2021 theme: RUPTURE

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THE CABIN is a Boise, Idaho literary arts organization. We forge community through the voices of all readers, writers, and learners.

The

WRITERS IN THE ATTIC (WITA) program a submission opportunity for

writers, both emerging and established, to publish work related to a one-word theme. With submissions blind-judged by a local writer of acclaim, selected poems and iction are published in a yearly anthology. Now in its tenth year, this publication is meant to be a platform for building an inclusive community and provoking creativity and experimentation througha love of writing.

2021 Theme. A pipe bursts in the night. An Achilles snaps mid-step. A wrecking ball smooches concrete. Gas lines, arteries, ear drums. An old sycamore to a foundation, linoleum to an egg. Coronavirus to 2020. Rupture. The Cabin is shattering its irst decade of Writers in the Attic with 2021’s theme,

RUPTURE. Judge

HARRISON BERRY is a longtime writer and award-winning journalist

from Boise, Idaho. After completing his master’s in journalism at the University of Iowa, he returned to his hometown and got stuck in the lypaper working at Boise Weekly, where he served in a number of roles and eventually became its managing editor. There, he covered hard news topics, as well as literature, theater, music, food and the visual arts; and managed the Boise Weekly Fiction 101 Contest. His work has appeared in American Theatre; VinylMe, Please; The Idaho Statesman; Idaho Press; Sandpoint Reader and elsewhere. He currently works in communications for Boise State University and as a freelance magazine journalist.

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MEET THE WRITERS

11min
pages 181-190

ABOUT

1min
pages 179-180

Exhale

1min
pages 171-172

Ten Seconds to Rupture

6min
pages 165-168

The Walk

7min
pages 173-176

A Funeral Sestina

1min
pages 163-164

How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube

1min
pages 169-170

Fault Lines

5min
pages 160-162

Dinner Conversation

7min
pages 152-158

Manifest Palimpsest

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page 159

By The Numbers

7min
pages 145-149

Miracle of Wood

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pages 150-151

Child’s Moon

7min
pages 136-139

Three Days in Houston

5min
pages 142-144

Because of Mount St. Helens

1min
pages 132-135

Lark Ascending

7min
pages 127-131

Embrace Embarassment

1min
pages 121-126

Invisible Tigers

4min
pages 119-120

Octopus Heart

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page 116

Beauty Shop

1min
pages 117-118

Fetal Position

6min
pages 112-115

Bullighter

7min
pages 107-110

Sound of Bees

4min
pages 97-99

Descend

1min
pages 100-101

The Journey of a Magnum Opus

2min
pages 94-95

Parosmia

1min
page 96

My Pronoun

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page 88

Dear Marcie

7min
pages 89-93

First Frost

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page 83

Seasons Change

7min
pages 84-87

ABCs for My 1, 2, 3

7min
pages 79-82

The Rapture and The Rupture

7min
pages 72-78

Breach

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page 63

Compromise

7min
pages 57-60

A Man Named Joe

3min
pages 69-70

it is natural

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page 71

Ruptured

7min
pages 64-68

No Ruptured Skull Today

3min
pages 61-62

My Mother’s Rolls

4min
pages 54-56

After the Sample

4min
pages 32-34

Shattering the Illusion of Control

7min
pages 45-52

Repairs Under Pressure

7min
pages 27-30

Rupture Stone

1min
pages 37-39

The Flood

3min
pages 35-36

Uninvited

7min
pages 40-44

My Brother

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page 31

Introduction

5min
pages 19-26
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