The Cabin’s free and open online writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM. It is hosted by writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

Write Outside the Box with Hannah Rodabaugh

When you’re struggling with what to say, sometimes the best way forward is sideways. This creative writing workshop invites you to shake up your routine and reawaken your imagination. Through playful, unexpected prompts and inspiration from today’s most innovative authors, you’ll explore new approaches to language that will help energize your writing practice. Whether you’re just beginning or have years of experience, this class offers fresh techniques sure to get you out of your creative comfort zone. This workshop is open to writers of all levels.

This workshop will take place online via Zoom.

Time: 

10:00AM-12:00PM

Location: Virtual Zoom Meeting

Dates: 

Saturday, December 6th

Hannah Rodabaugh is the author of Lost Cathedral (Cornerstone Press/University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) and four chapbooks of poetry. Her poetry is featured in The Indianapolis Review, Camas Magazine, Glassworks Magazine, Plant-Human Quarterly, The Westchester Review, Wild Roof Journal, EcoTheo Review, and Berkeley Poetry Review. She has received three grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, including a 2024 Literature Fellowship, and has twice served as an Artist-in-Residence for the National Park Service. She teaches at Boise State University, the College of Western Idaho, and The Cabin. When not writing, she volunteers for the Golden Eagle Audubon Society and collects rare desert plants from around the world.

The Cabin’s free and open online writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the third Tuesday of each month. It is hosted by writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

The Cabin’s free and open online writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the third Tuesday of each month. It is hosted by writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

How to Make A Good Draft Great with Benjamin Schwarting 

Congratulations! You’ve finished the first draft of your novel! Surely the hard part’s over, right? RIGHT?

If you’re anything like me, you’ve learned that writing the first draft was only the beginning. The purpose of this six-week workshop is to equip beginning and intermediate authors with the skills, priorities, and vision they’ll need to make a good draft great. Sessions will span the entire breadth of the writing process, including pre-writing skills (such as outlining and world-building), developmental editing tasks, how to effectively utilize alpha and beta readers, and how to polish your prose before publication or agent submission. Writers of all genres of narrative fiction are welcome.

Time: 

Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: The Cabin – 801 S Capitol Blvd

Dates: Wednesday, January, 28th

Wednesday, February, 4th

Wednesday, February, 11th

Wednesday, February, 18th

Wednesday, February, 25th

Wednesday, March, 4th

Benjamin Schwarting is a fantasy author, high school English teacher, and co-owner of Williams & Rose Publishing. Author of The Sum of Ages series, Ben’s work emphasizes writing complex fantasy cultures that highlight real-world issues of systemic oppression and social injustice. After earning his MAT, Ben has taught as an adjunct professor of Education at the College of Idaho and designed creative writing and young author’s courses for high schoolers.

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Kerri Webster

In this five week workshop, poets interested in taking their work to the next level will hone their skills via generating and workshopping new poems. This class is ideal for those who’ve participated in the Cabin’s drop-in nights, taken previous poetry workshops, or have been writing for a while and feel ready to share their work in a supportive and engaged community of like-minded poets. We’ll also discuss literary journal and book publication. Workshop limited to twelve participants.

Time: 

Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: The Cabin – 801 S Capitol Blvd

Dates:

Thursday, February 12

Thursday, February 19

Thursday, February 26

Thursday, March 5

Thursday, March 12

Kerri Webster currently serves as Writer in Residence for the State of Idaho. She is the author of four books of poetry: Lapis (Wesleyan University Press, 2022), The Trailhead (Wesleyan, 2018), Grand & Arsenal (University of Iowa, 2012), and We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone (University of Georgia, 2005). She has taught at Washington University in St. Louis and Boise State, and as a Writer in the Schools for the Cabin. The recipient of honors including a Whiting Award, the Iowa Prize, the Lucille Medwick Award and a Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America, the Lynda Hull Memorial Prize, an Alexa Rose Foundation Grant, and three Literature Fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Webster’s poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, the Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Grimoire, Guernica, Indiana Review, Washington Square Review, Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Poetry Northwest.