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Door County Mystery Writers Critique Group
The Door County Mystery Writers Critique Group will meet the first Tuesday of every month at 11 am. The purpose of the group is to offer critiques of pages, outlines, synopsis, and query letters, as well as exchanging ideas about plots, etc. The group is facilitated by local writer James Jordan. Find the support and encouragement you need to keep your mystery going!
Find out more »BARDS AND BREWS: An Evening of Sharing Poetry and Beer
Think of it as Door County's Algonquin Round Table, except the table is oblong! Gather with other poets and poetry lovers to read your own poems, talk about poetry -- and assorted other topics -- and enjoy incredible craft beers. Bards and Brews takes place the first Wednesday of the month at beautiful Starboard Brewing Company in the heart of downtown Sturgeon Bay. Whether you are new to poetry or have been writing for years, whether you live in Door County…
Find out more »Great Lakes/Great Books discussion group
A monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as a setting or as subject matter. This month’s selection is Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye. Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father 35 years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially…
Find out more »THE SCENTS OF ENDING with Catherine Jagoe and Judith Woodburn
Writer Diane Ackermann called the sense of smell “the dumb sense” because it resists description but artists and writers remain curious about olfaction and its often mysterious contributions to our understanding. Scents are powerful evokers of memories. Authors Catherine Jagoe and Judith Woodburn explore the relationship between olfaction and grief. Using individually crafted scent strips, they will guide participants through a series of exercises that explore our sense of loss both in human relationships and in a natural world facing…
Find out more »WILD WORDS CREATIVE LAB
Calling all storytellers! Wild Words celebrates Door County's land and water through PechaKucha presentations. PechaKucha is a Japanese form of storytelling that combines images with words. Storytellers show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. As the images advance, participants share their stories for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Write On and Door County Land Trust present a series of free creative labs to help interested storytellers prepare their PechaKucha. These sessions will offer advice both on writing and…
Find out more »Best Book I Never Read
We’ve all done it. Our high school English teacher or a college lit professor assigned a novel that we had every good intention of reading, but time slipped away. So, the night before the exam, we scanned the Cliff Notes or watched the film adaptation. We didn’t do so well on the exam. Here’s a chance to read those books without having to worry about your grade point average! Enjoy some of the fine crafted beers of Starboard Brewing Company…
Find out more »WILD WORDS CREATIVE LAB
Calling all storytellers! Wild Words celebrates Door County's land and water through PechaKucha presentations. PechaKucha is a Japanese form of storytelling that combines images with words. Storytellers show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. As the images advance, participants share their stories for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Write On and Door County Land Trust present a series of free creative labs to help interested storytellers prepare their PechaKucha. These sessions will offer advice both on writing and…
Find out more »WILD WORDS CREATIVE LAB
Calling all storytellers! Wild Words celebrates Door County's land and water through PechaKucha presentations. PechaKucha is a Japanese form of storytelling that combines images with words. Storytellers show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. As the images advance, participants share their stories for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Write On and Door County Land Trust present a series of free creative labs to help interested storytellers prepare their PechaKucha. These sessions will offer advice both on writing and…
Find out more »Door County Mystery Writers Critique Group
The Door County Mystery Writers Critique Group will meet the first Tuesday of every month at 11 am. The purpose of the group is to offer critiques of pages, outlines, synopsis, and query letters, as well as exchanging ideas about plots, etc. The group is facilitated by local writer James Jordan. Find the support and encouragement you need to keep your mystery going!
Find out more »Great Lakes/Great Books discussion group
A monthly book club discussing works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have the Great Lakes as a setting or as subject matter. This month’s selection is Barkskins by E. Annie Proulx. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests. In the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land,…
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