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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Carl Hiaasen
Colum McCann
Max Boot
Edward Luce
Dan Jones
Erling Kagge
Claire Keegan
Paola Ramos
Ocean Vuong
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Sloane Crosley
Vivek H. Murthy, MD
Jonathan Blitzer
Admiral James Stavridis
Andre Dubus III
Liz Moore
Sonia Purnell
Abraham Verghese
Wright Thompson
Ruth Reichl
Clara Bingham
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Safiya Sinclair
Meenakshi Ahamed
Theodore H. Schwartz
Todd S. Purdum
Griffin Dunne
Evan Osnos
Yael van der Wouden
The Improvised Shakespeare Company
Nayantara Roy
Oren Cass
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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BIG NEWS!! We are pleased to announce the recipient of our 2025 Writer in the World Prize is Salman Rushdie! This surprise speaker will be giving the evening presentation at this year’s Writers` Conference on Saturday, July 19 at 5:30pm (MT) in the Sun Valley Pavilion (restricted access and special security protocols will be in place—see below for free livestreaming info).
The author of 25 fiction and nonfiction books, Rushdie 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. We honor Rushdie above all for his amazing body of work, his indelible books of fiction and nonfiction, and for continuing to write them in the face of immeasurable opposition and danger. As we will see during his conversation with his fellow novelist and great friend Colum McCann, Salman Rushdie is many remarkable things, but above all, and always, he is a writer and a teller of stories, and a master at that.
This talk will be available for free, at-home livestreaming at svwc.com/livestream for our entire SVWC community and also viewable at the Live Watch Party at The Argyros! There will be no Pavilion Lawn access and individual tickets will not be sold. The Special Series Pavilion Pass is not valid for this talk, and only 2025 Full Conference Passholders will be admitted inside the Pavilion. @salman.rushdie
We close the 2025 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference on a note of high hilarity with one of our favorite and funniest authors, Carl Hiaasen, talking about his brand-new novel Fever Beach, another classic based—where else—in his home state of Florida. He will have you from the opening sentence, when a man named Dale Figgo picks up a hitchhiker on Gus Grissom Boulevard in Tangelo Shores, Florida. Their escapades will take them deep into Florida at its most Floridian: a sun-soaked bastion of rightwing extremism, white power, greed, and corruption. Hiaasen is the author of seven novels for young readers and fifteen previous novels for adults, including Bad Monkey, recently adapted into a hit Apple series starring Vince Vaughn, and which, if you haven’t already seen it, you will certainly want to after hearing this talk.
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.
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