New Voices Fellowship
Bringing fresh perspectives and rising young stars to SVWC
In a literary conference filled with recognizable and established authors, the New Voices Fellowship aims to showcase some of the country’s most exciting new talent—young, award-winning writers whose debut work is both original and daring.
This program was inaugurated in 2022, thanks to the support of the Grossman Family Foundation (in honor of Peggy Grossman), bringing fresh voices and perspectives into the SVWC fold.
This year, we look forward to welcoming New Voices Fellows Shelley Read and Virginia Evans to the 2026 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. As presenters, they will speak about their choice to become writers—how daunting, how irrefutable that calling—and read from their highly-acclaimed debut novels. Don’t miss their talk July 18-20, 2026 and keep an eye on these rising stars in the years ahead.
PAST NEW VOICES FELLOWS
2025
Nayantara Roy & Yael van der Wouden
Listen to their 2025 talk on our audio page
2024
Kaveh Akbar & Vinson Cunningham
Listen to their 2024 talk on our audio page
2023
Jonathan Escoffery & Sarah Thankam Mathews
Listen to their 2023 talk on our audio page
2022
Sanaë Lemoine, Kalani Pickhart, & Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Listen to their 2022 talk on our audio page