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.
Thirty years ago, the founders of the Sun Valley Writers’pinab
Conference sat around a kitchen table and dreamt up what wouldpin up kz
become today’s premier literary conference. Over the last three decades,казино онлайн на деньги
more than 500 poets, playwrights, historians, novelists, journalists, musicians, and more have graced the stage at SVWC.pin up вход
We hope you will join us as we celebrate this momentous occasion. most bet
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Did you know that when you buy books at our on-site bookstore tent, you are funding scholarships for budding writers? All of the proceeds from our bookstore tent go to fund the Boise State University`s Readers & Writers Scholarship Fund. In 2025, this scholarship, which encourages intellectual growth for readers and writers in higher education, brought Lewis Millholland and Charles Pineda to SVWC—two of our talented 2025 Writing Fellows. Thanks to BSU for operating our bookstore each year and thank YOU for supporting the literary arts with your book purchases! @boisestateuniversity
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We are pleased to announce that documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (@kenlburns) will receive our Writer in the World Prize at the 2026 Sun Valley Writers` Conference! His work fuses narrative mastery with moral imagination, deepening our understanding of the world and our place in it.
From the award-winning 1990 documentary, “The Civil War,” to “The American Revolution,” premiering November 16 on PBS, Burns, perhaps more than any other storyteller, has shaped how we see our national story—offering the richest possible ground for reflection as we mark our country’s 250th anniversary.
Burns will be receiving his award and giving a presentation at SVWC 2026, happening July 18-20. Stay tuned for more information about how to get involved.
Ruth Reichl, one of our best-known and most well-loved food writers, is the author of five memoirs, including Tender at the Bone and Save Me the Plums. She is also a captivating novelist, and, as you might imagine, her fiction is full of many sensory pleasures. In her delightful new book, the protagonist Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading “Go to Paris.” But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a traumatic childhood has confined her to the strict routines of her comfort zone. Reichl talked to fellow food writer Aleksandra Crapanzano about this novel that celebrates the city they both adore and the many reasons for living deliciously, taking chances, and finding your true home. Watch the full talk now, for free, at svwc.com/video. LINK IN BIO.
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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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Colum McCann
Ocean Vuong
Sonia Purnell
Oren Cass
Admiral James Stavridis
Ruth Reichl
Carl Hiaasen
Liz Moore
Sloane Crosley
Theodore H. Schwartz
Abraham Verghese
Griffin Dunne
Edward Luce
Nayantara Roy
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
Andre Dubus III
Safiya Sinclair
Meenakshi Ahamed
Paola Ramos
Clara Bingham
Dan Jones
Salman Rushdie
Erling Kagge
Jonathan Blitzer
Max Boot
Vivek H. Murthy, MD
Todd S. Purdum
Wright Thompson
Evan Osnos
Yael van der Wouden
Doris Kearns Goodwin
