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Established with a generous gift from the Bermont family and in partnership with the Anthony Quinn Foundation, the Fellowship in Fiction and Nonfiction provides promising students with a unique and valuable experience in support of their own professional and artistic development as writers. Full-time undergraduate students (from any academic discipline or major) are selected annually through a blind submission process to attend an intensive, one-day master class with a distinguished visiting writer.

The 2020-2021 Bermont Fellowship Distinguished Visiting author is two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Adam Haslett. Mr. Haslett’s body of work includes  three critically acclaimed works of fiction, Imagine Me Gone, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award; You Are Not a Stranger Here, named one of the five best books of the year by Time Magazine, also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and winner of  the PEN/Malamud Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award; and Union Atlantic, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize.

A reading and conversation with Mr. Haslett, cosponsored with the Bermont Fellowship for Fiction and Nonfiction, The Rogers Free Library Jane Bodell Endowment, the Mary Tefft White Endowment, and the Anthony Quinn Foundation, will be held on March 22, 2021 at 7:00 pm.  

Date: March 22, 2021

Time: 7:00 pm via Zoom