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POETRY MEETS MUSIC: A Collaboration with Midsummer’s Music
Write On is pleased to enter our fourth year of collaboration with Midsummer’s Music! Local and visiting poets were asked to create original poems based on music to be played at one of Midsummer’s concerts. Poets were sent a CD of music to be performed the night of their concert, but with no information as to the composers or other details. Poets were asked to write a poem or poems in response to the emotions evoked by the music they heard. Music…
Find out more »GLASS STORM: A Reading and Conversation with Sally and Mary Lovell
Write On partners with Door County Library to present a reading and conversation with mother and daughter author team, Sally and Mary Lovell. The Lovells will read from and discuss their book, Glass Storm, a first-hand account of the 2005 tornado that ravaged the town of Stoughton, Wisconsin. ABOUT GLASS STORM: After carrying their story around for years, a mother and daughter share their personal recollection of a tornado hitting their hometown. Sally was in the middle of the storm,…
Find out more »POETRY MEETS MUSIC: A Collaboration with Midsummer’s Music
Write On is pleased to enter our fourth year of collaboration with Midsummer’s Music! Local and visiting poets were asked to create original poems based on music to be played at one of Midsummer’s concerts. Poets were sent a CD of music to be performed the night of their concert, but with no information as to the composers or other details. Poets were asked to write a poem or poems in response to the emotions evoked by the music they heard. Music…
Find out more »WRITING YOUR MEMORIES with Ann Martin-Fornaciari
Do you have stories to share? What stories have shaped your life now or in the past? Are there any stories that have a purpose you want to pass on to others or just whimsical moments that made you laugh? In this workshop, your memories will pour out on paper. You will think about your sweetest, most exciting, and most special moments; about experiences you had growing up and years gone by. Simple steps to jog your memory will start…
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 Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Water by Dr. Robert Jerome Glennon. The Santa Cruz River that once flowed through Tucson, Arizona, is today a sad mirage of a river. Except for brief periods following heavy rainfall, it is bone dry. The cottonwood and willow trees that once lined its…
Find out more »STORIES AROUND THE FIRE: A Reading and Conversation with Carol Dunbar
Join us around the campfire outside The Coop, Norb Blei's writing studio, for a reading by and discussion with author Carol Dunbar, winner of the 2018 Hal Prize in Fiction for her short story "Saving Stobs," selected by novelist Peter Geye. Light refreshments will be served. Limited seating is available; feel free to bring your own lawn chair or blanket. In the event of inclement weather, the program will be moved inside. The program is free; goodwill donations encouraged. Carol…
Find out more »PIZZAZZ! Sparking Ideas for Creative Writers with Kim Suhr
Nothing to write about?!? Impossible! In "Pizzazz!," writers will participate in activities and exercises that wake up the creative side of their brains and open up a world of new writing. Ideas are all around us if we train our eyes to see them. To register online, please click here. For other registration options, please call 920-868-1457 or email info@writeondoorcounty.org. Kim Suhr is author of the Nothing to Lose (Cornerstone Press, 2018), Maybe I’ll Learn: Snapshots of a Novice Mom (2012) and co-author of the…
Find out more »WRITING YOUR MEMORIES with Ann Martin-Fornaciari
Do you have stories to share? What stories have shaped your life now or in the past? Are there any stories that have a purpose you want to pass on to others or just whimsical moments that made you laugh? In this workshop, your memories will pour out on paper. You will think about your sweetest, most exciting, and most special moments; about experiences you had growing up and years gone by. Simple steps to jog your memory will start…
Find out more »ART/SPEAKS at Edgewood Orchard Galleries
Write On, Door County is pleased to partner again this season with Edgewood Orchard Galleries on Art/Speaks, a free writing lab encouraging people to write in response to the images on exhibit. Led by poet Francha Barnard, these 60-minute writing activities are perfect for both beginning and advanced writers in any genre. Exhibit IV features artists Olga Ganoudis, Susan Hale, Tom Nachreiner and George Shipperley. About Art/Speaks: The practice of using words to comment on a piece of visual art—ekphrasis—is an ancient one. One of…
Find out more »EVERYBODY ANSWERED THE PHONE: A Workshop in Revision with JoAnn Balingit
Poet JoAnn Balingit will offer a talk and a writing workshop on the process of revision. She will walk participants through six drafts of a poem she wrote, from notebook scribble to lyric elegy. What began as a description of a bird became an alternate vision of her father with whom, via agency of the poem, she could share sorrow. The revision workshop leads students through exercises meant to consider how well a poem's surface narrative communicated the emotional impulse…
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