While some authors write for themselves (we’re looking at you, Emily Dickinson), many hope to reach an audience outside themselves. Writers in the Attic can offer the first step towards that goal.

An annual publication by The Cabin, Writers in the Attic is a contest designed for writers, both emerging and established, to publish work related to a one-word theme. (Past years’ themes have included song, game, and rupture.) With submissions blind-judged by a local writer of acclaim, selected poems and fiction are published in a yearly anthology. Selected writers are also invited to a book launch party and reading celebration in late August each year.