Join author Sally Collins for an afternoon of tapping into your own experiences and memories to create compelling, complex, and authentic fiction, no matter the genre. “Write what you know,” the old saying goes — but sometimes it’s a struggle. Over the course of the workshop, you will examine the fiction of authors throughout the…

Join us for a fun and highly interactive program that provides guidance, helpful tips, constructive advice, and a methodology and framework to help you write various types of songs. It is for all levels of musical aptitude including those who sometimes get stuck writing songs or have always wanted to write songs but have never…

Join us for Saturday only of our two-day writing conference focused on nature and the environment. Saturday's sessions include: Keynote with Daniel Slager, publisher & CEO, Milkweed Editions Morning breakout sessions with Jill Stukenberg (prose); Michael Walsh (poetry); Chera Van Falcon Burg (advocacy); Libby Humprhies (Hike and Write: The Ridges) Panel Discussion: Eco-Poetics with Kimberly Blaeser, Nicholas Gulig,…

Join us for Friday only of our two-day writing conference focused on nature and the environment. Friday’s presenters include: Keynote with Dan Egan Morning breakout sessions with Constance Malloy (prose), Caryl Pagel (poetry), Lindsey Taylor (advocacy), Carrie and Peter Sherrill (Hike and Write: Art/Speaks) Panel discussion on Writing the Nature of the Door with Kathleen…

Many people have stories to tell about illness, whether it’s visible or invisible, chronic or an era in their lives. Jumi Bello will introduce participants to various writers, both living and dead, who write on the notions of illness and the different forms they’ve embodied in expressing their experience. She will then guide participants in…

This workshop is designed to get you started on your own junk journal journey. Junk journaling is a way of recording your inner passion, life experiences, and collaging what you love and learn. It combines all forms of art mediums to create a book of you. Junk journaling uses everything from writing about your life…

Narrative medicine is a process by which patients, providers, and caregivers can work through the emotions and experience of a serious or chronic illness. This special workshop is open to all who are interested in chronicling their own health care journeys through essay writing. Jennifer Frank will share examples from her own essays as well…

Have you always wanted to invent your own poetic form but don’t know where to start? Featuring the duplex, the golden shovel, the sonnenizio, and the American sentence acrostic — all forms invented by contemporary living poets — this intensive breaks down the process of formal invention and reveals the process behind the product. Beginning…

Write On returns to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) annual conference. Meet Executive Director Al DeGenova and Founding and Artistic Director Jerod Santek in the bookfair at Booth 710. Find out about our writers’ residency programs; fellowship opportunities; writers’ retreats; conferences and workshops and much more!

Write On is pleased to present a free workshop focused on writing characters as part of the Door County Reads 2025 programming. Who was your favorite character in TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea? How can you create characters as identifiable as the ones in his novel? Discover tips and strategies for writing characters…