Thank you for a great SVWC 2025!
See you next year . . . Saturday, July 18 to Monday, July 20, 2026. Did you miss a talk or have one you want to share? Our 2025 livestreaming videos have already aired, but you can head over to our digital media library for select video and audio recordings from the 2025 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. While you’re there, check out our expansive library of digital media, including our very own Beyond the Page podcast!
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It is one of SVWC’s foremost goals to make the Conference and its content as accessible as possible, especially to students, teachers, and our local community. We have opened our doors each year, both virtually and in-person, with free Pavilion lawn talks, free livestreaming, free talks at The Community Library, as well as free online audio and video recordings (including our very own podcast) in our digital media library. This year, we are also offering Special Series Pavilion Passes and a Live Watch Party in downtown Ketchum. We invite you to join in and get inspired. For all the ways you can get involved for free, visit svwc.com/free.
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New stories, fresh voices—it’s time for the 20th season of Conversations From the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference on Idaho Public Television! This year’s interviews, which air Saturday nights at 6:30 PM (MTN) and Sunday mornings at 11 AM (MTN) this November, include a National Book Award winner and a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. If you miss the airing, you can catch them at idahoptv.org/svwc. @PBS @idahoptv @createidahoptv
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Nov. 1 & 2: Ocean Vuong (@ocean_vuong)
Nov. 8 & 9: Andre Dubus III
Nov. 15 & 16: Wright Thompson (@wrightthompsonbooks)
Nov. 22 & 23: Colum McCann (@colummccann.author)
📸 : Troy Shreve/Idaho Public Television (@idahoptv)
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“Sun Valley really rejuvenated us in so many ways, tangible and otherwise. And personally, as a writer, it felt miraculous and life-affirming.”
– Nayantara Roy, SVWC 2025 Presenter & New Voices Fellow
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Andre Dubus III
Max Boot
Edward Luce
Ruth Reichl
Evan Osnos
Jonathan Blitzer
Carl Hiaasen
Todd S. Purdum
Salman Rushdie
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Oren Cass
Dan Jones
Meenakshi Ahamed
Liz Moore
Admiral James Stavridis
Abraham Verghese
Vivek H. Murthy, MD
Safiya Sinclair
Griffin Dunne
Nayantara Roy
Erling Kagge
Colum McCann
Sonia Purnell
Ocean Vuong
Yael van der Wouden
Theodore H. Schwartz
Sloane Crosley
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Wright Thompson
Clara Bingham
The Improvised Shakespeare Company