Bermont Distinguished Visiting Authors & Fellows
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.
Distinguished Visiting Author List
2024-2025 Distinguished Visiting Author - Elisa Gonzalez
Time: Monday April 7, 2025 (6:00 PM)
Location: Rogers Free Library - 525 Hope Street, Bristol RI
2023-2024 Distinguished Visiting Author - Phillip Lopate
Time: Monday April 8, 2024 (7:00 PM)
Location: Rogers Free Library - 525 Hope Street, Bristol RI
2022-2023 Distinguished Visiting Author - Calvin Baker
Time: Monday April 3, 2023 (7:00 PM)
Location: Rogers Free Library - 525 Hope Street, Bristol RI
Distinguished Visiting Author - Sigrid Nunez
Time: Friday April 1, 2022 7:00PM
Location: Rogers Free Library - 525 Hope Street, Bristol RI
Distinguished Visiting Author - Adam Haslett
Date: Monday, March 22, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Virtual
Distinguished Visiting Author - Sigrid Nunez
Time: Monday April 6, 2020 7:00PM
Location: Rogers Free Library - 525 Hope Street, Bristol RI
David Abrams is the author of the novels Brave Deeds (Grove/Atlantic, 2017) and Fobbit (Grove/Atlantic, 2012), a comedy about the Iraq War which Publishers Weekly called 鈥渁n instant classic鈥 and named a Top 10 Pick for Literary Fiction in Fall 2012. Fobbit was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, an Indie Next pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and a finalist for the L.A. Times鈥 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Abrams鈥 short stories have appeared in several anthologies, including Montana Noir (Akashic Books, 2017), Fire and Forget (Da Capo Press, 2013), and Watchlist (O/R Books, 2015). His stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, The New York Times, Glimmer Train Stories, Narrative, and many other publications. He earned a BA in English from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He lives in Butte, Montana with his wife. His blog, The Quivering Pen, can be found at:
Date: Monday, April 15, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Rogers Free Library
Student Fellows:
Nicole Andreson
Alexis den Boggende
Hannah Little
Adrienne Wooster
Student Fellows:
Kaitlin Della Rocca
Alexis den Boggende
Olivia Fritz鈥
Kerlie Merizier
Brittany Parziale
Adrienne Wooster
Student Fellows:
Tori Bodozian
Courtney Danforth
Alexis den Boggende
Colin Gallagher
Jennifer Iacobino
Katie Lowerre鈥
Kevin Marchand
Stephanie Nisbet
Student Fellows:
Leah Catania
Caitlin Holton
Katie Lowerre
Fiona Schlageter
Student Fellows:
Rebecca Abitz
Mackenzie Brennan
Leah Catania鈥
Reina Laaman
Nicole Sabatino
Chelsea Silva