The Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, sponsored and hosted by Napa Valley College, is now in its 31st year as one of the nation’s most prestigious summer writing programs.
The conference runs from July 24 through July 29 at the Upper Valley Campus in St. Helena.
We are in serious need of community housing hosts for this year's conference.
Priority for community housing is given to scholarship recipients who otherwise would be unable to afford the conference. Conference attendees are responsible for their own transportation and food beyond conference-supplied meals. Moreover, they’re individually screened and matched to potential hosts. Residents of Napa, Yountville, St. Helena, and the surrounding area who can offer a spare room and bathroom for an out-of-town conference attendee to use during the conference week will gain free admission to eight daytime lectures and four evening readings featuring conference faculty members – a $250 value.
This year's faculty includes Adam Haslett, author of the critically-acclaimed novel Union Atlantic (hailed by the New York Times as "the first great novel of the 21st century"), and Jane Hirshfield, whose Given Sugar, Given Salt was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Fiction faculty also includes Daniel Alarcón, author of Lost City Radio; Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and author of All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost; and Michelle Huneven, author of Blame, Jamesland and Round Rock. Poetry faculty include Major Jackson, whose Holding Company was released in 2010; D.A. Powell, whose collections Chronic and Cocktails were both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and David St. John, the author of nine books of poetry, most recently The Face: A Novella in Verse.
To volunteer as a community host, contact Jeannie Kim, housing coordinator, by phone at 707.963.3200 or via email at jeanniekim@mac.com<mailto:jeanniekim@mac.com>. For further conference information, visit napawritersconf.org or facebook.com/napawritersconference.