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Join Us at #AWP19 in Portland

The Napa Valley Writers’ Conference will be an exhibitor and presenter at the 2019 Association of Writing Programs Conference in Portland, Oregon, March 27-30, 2019.   Panels The writers’ conference will anchor three panels at AWP: The Art of the Craft TalkThursday, March 28, 4:30-5:15 p.m.B117-119, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1Writers are asked to give […]

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Meet the 2019 faculty!

Applications are now open for the 39th conference will be held July 28 – August 2, 2019. The faculty: Poetry: Eavan Boland, Forrest Gander, Jane Hirshfield, Major Jackson Fiction: Lan Samantha Chang, Ryan Harty, Mitchell S. Jackson, Julie Orringer NEW! Translation: Howard Norman You may read faculty bios and learn more about the application process. […]

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New for 2019: Translation Workshop

We’re delighted to present a new literary translation workshop in poetry and prose as part of our 39th conference, July 28 to August 2, 2019. Join us in an exploration of the challenges and insights of translating poetry or prose—either your own work or that of an author you admire—from another language into English. The […]

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Meet the 2018 faculty: Howard Norman

Howard Norman is an award-winning author and educator whose books have been translated into 12 languages. He has written seven novels: My Darling Detective (2017), Next Life Might be Kinder (2014), What is Left the Daughter (2010), Devotion (2007), The Haunting of L (2002), The Museum Guard (1998), The Bird Artist (1994), and The Northern […]

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Meet the 2018 faculty: Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson has authored the novels Loving Day (2015), Pym (2011), Hunting in Harlem (2003), Drop (2000), the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot (2007), and comic books Incognegro (2008) and Dark Rain (2010). The long list of awards and recognitions Johnson has received includes: the American Book Award, the United States Artist James Baldwin […]

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Meet the 2018 faculty: Lauren Groff

Acclaimed author Lauren Groff has three novels to her name: Fates and Furies (2015), Arcadia (2012), and The Monsters of Templeton (2008), and has been featured in publications such as the New Yorker, the Atlantic, American Short Fiction, Harper’s Tin House, and One Story. She has also written two collections of short stories: Florida (2018) […]

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Meet the 2018 faculty: Lan Samantha Chang

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost (2010), Inheritance (2004), and Hunger (1998). In addition to being translated into nine languages, her works have also appeared in Ploughshares, The Atlantic, and twice chosen for Best American Short Stories. Chang’s work was nominated for the PEN Center USA West Award […]

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Meet the 2018 faculty: Jane Mead

Jane Mead is an award-winning poet, whose writing has appeared in multiple anthologies and magazines. She has published five collections of poetry: World of Made and Unmade (2016), Money Money Money Water Water Water (2014), The Usable Field (2008), The House of Poured-Out Waters (2001), and The Lord and the General Din of the World (1996). […]

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Meet the 2018 faculty: Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips, referred to as “one of America’s most original, influential, and productive of lyric poets,” has authored 14 books of poetry and several works of criticism and translation. His recent poetry collections include: Wild is the Wind (2018), Reconnaissance (2015), Silverchest (2013), Double Shadow (2011), and Speak Low (2009). His prose works include: The […]

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Meet the 2018 faculty: Camille T. Dungy

Camille Dungy has authored four collections of poetry: Trophic Cascade (2017), Smith Blue (2011), Suck on the Marrow, and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (2006). Her most recent work is a collection of essays called Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (2017). Dungy edited Black […]

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