Live Watch Party at The Argyros
While both our Full Conference Passes and Special Series Pavilion Passes have sold out, there are still more ways to participate in SVWC 2025! Come join our Live Watch Party in downtown Ketchum July 19-21—we will broadcast select content directly to the theater screen at The Argyros. Passes are $25 per day. Click below to buy now or go to svwc.com/watchparty for the schedule of speakers.
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Todd S. Purdum
Max Boot
Abraham Verghese
Yael van der Wouden
Theodore H. Schwartz
Erling Kagge
Evan Osnos
Edward Luce
Colum McCann
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
Admiral James Stavridis
Nayantara Roy
Ruth Reichl
Meenakshi Ahamed
Sonia Purnell
Andre Dubus III
Carl Hiaasen
Ocean Vuong
Vivek H. Murthy, MD
Griffin Dunne
Claire Keegan
Sloane Crosley
Clara Bingham
Jonathan Blitzer
Dan Jones
Wright Thompson
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Liz Moore
Paola Ramos
Oren Cass
Safiya Sinclair
Free Events & Community Programming
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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Conference sat around a kitchen table and dreamt up what wouldpin up kz
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In works of piercing beauty and heartrending grace, in poetry and prose, Ocean Vuong has become one of his generation’s most necessary and unforgettable literary voices. Now, with The Emperor of Gladness, he returns with a bighearted second novel. One summer evening in post-industrial Connecticut, 19-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond. With his singular ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness, Vuong will discuss the novel and his writing with SVWC Literary Director John Burnham Schwartz.
This talk will be available for free lawn seating and free livestreaming! The Special Series Pavilion Pass to view this talk inside the Sun Valley Pavilion has sold out, but you can also view it at our Live Watch Party. Learn more at svwc.com/free and subscribe for updates at svwc.com/subscribe.
📸 : Tom Hines
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 8
The Library`s Donaldson Robb Family Lawn + Livestream
TONIGHT! The Community Library is thrilled to welcome acclaimed author Hampton Sides to deliver its 2025 Hemingway Distinguished Lecture. Sides is best-known for his gripping non-fiction adventure stories set in war or depicting epic expedition of discovery and exploration. Registration is currently full, but you can join the wait list or watch the livestream at https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/14406902.
(Percival Everett was originally scheduled to delivery this lecture, but his visit has now been postponed.)
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“SVWC is unquestionably the best writers conference I have ever attended.”
– Rebecca Donner, SVWC 2022 Presenter