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.

A. Scott Berg

Judith Freeman

Ayad Akhtar

David Brooks

Dave Barry

Richard Ford

Anne Enright

Alexander McCall Smith

Mitch Albom

E. O. Wilson

Bryan Stevenson

Sally Bedell Smith

Firoozeh Dumas

Ian McEwan

Anna Quindlen

Annette Gordon-Reed

Mary Karr

Salman Rushdie

Sharon Olds

Walter Isaacson

Abraham Verghese

Liaquat Ahamed

Michael Ondaatje

Mark Salzman

David Halberstam

Calvin Trillin

Naomi Shihab Nye

Peter Matthiessen

Thomas Cahill

Anne Lamott

Tom Brokaw

Doris Kearns Goodwin

David McCullough

Sandra Day O’Connor

Alexandra Fuller

Anthony Doerr

Karl Fleming

Robert Gates

Edwidge Danticat

Justice Stephen Breyer

Jeffrey Brown

Billy Collins

Robert Caro

Ridley Pearson

Juliette Kayyem

Thomas Friedman

Frank McCourt

Anne Taylor Fleming

John Lewis

Jessica Yu

John Burnham Schwartz

W. S. Merwin

Jeffrey Toobin

Colson Whitehead

Craig Johnson

Maira Kalman

Strobe Talbott

Dave Eggers

William Styron

Isabel Wilkerson

Ethan Canin

Van Gordon Sauter

John Lithgow

Rick Atkinson

Simon Winchester

Thomas McGuane
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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