2027 Presenters will be announced soon!
The Sun Valley Writers’ Conference returns to the Sun Valley Resort and Pavilion Saturday, July 17 through Monday, July 19, 2027. Stay tuned for updates and announcements in the coming months, and be sure to subscribe to our email newsletter so you don’t miss a thing.
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.
In 2026 we welcomed New Voices Fellows Shelley Read and Virginia Evans to the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. As presenters, they spoke about their choice to become writers—how daunting, how irrefutable that calling—and read from their highly-acclaimed debut novels. Be sure to 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