Witness your favorite writers, neighbors, and cultural icons share their writing, process, and wisdom on stages of all sizes—from The Cabin to the Egyptian Theatre to the Library! and even your own home.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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, Heidi Kraay, 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, Natalie Disney, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.
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, Heidi Kraay, 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, Natalie Disney, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
From Pulitzer-decorated authors, Edward R. Murrow-winning journalists, syndicated NPR hosts, and more, catch some of today’s leading thinkers in-person.
From presentations by legendary travel writers to explorations of different worlds by fantasy bestsellers to intimate talks by literary favorites, The Cabin Presents features a diverse lineup of events that matches talented authors to loyal readers.
