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 first and 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: 

Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: Erma Hayman House – 617 Ash St, Boise, ID 83702

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.

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

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 Erma Hayman House – 617 Ash St, Boise, ID 83702

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.

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 first and third Tuesday of each month. It is hosted by writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

The Psychology of Writing with Kalee Schwarting

In this workshop, Kalee Schwarting LCPC, will teach you how to apply principles of psychology to your writing. Learn how psychology can help you craft believable characters, write realistic dialogue and create settings and conflict that resonate with the real human experience. The workshop will include guidance on how to write strong characters of all ages, how to accurately and sensitively portray mental illness and disabled characters, and how to understand and write trauma, and how to craft deeply convincing dialogue. Improve your grasp on the human condition and your prose in this 6-week workshop.

Time: 

Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: The Cabin – 801 S Capitol Blvd

Dates:

Thursday, March 5th

Thursday, March 12th

Thursday, March 19th

Thursday, March 26th

Thursday, April 2nd

Thursday, April 9th

Kalee Schwarting is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with a background in trauma, grief, and crisis intervention. She studied psychology and creative writing at the College of Idaho and received her M.S. in counseling from Northwest Nazarene University. Kalee writes poetry & fiction when she isn’t seeing clients at her clinical practice.

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 writing workshop, held at The Cabin from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first 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.