Come join The Cabin’s semi-annual Literary Trivia night at White Dog Brewing! Whether you’re a reader of fiction or nonfiction, sci-fi, fantasy, romantasy, or classic literature, come test your wits against fellow trivia and lit lovers for the chance to win books, swag, and free passes to future Cabin events! Don’t forget your costumes, there may be some prizes for best costume!

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Natalie Disney, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

After years of dreaming, planning, and building, we're opening the doors to our newly renovated home—and we want you to be part of the celebration. Join us for the public grand opening of The Cabin, our annual member meeting, and an evening of stories, community, and celebration.

Mega-bestselling author of The Fault in our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and many others, kicks off Readings & Conversations to talk about his forthcoming book - his first-ever novel written for adults. 

Includes a hardcover copy of Green’s forthcoming novel, Hollywood, Ending!

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Heidi Kraay, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

Whether developing a novel idea from scratch or finetuning a manuscript for submission - this workshop will give you the tools to sharpen and shape your novel into an engaging story.

Join Boise City Writers-in-Residence Kim Cross and Dan Zancanella, along with Idaho Writer-in-Residence Mitch Wieland, for an evening of readings and conversation. Hear excerpts from their work and learn about their experiences as writers-in-residence during a lively panel discussion. Free admission, all ages welcome—plus drinks, pizza, and patio seating at Lost Grove!

Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards.

A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.

I like collecting statements other writers have made about writing. Sometimes they inspire me, sometimes they make me rethink my practices, and sometimes they annoy me, but I almost always find them thought-provoking.

In this workshop we’ll look at a number of remarks made by various writers (often very famous ones) and consider how they might help us think about our own work.

The Cabin will host Danny Caine, author of How to Defend Books and Why, at our annual Open Books, Open Minds fundraiser celebrating the freedom to read and the power of stories. This inspiring evening supports The Cabin’s work to connect readers and writers, expand access to books and ideas, and champion a vibrant literary community in Idaho.

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Natalie Disney, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Heidi Kraay, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

Join us for a celebration of Writers in the Attic, our annual contest and publication designed for Idaho writers, both emerging and established, to publish work related to a one-word theme. With submissions blind-judged by a local writer of acclaim, selected poems and fiction are published in a yearly anthology.

I love revising because it’s when my usually terrible first drafts start to become something I can be proud of. In this workshop I’ll share (and we’ll try using) a few of the methods I employ to make revision seem not only possible but genuinely (kind of) enjoyable.

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Natalie Disney, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Heidi Kraay, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

Very short stories (and sometimes essays)—often called flash fiction—are fun to write because you can finish a piece of writing that feels satisfyingly complete in a limited amount of time. In this workshop we’ll all write one or two brief pieces that will be ready (or almost ready) to share with the world by the time the workshop ends.

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Natalie Disney, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Heidi Kraay, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

Books written for young readers often have characteristics all writers strive for: concision, clarity, immediacy, verve. For this workshop we’ll use several works written for children as models for writing.

(Note: This isn’t workshop about writing for children, but rather a workshop about how children’s books can help us think about all kinds of writing.)

At The Cabin, we believe that access to books—and the freedom to choose what we read—is essential to a healthy, informed, and empathetic community. Through the Read Freely Project, we partner with Rediscovered Books to share challenged books with readers across Idaho and champion the right to read freely.

Join us on June 23 for our 2026 Read Freely Kick-Off Event at The Cabin. Be among the first to see our newly renovated space, take a building tour, learn about volunteer opportunities, and help us unveil this year's Read Freely book selections. We'll also have family-friendly activities, raffle prizes, and opportunities to support the project as we work together to defend the freedom to read.

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Natalie Disney, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Heidi Kraay, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, celebrated author of the international phenomenon, Braiding Sweetgrass, shares what she’s learned about reciprocal relationships in the natural world, from both a scientific and an indigenous perspective.

RESCHEDULED: This has event has been rescheduled to Thursday, May 28.

This event is part of The Cabin’s 2025-26 Readings & Conversations series.

Join critically-acclaimed novelist and “master of literary suspense,” Chris Bohjalian, as he closes out the season with a discussion on his life, work, and how storytelling can change the world.

This event is part of The Cabin’s 2025-26 Readings & Conversations series.

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at the Cabin and the 3rd Tuesday of the month will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Natalie Disney, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

There’s nothing quite like using words to create a world that didn’t exist before. In this workshop we’ll do some experiments with fiction writing that demonstrate how invented characters can quickly begin to take on a life of their own.

Pack up your lawn chairs and blankets, and join us for a student reading of poetry and prose to celebrate the publication of CAMBIA, The Cabin's annual anthology of selected works from our Writers In the Schools program (WITS).

Student authors will receive a complimentary copy of the anthology and have the opportunity to read their published work aloud.

Teachers, families, and friends welcome!

Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. This workshop will take place online via Zoom. It is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Heidi Kraay, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

Come join The Cabin’s semi-annual Literary Trivia night at White Dog Brewing! Whether you’re a reader of fiction or nonfiction, sci-fi, fantasy, romantasy, or classic literature, come test your wits against fellow trivia and lit lovers for the chance to win books, swag, and free passes to future Cabin events!