Event Details
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!
This event will be on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, at 7:00 PM at The Cabin.
About the Writers
Kim Cross is a New York Times best-selling author, journalist, and historian known for cinematic scenes, page-turning narratives, and character-driven stories that guide readers through some complex, nuanced issue. Her first book, What Stands in a Storm, was one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2015 and a finalist in the GoodReads Choice Awards. Her most recent book, In Light of All Darkness, was an Edgar Award finalist and winner of the Truman Capote Prize for Distinguished Work of Non-Fiction. Cross teaches feature writing for Harvard Extension School’s graduate program in journalism, the Larry McMurtry Literary Center in Archer City, Texas, and the Sawtooth Writing Retreat in Idaho. Find her at kimhcross.com, @kimhcross, or writing at Oldspeak in Garden City.
Don Zancanella is the author of three novels: CONCORD, A STORM IN THE STARS, and ANIMALS OF THE ALPINE FRONT. He received the John S. Simmons/Iowa Short Fiction Award for his book WESTERN ELECTRIC and has won an O.Henry Prize. Zancanella was born in Laramie, Wyoming, and has lived in Virginia, Colorado, Missouri, and New Mexico, where he taught at the University of New Mexico for nearly three decades. He lives in southeast Boise with his wife and their dogs.
Kirkus Reviews calls Mitch Wieland’s upcoming novel, The Ghosts of Okuma, “A strange, beautiful, and unexpected exploration of the fallout of family tragedy” (starred review). The novel was also named a Kirkus Best Indie Book for March. Named Idaho Book of the Year, his second novel, God's Dogs, was a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Optioned for a film, Wieland’s first novel, Willy Slater’s Lane, was awarded starred reviews in Publisher’s Weeklyand Booklist. His short stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Best of the West, The Yale Review, and two dozen other publications. He’s been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the Idaho Commission on the Arts, and the Alexa Rose Foundation. Wieland teaches in the MFA and BFA programs in creative writing at Boise State. He is the founding editor of The Idaho Review.
Cost
Free admission, all ages welcome!