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

APPLICATIONS to the 2023 conference are now closed.

The 2023 conference will be held in-person at Napa Valley College in Napa, CA.

2023 SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC EVENTS

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

Poetry Special Guests

Caroline Goodwin & Katie Farris

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.

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Key Dates

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.”

Blas Falconer, Author of Forgive the Body This Failure, The Foundling Wheel, and A Question of Gravity and Light

“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.”

Vanessa Hua, Author of Deceit and Other Possibilities and A River of Stars

“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.”

Javier Zamora, Author of Unaccompanied

The Napa Valley Writers’ Conference is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization.

We depend on contributions for a full 35% of our operating budget.

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