Julia Bracket Accepted to Middlebury College Young Writer’s Conference

Souhegan High School junior, Julia Brackett, has been accepted to the prestigious Breadloaf Young Writer’s Conference on the Breadloaf campus of Middlebury College. Gwen Jalbert Landeck was also previously accepted.

A maximum of two students from each high school are accepted to the program each year. Students from around the country participate.

The Young Writers’ Conference includes professional author readings, writing for extended sessions with a single author, and one-on-one conferences with authors.

“Generous amounts of time are planned for students to work on their own manuscripts in an isolated, natural setting where writers since Robert Frost’s time have gathered to be part of a literary community,” according to Breadloaf.

Excerpt from “Satan’s Love,” by Julia Brackett

But there are some loves that

I believe were created by the Devil.

Sinful love, fires burning,

burning

lust, burning pain;

painful love, violent love.

“Never-leave-my-side” love.

And God’s all-holy union

can’t compete with this.

This is the melting hearts

of teenage lovers, the pulsating beat,

the crawling skin;

the longing stares of piercing eyes, smirking mouth…

Lips of satin, fingers of velvet.

Holding hands, holding hearts,

holding lives so tightly as if

to say “you’re all I need—”