Welcome, book lovers! Are you a fan of Elizabeth Gilbert’s writing? Have you had the chance to read her novel, “City of Girls”? If not, don’t worry – we’ve got you covered! We are excited to invite you to a book club at The Cabin where we will be diving into the pages of the captivating story of Vivian Morris, as she navigates life in the glamorous theater world of 1940s New York City.

We’ll also have a variety of snacks and refreshments to keep you fueled during our engaging conversation. This is the perfect opportunity to share your thoughts and insights about the book, and hear what others have to say.

So, mark your calendar and join us for an unforgettable evening at The Cabin book club for “City of Girls” by Elizabeth Gilbert. We can’t wait to see you there!

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.

Pound the pavement and take your imagination downtown.

The city has its own heartbeat (or so the song goes). Can you find it? Using cityscapes, coffee shops, public art, and urban life as your map, find and write the pulse of an urban-influenced short story or poem – with characters spotted on street corners, plots born out of passing conversations, and the vibrant settings of alleys, parks, and mysterious buildings.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

Find your truth and write your story.

Joan Didion said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” But how do we share those stories? How do we write them? Through powerful language, truth, and our unique vision of the world. Work with an experienced teaching-writer from The Cabin to tell your story (or poem), shaping your words into language that leaps off the page and stays with your reader forever.

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.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

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.

Find your truth and write your story.

Joan Didion said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” But how do we share those stories? How do we write them? Through powerful language, truth, and our unique vision of the world. Work with an experienced teaching-writer from The Cabin to tell your story (or poem), shaping your words into language that leaps off the page and stays with your reader forever.

What does an anteater smell? How do giraffes sleep? What do turtles fear most? Learn a new language through the eyes of animals and create a collection of reptilian, amphibian, or just plain mammalian-inspired poems and short stories while learning about the animals that inspire us at Zoo Boise and The Cabin.

Campers ages 10-12 / grades 5-6: Begin your mornings with a teaching-writer at The Cabin to hone your creative writing skills. After lunch, you will head to Zoo Boise for animal observations and explorations.

Note: This is an all-day camp. Pack a lunch!

Pound the pavement and take your imagination downtown.

The city has its own heartbeat (or so the song goes). Can you find it? Using cityscapes, coffee shops, public art, and urban life as your map, find and write the pulse of an urban-influenced short story or poem – with characters spotted on street corners, plots born out of passing conversations, and the vibrant settings of alleys, parks, and mysterious buildings.

Set your poems and stories in motion with games and play.

What does joy smell like? Taste like? And what rhymes with orange? (Door hinge? More hens?) Play the types of story and word games that wake up all five senses, sparking creativity and encouraging new paths to writing imaginative poems and stories. Then, explore nearby parks and other locations for inspiration.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

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.

Write for the eye, with your soul as your guide.

Cave paintings. Hieroglyphics. Graffiti. Even before letters, we told stories through pictures. Explore the raw power of connecting words and images as you work to bring visual poems and stories alive with characters, plot, and a rich background. With excursions about town and graphic texts to draw from, discover how to produce collages, comics, illustrated poems, calligraphy, and stories meant for the eye.

Write for the eye, with your soul as your guide.

Cave paintings. Hieroglyphics. Graffiti. Even before letters, we told stories through pictures. Explore the raw power of connecting words and images as you work to bring visual poems and stories alive with characters, plot, and a rich background. With excursions about town and graphic texts to draw from, discover how to produce collages, comics, illustrated poems, calligraphy, and stories meant for the eye.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

Build a (strange) new world in this sci-fi/fantasy fiction camp

Zombies, dragons, robots, oh my! Kick things off by working with other writers to build the rules for the fantastical realm of your dreams. With your teaching-writer/wizard guiding you about town, let your imagination boil and bubble as you create an original short story inspired by this strange land – all while learning the spells behind all good stories, like plot, dialogue, character, and setting.

Find your truth and write your story.

Joan Didion said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” But how do we share those stories? How do we write them? Through powerful language, truth, and our unique vision of the world. Work with an experienced teaching-writer from The Cabin to tell your story (or poem), shaping your words into language that leaps off the page and stays with your reader forever.

Get inspired by meeting the raptors soaring above us.

Did you know the owl turns his head because his eyes can’t move? Or that the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth? Get an up-close look at vultures, eagles, and some of the globe’s largest hawks at the World Center for Birds of Prey. Hear from scientists about important bird conservation projects – then, strike out with your Cabin teaching-writer to transform your new, ornithological knowledge into raptor-inspired poems and short stories.

A collaboration of The Cabin and The Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of Prey.

Create a play you can take from the page to the stage.

It’s five minutes to curtain – are you ready? Work alongside a professional playwright to learn the essential tools of playwriting (like plot, action, character, and dialogue) to build a one act play from the ground up. Participate in acting exercises to experience the collaborative process that can make writing for theater feel like anything is possible. 

Write for the eye, with your soul as your guide.

Cave paintings. Hieroglyphics. Graffiti. Even before letters, we told stories through pictures. Explore the raw power of connecting words and images as you work to bring visual poems and stories alive with characters, plot, and a rich background. With excursions about town and graphic texts to draw from, discover how to produce collages, comics, illustrated poems, calligraphy, and stories meant for the eye.

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.

Find your truth and write your story.

Joan Didion said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” But how do we share those stories? How do we write them? Through powerful language, truth, and our unique vision of the world. Work with an experienced teaching-writer from The Cabin to tell your story (or poem), shaping your words into language that leaps off the page and stays with your reader forever.

Set your poems and stories in motion with games and play.

What does joy smell like? Taste like? And what rhymes with orange? (Door hinge? More hens?) Play the types of story and word games that wake up all five senses, sparking creativity and encouraging new paths to writing imaginative poems and stories. Then, explore nearby parks and other locations for inspiration.

Learn the tools to produce your own blockbuster screenplays.

Feel that force, flowing through you? That’s visual storytelling, the language of action and romance, drama and comedy, waiting for you to harness it. With popular movies and classic cinema as your director, learn how to develop characters, plot, action, and dialogue that turns a notion into an idea and an idea into a script.

Pound the pavement and take your imagination downtown.

The city has its own heartbeat (or so the song goes). Can you find it? Using cityscapes, coffee shops, public art, and urban life as your map, find and write the pulse of an urban-influenced short story or poem – with characters spotted on street corners, plots born out of passing conversations, and the vibrant settings of alleys, parks, and mysterious buildings.

Find your truth and write your story.

Joan Didion said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” But how do we share those stories? How do we write them? Through powerful language, truth, and our unique vision of the world. Work with an experienced teaching-writer from The Cabin to tell your story (or poem), shaping your words into language that leaps off the page and stays with your reader forever.