INTIMATE WRITING WORKSHOPS WITH A FOCUS ON CRAFT
READINGS, CRAFT TALKS, AND COMMUNITY CLASSES OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sunday, July 20, to Friday, July 25, 2025
Napa Valley College, Napa, CA
APPLY MARCH 3, 2025 – April 21, 2025
2025 FACULTY
Victoria Chang – Brenda Hillman – Major Jackson – Brian Teare – Lan Samantha Chang – Mitchell S. Jackson – Margot Livesey – Sarah Thankam Mathews – Robert Hass Full faculty bios here
Poetry Special Guests: Caroline Goodwin – Didi Jackson
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
March 3, 2025 – NVWC 2025 applications open
April 21, 2025 – NVWC 2025 applications close
May 19, 2025 – 2025 acceptance notifications
July 20 – 25, 2025 – NVWC 2025 – 44th anniversary conference
- workshops, lectures & readings