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The Sun Valley Writers’ Conference at the Sun Valley Resort

August 21-24, 2009

For ticket information, please call Robin Winston at 888-655-6529.

Vartan Gregorian. Ian McEwan. Vernon Jordan. Paul Muldoon. Annette Gordon-Reed. Philip Gourevitch. Roy Blount, Jr.  Abraham Verghese. Liaquat Ahamed. Frank McCourt. W.S. Merwin. Gretchen Morgenson. Peter Duchin. Jan Morris. Mick Moloney…

The Sun Valley Writers’ Conference is celebrating its fourteenth year in a four-day gathering at the beautiful Sun Valley Resort, where prominent writers will give talks and readings to a thoughtful and engaged audience.  This summer’s program will include fiction, nonfiction, journalism, poetry, screenwriting, memoir writing, musical history, and folklore.  Among our presenters will be Booker Prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan, civil rights leader Vernon Jordan, Pulitzer Prize-winner for history Annette Gordon-Reed,  humorist Roy Blount, Jr., Carnegie Corporation President and memoirist Vartan Gregorian, The New Yorker  writer and prize-winning author Philip Gourevitch, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poets W. S. Merwin and Paul Muldoon, among many others.

The Sun Valley Writers’ Conference is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to discerning readers and writers from all over the country. It always includes scholarship students, and admits teachers and students free of charge.  One third of our funding comes from the sale of tickets. The other two thirds comes from the generosity of individuals and foundations who believe that the literary world can make a difference in the shaping of contemporary culture. Tickets include admission to all events over four days and cost $750.

Please visit our website at www.svwc.com for a complete list of writers and a conference schedule.

THE NEW ORLEANS HOT 8 will perform in the  Sun Valley Opera House Saturday, May 9th at 7:30 PM.

Tickets are available at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts  www.sunvalleycenter.org - 208.726.9491

$25 members,  $30 non members, $10 Kids under age 12

New Orleans’ own Hot 8 Brass Band has epitomized New Orleans street music for over a decade. The band plays the traditional “second line” parades, hosted each Sunday afternoon by the social aid and pleasure clubs, infusing its performances with the funk and energy that make New Orleans music loved around the world. Born and raised in New Orleans, the members of the Hot 8 Brass Band began playing together in high school. What makes the Hot 8 so special are the sounds they coax from their well-loved, well-worn horns. An evening with the Hot 8 is like no other!