Workshops, Readings, Gatherings
The Cabin hosts writing instruction, classes, drop-in writing workshops, author readings, and other activities and events. Most are held at our historic log home on Capitol Boulevard.
On the coasts of Idaho
The Coasts of Idaho is a triennial, one hour reading at The Cabin, April 10, 7:00 PM, by three out-of-state-writers (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction), all of whom are also judges for the Literature Fellowships awarded by the Idaho Commission on the Arts. This year featured writers are:
Brian Doyle, editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland (winner of four consecutive gold medals as the finest small-circulation university magazine in the U. S.) is the author of nine books, among them Leaping: Revelations & Epiphanies and The Wet Engine. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays, and in Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Harper's, Gourmet, Orion, Sydney Morning Herald, and the Times of London. He is also an essayist for Eureka Street magazine and The Age newspaper, both in Melbourne, Australia. His novel, Mink River, will be published by OSU Press in fall 2010.
Michele Glazer, poet, holds an MFA from University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop and is associate professor and director of creative writing at Portland State University. She is author of Aggregate of Disturbances (Iowa, 2004) and It is Hard to Look at What We Came to Think We’d Come to See (Pittsburgh, 1997). Her third collection is forthcoming from Iowa University Press in 2010. Glazer’s work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in publications such as Harvard Review and Boston Review. She held the Richard Hugo Chair in Poetry at University of Montana, 2006; Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, 2006; and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, 1997.
Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland. Her novel, The Jump-Off Creek, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction and a winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award. The Dazzle of Day was named a New York Times Notable Book and was awarded the PEN Center West Fiction Prize. Wild Life won the James Tiptree Award and was chosen as the selection for “If All Seattle Read the Same Book.” She is also a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award. The Hearts of Horses, her most recent novel, was released in 2007 and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in fiction.
Sponsored by Idaho Commission on the Arts, NEA, and WESTAF
New teachers for Drop-In Writing Workshop
Malia Collins and Adrian Kien will be sharing the teaching roles for the Drop-In Writing workshop. They look forward to working with participants who have enjoyed Norman Weinstein's writing leadership in the Drop-In classes over the years. Both are experienced professional writers and teachers who currently work with students in The Cabin's award-winning Writers in the Schools program and have taught in the idaho writing camps. All are welcome to attend this informal community workshop for writers at all levels. Bring pen and paper and a willingness to explore. The workshops are held the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 6:30 PM at The Cabin. Free.
