INTIMATE WRITING WORKSHOPS WITH A FOCUS ON CRAFT
SAVE THE DATE: July 24-29, 2022, at the Napa campus of Napa Valley College
Applications are open! February 28 – May 2, 2022
The 2022 conference will be held in-person on the campus of Napa Valley College in Napa, CA. Applications will open Monday, February 28, and close Monday, May 2.
Please review our 2022 COVID-19 Protocols prior to applying.
We’re proud to announce 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
2021 Faculty Spotlight: Joan Silber
Joan Silber has authored nine books of fiction, including Secrets of Happiness (2021), Improvement (2017), winner of The National Book [...]
2021 Faculty Spotlight: Robert Hass
This summer we are honored to have U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus, and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, critic and translator, Robert [...]
2021 Faculty Spotlight: Victoria Chang
One of the breakout poetry books of 2020, Victoria Chang’s OBIT (Copper Canyon) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, [...]
Key Dates
February 28 – May 2, 2022:
- 2022 applications open
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.”
