The 28th Napa Valley Writers’ Conference July 27—Aug 1, 2008

We’re in the final stages of preparation for the conference here in St. Helena and we’re looking forward to matching faces with the names and manuscripts we’ve been working with for the past few months.

Sunday schedule

We’ve mailed a tentative schedule for the week’s events. Check-in at the college begins at 3:45 pm on Sunday, […]

Community Housing applicants should receive email notification of their placements by the end of this week. Please contact Ann Holmes, Housing Coordinator (707-963-4851), if you don’t receive this information.

We’ve begun mailing a packet including a map, schedule, and information on arrival and the first day’s activities.

Copies of these materials will also be placed on the website.

Applicants should now have received notice of their admission status. Please get in touch with us (writecon@napavalley.edu) if you haven’t received an email notice.

Eleanor Coppola will speak about and read from her memoir, Notes on a Life, Tuesday, June 3, at Rubicon Winery in St. Helena.

Of this book, Anne Lamott said, “Like everything Coppola writes, these are richly told stories of family and film and solitude. Spanning year of creation and joy, she is a narrator you trust […]

Vanessa Hua, who attended in 2006, has won first place in the Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest for the story she worked on in ZZ Packer’s workshop.

Bryan Tso Jones (’05) won a first books competition from Bedbug Books. His book will be out this year.

Daniel Polikoff (most recently ‘07) has published his first book, […]

We’re delighted to announce the faculty for our 2008 conference.

In fiction, we’ll welcome Ron Carlson, Lan Samantha Chang, Ehud Havazelet, and Ann Packer.

In poetry, we’ll have Mark Doty, Nick Flynn, Brenda Hillman, and Claudia Rankine.