Bread Loaf Writers Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont continues to operate, amid a Covid-19 outbreak that has resulted in 26 cases so far (over 10 percent of its 220 participants). Participants with Covid have been sent home. The organizers wrote in an email to attendees, shared online by a participant that contracted Covid, that the number of cases “seems to be leveling off.” The conference spans ten days. Organizers also explain a lack of daily communication about the number of cases, writing, “In our conversations with Middlebury’s trusted medical advisors, we were strongly urged to turn the emphasis away […]
