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.

Naomi Shihab Nye

W. S. Merwin

Thomas McGuane

Bryan Stevenson

Juliette Kayyem

Van Gordon Sauter

Tom Brokaw

Peter Matthiessen

Justice Stephen Breyer

Anna Quindlen

E. O. Wilson

Judith Freeman

Alexandra Fuller

Thomas Friedman

Sandra Day O’Connor

Rick Atkinson

Calvin Trillin

Jessica Yu

David McCullough

Thomas Cahill

Ethan Canin

Salman Rushdie

David Brooks

Ian McEwan

Liaquat Ahamed

Robert Gates

Colson Whitehead

Dave Barry

Mary Karr

Dave Eggers

Maira Kalman

Karl Fleming

Sally Bedell Smith

Jeffrey Brown

Simon Winchester

A. Scott Berg

Billy Collins

John Burnham Schwartz

Robert Caro

Firoozeh Dumas

Ayad Akhtar

William Styron

Strobe Talbott

Alexander McCall Smith

Abraham Verghese

Richard Ford

David Halberstam

Anne Taylor Fleming

Mitch Albom

Isabel Wilkerson

Edwidge Danticat

Frank McCourt

Anthony Doerr

John Lewis

Mark Salzman

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Annette Gordon-Reed

John Lithgow

Sharon Olds

Ridley Pearson

Anne Enright

Anne Lamott

Craig Johnson

Walter Isaacson

Michael Ondaatje
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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