of nonfiction by Bret Easton Ellis ’86.
• An English translation from the Portuguese of Moldy Strawberries: Stories by Caio Fernando Abreu by Bruna Dantas Lobato ’15, supported by a .
• Sing to It, a short story collection from recipient and Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Amy Hempel.
• High Heel by Summer Brennan ’01, published as part of , an essay and book series about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

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