INTIMATE WRITING WORKSHOPS WITH A FOCUS ON CRAFT
READINGS AND CRAFT TALKS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
July 24-29, 2022, at the Napa campus of Napa Valley College
The 2022 conference will be held in-person at Napa Valley College in Napa, CA.
Click here for a detailed schedule of public events.
Find a typical daily participant schedule here.
Meet Our 2022 Faculty!
POETRY: Jane Hirshfield – Major Jackson – Dana Levin – Patricia Smith
FICTION: Kevin Brockmeier – Lan Samantha Chang – Michelle Huneven – ZZ Packer
POETRY TRANSLATION: Forrest Gander
Napa, CA
Since 1981, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference has provided literary fellowship and a craft-focused experience among the foothills and vineyards that have made this region famous.
News
2022 Faculty Spotlight: Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Absurd Man (Norton, 2021). As Mandana Chaffa [...]
2022 Faculty Spotlight: Kevin Brockmeier
Kevin Brockmeier, who will be returning this summer as fiction faculty at the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, writes novels, short [...]
2022 Faculty Spotlight: Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith’s most recent book, Incendiary Art (TriQuarterly, 2017), won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the NAACP Image Award, and [...]
Key Dates
May 2, 2022
- 2022 applications closed
June 2022 – first week
- Notification of acceptance
July 24 – 29, 2022:
- 41st-anniversary conference – workshops, lectures & readings
Testimonials
“The spirit of Napa is one of generosity and support, with little focus given to professionalization, which often kills inspiration. I keep coming back to the conference each year because I want to turn my attention entirely to the study and to the creation of poetry, and unlike so many other conferences, Napa stands for that.”
“The conference fosters an amazing literary community, and I’m still in touch with classmates from our workshop. I deeply appreciate how my time at the conference shaped my development as a writer.”
“The support I received from everyone, teacher, students, staff, was the wind I needed to believe my words could fly. In a very literal way, the time and space provided by the conference helped me plant the seeds to what would become a book seven years later.”
