Soup’s on at Whidbey Pies Café for the first Northwest Institute of Literary Arts open house. The evening begins at 5:30 p.m. tonight at Greenbank Farm.

Poets, writers and all those interested in supporting the literary arts are invited to enjoy a free bowl of the café’s famous soup, socialize, win door prizes and gather information that will whet the appetite of writers at any level of experience.

A preview of the nationally recognized Whidbey Island Writers Conference for 2012 is on the program, as is information about the Whidbey Writers Workshop nationally accredited master of fine arts in creative writing.

For more information contact membership director Donna Hood at 341-1860 or by email at donnahood@whidbey.com.