INTIMATE WRITING WORKSHOPS WITH A FOCUS ON CRAFT
READINGS AND CRAFT TALKS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
July 30 – August 4, 2023, at the Napa campus of Napa Valley College
The 2023 conference will be held in-person at Napa Valley College in Napa, CA.
2023 FACULTY
Poetry
Victoria Chang – Brenda Hillman – Ilya Kaminsky – Carl Phillips
Fiction
Lan Samantha Chang – Katie Crouch – Peter Orner – Crystal Wilkinson
Poetry Translation
Robert Hass
Stay tuned for more faculty information to come!
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: Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield has long been concerned in her work with the intersections of human contemplation and the natural world in [...]
2022 Faculty Spotlight: Lan Samantha Chang
Longtime faculty member, Sam Chang’s newest novel, The Family Chao is a captivating, witty novel of three brothers, a festering [...]
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 [...]
Key Dates
December 2022
- 2023 faculty announced
February 20, 2023
- Applications open
April 17, 2023
- Applications due
July 30 – August 4, 2023:
- 42st-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.”
