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 #BeyondthePage podcast episode! Margaret Atwood—author of more than 60 books in almost every conceivable genre, recipient of more than 100 literary prizes—is a global icon. Like Kafka and Orwell before her, she and her writing have become part of the public discourse, wherever we live and whatever our age. Her intelligence is that vital and exacting, her wit that mischievous, her concerns – feminism, environmentalism, dystopian societies – that are urgently relevant. The author is fond of quoting a Polish resistance fighter from the Second World War who once told her: “Pray that you will never have the occasion to be a hero.” As it’s turned out, in her long and singular literary career, Margaret Atwood has indeed had the occasion to be a hero, numerous times, and always risen to the moment. After receiving the 2024 Sun Valley Writers Conference Writer in the World Prize, she spoke to Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ayad Akhtar about her life, her work, and some of the wonders and terrors of the world we are living in.
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“SVWC is unquestionably the best writers conference I have ever attended.”
– Rebecca Donner, SVWC 2022 Presenter
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Nayantara Roy

Andre Dubus III

Oren Cass

Ocean Vuong

The Improvised Shakespeare Company

Wright Thompson

Dan Jones

Todd S. Purdum

Paola Ramos

Ruth Reichl

Salman Rushdie

Liz Moore

Colum McCann

Meenakshi Ahamed

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Yael van der Wouden

Abraham Verghese

Vivek H. Murthy, MD

Edward Luce

Sonia Purnell

Evan Osnos

Erling Kagge

Safiya Sinclair

Sloane Crosley

Griffin Dunne

Theodore H. Schwartz

Jonathan Blitzer

Admiral James Stavridis

Clara Bingham

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Max Boot
