BY KAREN BOSSICK
Passes for the 2023 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 16.
They will be sold on a first-come, first served basis from the SVWC website at https://svwc.com/attend.. Passes have sold out in a matter of minutes in years past.
Two passes will be offered for the conference, which runs Saturday, July 22, through Monday, July 24, at Sun Valley Resort:
- A full conference pass costs $1,100.
- A half-price Next Generation Pass for those 35 and under costs $550.
Both passes provide access to all Pavilion talks, intimate breakout sessions, book signings, breakfasts, lunches and the closing reception on the Sun Valley Pavilion lawn.
If passes sell out, sign-ups for a waiting list will open. There also will be an opportunity to purchase single event tickets for $35 each, attend free Pavilion lawn talks and livestream some of the presentations for free. Those opportunities will be announced closer to the conference dates.
In addition, the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference will partner again with The Community Library to offer a free Community Speaker Series in July. Details will be released later.
The 2023 Sun Valley Writers Conference will field the strongest literary list its ever had, with five Pulitzer Prize winners, two National Book Award finalists, six New York Times bestsellers and a former U.S. Poet Laureate.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum plans to explain why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of nationalist movements. Funny man Dave Barry, a Miami humor columnist who has kept Writers Conference attendees in stitches in the past, will tell what it’s actually like to actually live in Florida.
Bestselling author and science writer Ed Yong will discuss the extraordinary sensory world of other animals. And Salvadoran poet Javier Zamora will share his heart-wrenching story of making a 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States by himself when he was only 9.
And that’s just for starters…