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Our Idaho Writing Camps anthology, Words Work Wonders, is back from Caxton Press and looking fabulous! There’s one free copy for every student who attended camps this year, and extra copies are available for $12 each. Stop by The Cabin anytime (Mon-Fri 9-5) to pick them up, or come to our anthology release party at Barnes & Noble this Saturday, December 10:
_ We have a whole day of free events planned to go along with the anthology release, featuring a gift wrapping table, three one-hour Writing Workshops at 11am, 1pm and 3pm, and three one-hour Camper Readings at 12pm, 2pm and 4pm. You can order extra copies of the anthology by calling The Cabin at 208.340.2233 and we’ll have them reserved for you at the event.
_ In addition to the anthology release, December 10 is The Cabin’s Bookfair at Barnes & Noble, where 15% of every purchase will go to The Cabin. Just be sure to have your Cabin vouchers, or ask a volunteer for one at the event. Can’t make it to the store that day? You can make purchases online from December 10-15 by going to
BN.com/bookfairs and entering Bookfair ID # 10602829 at checkout.
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth at
Idaho Book Extravaganza last weekend! We loved meeting so many passionate writers and readers. In case you missed it, here are some highlights from the two-day event.
Top 50 Idaho Author Awards
The Cabin was overjoyed to see so many of our members and supporters recognized as amongst the top 50 authors in Idaho.
Recipients included Alan Heathcock (Cabin board member), Alan Minskoff (founding member of The Cabin and Writing Camps teacher), Anthony Doerr (Cabin supporter), Bill English (Cabin supporter and former Writing Camps teacher), and our very own Executive Director, Dede Ryan!
Congratulations to everyone who took home one of these awesome trophies.
The Cabin Booth
Thank you to all of the volunteers (Connie, Ciara, Joyce, Patricia, Heidi, Shane, Laura, Julie and Diane) who staffed our booth on Friday and Saturday. Your enthusiasm for The Cabin and our programs came through every time someone stopped by to chat, and we're proud to be represented by such an articulate and devoted group of people.
We had a blast coming up with new materials for the booth, including “Poetry Niblets”—tiny pieces of paper with some of our favorite excerpts from the upcoming Words Work Wonders anthology, penned by Summer Writing Camps 2011 students. Our booth also displayed photos from camps, lots of brochures and flyers, books and posters, and a bowl of Halloween candy.
If you missed out, we still have niblets (of both the poetry and candy varieties) left over, so stop by The Cabin and see us for a treat!
“What is fiction, after all, but a kind of purposeful dreaming?”
--Jonathan Franzen, from his Readings & Conversations lecture
Thank you to Mayor Beiter and the Boise City Department of Arts and History for honoring The Cabin with an award for Excellence in the Arts – Organization. We had a fantastic evening celebrating with all our friends in Boise’s arts and history community. Here are a few photos from the awards event at the Old Penitentiary, September 22, 2011.
Members of the Board of Directors, staff and Cabin members were on hand to represent our organization at the awards.
Artist Sue Latta designed the beautiful plaques, which display a 3D resin image of the Old Pen and a symbolic metal trinket personalized for each recipient. We hung our award in the entryway and it looks perfect against The Cabin’s walls.
We were all so happy to see Surel Mitchell in attendance to accept her award for Excellence in the Arts – Individual.
Executive Director Dede Ryan accepted the award on behalf of The Cabin, telling Mayor Beiter, “Thank you for putting your money where your art is.”
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