Members have opportunities to share their works, too. Each quarter the Log Cabin offers a wide selection of workshops taught by poets, novelists, screenwriters, journalists, storytellers, editors or bookmakers. Class size is 12 or fewer. Topics include journaling, poetry writing on several levels, writing memoirs, exploring character, mythol ogy in our lives, and many others. In September, New Mexico poet Joan Logghe leads a weekend residen tial writing workshop in Idaho City sponsored by the Log Cabin, limited to 15 writers.
All genres are explored, and selected work is published in a chapbook.
Led by Norm Weinstein and others, these calisthenics for writing muscles offer a workout with exercises to take writers of any level into new territory. Today, nearly a dozen meet regularly at the Log Cabin. Members who prefer to laud, question or just plain talk about books attend monthly meetings of the Log Cabin Book Group. The Log Cabin helps open the doors of language to Idaho school children through the WITS program, which places authors and poets in 40 classrooms for 28-week residencies. WITS forges partnerships between teachers and their resident writers through joint training sessions.