SVWC 2021
Saturday, July 17 – Tuesday, July 20
Sun Valley Resort
Please stay tuned about updates for the 2021 Conference as our plans continue to take shape.
The mission of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference is to invite readers and writers into a realm of intellectual intimacy. In an annual program, anchored by recognized writers of fiction and nonfiction, readers and writers come together as a community to be educated, enlightened, challenged and inspired.
SVWC Past Presenters
Be Inspired.

Colson Whitehead

Ian McEwan

Ridley Pearson

Firoozeh Dumas

Mitch Albom

John Burnham Schwartz

A. Scott Berg

Liaquat Ahamed

Anthony Doerr

Jessica Yu

William Styron

Judith Freeman

John Lewis

Anne Lamott

Sandra Day O’Connor

Abraham Verghese

Karl Fleming

Annette Gordon-Reed

E. O. Wilson

David McCullough

Robert Caro

Mary Karr

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Sharon Olds

David Halberstam

Isabel Wilkerson

Strobe Talbott

Justice Stephen Breyer

Anna Quindlen

Mark Salzman

Salman Rushdie

David Brooks

Bryan Stevenson

Edwidge Danticat

Thomas Friedman

Alexandra Fuller

Ethan Canin

Juliette Kayyem

Walter Isaacson

Simon Winchester

Sally Bedell Smith

Anne Taylor Fleming

Craig Johnson

Richard Ford

W. S. Merwin

Peter Matthiessen

Robert Gates

Dave Barry

Anne Enright

Maira Kalman

Billy Collins

Dave Eggers

Tom Brokaw

Calvin Trillin

Jeffrey Toobin

Van Gordon Sauter

Thomas Cahill

Michael Ondaatje

Thomas McGuane

Jeffrey Brown

Frank McCourt

Alexander McCall Smith

Rick Atkinson

John Lithgow

Ayad Akhtar

Naomi Shihab Nye
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“SVWC is everything I love in one place, during one week…I find that the most unique part of the conference is its enormous heart. The conversations and interactions renew me spiritually and make me want to keep reaching, however impractical and distant the goal might be. SVWC is my church.”
– Firoozeh Dumas