INTIMATE WRITING WORKSHOPS WITH A FOCUS ON CRAFT
READINGS AND CRAFT TALKS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Thank you to our faculty, participants, and community for a wonderful 2023 conference.
STAY TUNED for 2024 dates, coming soon!
The 2024 conference will be held in-person at Napa Valley College in Napa, CA.
2024 DATES AND FACULTY TO BE ANNOUNCED IN THE COMING WEEKS
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.
News
2023 Special Guest Spotlight: Katie Farris
Katie Farris is a poet, writer of hybrid forms, and translator. She is the author of Standing in the Forest [...]
2023 Special Guest Spotlight: Caroline Goodwin
Caroline Goodwin moved from Sitka, Alaska to the San Francisco Area to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in [...]
2023 Faculty Spotlight: Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips is the author of 16 books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (Farrar, [...]
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.”
“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.”