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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We see you, SVWC donors! And we couldn`t do it without you... Big thanks to this generous group of supporters who make it all possible. Some have been with us since the very beginning, over 30 years... an extra special thanks to you 🙏
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In case you missed it, Salman Rushdie (@salman.rushdie) was awarded the Sun Valley Writers` Conference Writer in the World Prize for 2025! At this year’s Conference, this special surprise speaker was in conversation with National Book Award-winning author (and good friend) Colum McCann (@colummccann.author). You can watch the talk now, for free, at svwc.com/video.
The author of 23 fiction and nonfiction books, Rushdie’s name has long been recognized around the world for his brilliant writing and his unfailing courage in defending freedom of speech, sometimes at the risk of his own safety. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, is a deeply personal account of enduring and surviving an attempt on his life in August of 2022. It is a love story to his wife, Eliza, and all the doctors and physical therapists who helped him recover, along with his global community of readers and fellow writers. We honor Rushdie above all for his amazing body of work, his indelible works of fiction and nonfiction, and for continuing to write them in the face of immeasurable opposition and danger.
The Writer in the World Prize (svwc.com/witw) recognizes a writer whose life’s work embodies a rare combination of literary talent and moral imagination, helping us better understand the world and our place in it. Past recipients include Barry Lopez in 2021, Abraham Verghese in 2023, and Margaret Atwood in 2024.
📸 : @rayjgadd
Did you know that 100% of the proceeds from our on-site bookstore, operated by @boisestatebroncoshop, go to fund Boise State University writing scholarships and programs? This year, they raised an incredible $120,000 for their students! If you bought a book at our bookstore at #SVWC2025, you can feel good knowing that it will go to a future budding writer, bent over a book and hard at work somewhere.
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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
2025 Presenters
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Oren Cass
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Evan Osnos
Safiya Sinclair
Todd S. Purdum
Ruth Reichl
Jonathan Blitzer
Vivek H. Murthy, MD
Colum McCann
Paola Ramos
Liz Moore
Abraham Verghese
Sonia Purnell
Dan Jones
Edward Luce
Clara Bingham
Admiral James Stavridis
Carl Hiaasen
Erling Kagge
Andre Dubus III
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
Sloane Crosley
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Max Boot
Yael van der Wouden
Nayantara Roy
Griffin Dunne
Meenakshi Ahamed
Theodore H. Schwartz
Salman Rushdie
Wright Thompson
