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DOOR COUNTY READS: Kickoff Author Talk with Leif Enger
Write On, Door County is proud to be a presenting partner in Door County Reads. The selection for 2020 is Leif Enger's novel Virgil Wander. After a car accident, the title character suffers memory loss and struggles to reconstruct his past. Set in the small town of Greenstone on Minnesota's Lake Superior shore, Virgil Wander is a bittersweet chronicle of a tightknit community with quirky characters, all-American values, and movie classics. Leif Enger was raised in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as…
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Baseball in Door County with Myles Dannhausen, Jr.
As part of Door County Reads, Write On board member and Peninsula Pulse editor Myles Dannhausen, Jr., leads a discussion of the history of baseball in Door County. In Virgil Wander, the novel selected for this year's program, a minor league baseball player in the small town of Greenstone, Minnesota, disappears after flying solo in an old plane over Lake Superior.
Find out more »WRITE ON IN THE COMMUNITY: SkyWriting with Northern Sky Theater and Door County School
Write On and Northern Sky Theater collaborate on offering in-school creative writing workshops at area elementary, middle, and high schools. Using fun-filled prompts and activities, we will encourage students to write on the theme of nature. Writing workshops will take place throughout winter and spring. Representatives from Write On and Northern Sky will collect these writings and select a number to be adapted to music. Curated and directed by Ray Jivoff and composer Brett Ryback, up to ten songs will…
Find out more »WRITE ON IN THE COMMUNITY: SkyWriting with Northern Sky Theater and Door County School
Write On and Northern Sky Theater collaborate on offering in-school creative writing workshops at area elementary, middle, and high schools. Using fun-filled prompts and activities, we will encourage students to write on the theme of nature. Writing workshops will take place throughout winter and spring. Representatives from Write On and Northern Sky will collect these writings and select a number to be adapted to music. Curated and directed by Ray Jivoff and composer Brett Ryback, up to ten songs will…
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Hometown Writing
Virgil Wander is as much a story about the town of Greenstone as it is about the characters who live there. What would you write about your hometown, either the one you were raised in or where you live now? Through guided exercises, you’ll discover how to tap into memories of those locations and discover the stories those towns have to tell. This writing lab is part of Door County Reads and is led by Write On's Artistic Director Jerod…
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Home Is More Than a Place
In nature, home is more than food, water and shelter. Home is a place, but also interactions with the community and the elements. So it is in Virgil Wander. In fact, environmental elements are almost characters in the story. In this presentation, learn some of the natural history of the wind, the lake, and the creatures which figure so prominently in the story and ponder how our communities often mirror nature.
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Hometown Writing
Virgil Wander is as much a story about the town of Greenstone as it is about the characters who live there. What would you write about your hometown, either the one you were raised in or where you live now? Through guided exercises, you’ll discover how to tap into memories of those locations and discover the stories those towns have to tell. This writing lab is part of Door County Reads and is led by Write On's Artistic Director Jerod Santek.…
Find out more »PRESENTATION: Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
Write On's writer-in-residence for the month of February is Jānis Valks, a science fiction writer from Ventspils, Latvia. Jānis will give a presentation on the themes of his novels and the consequences of the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union in Latvia and Eastern Europe in general, including exploration in post-Soviet heritage objects – abandoned infrastructure such as bomb shelters, army bases, factories, civil buildings, sewer tunnels, etc. Jānis Valks has worked as an airport service specialist, an aircraft…
Find out more »INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY POETRY READING
Celebrate International Mother Language Day with Write On as people share poems and stories in their native languages! This reading not only celebrates the languages of the world spoken here in Door County, it also invites audience members to relax and appreciate the rhythm and music of poetry, rather than focus on the poem's "message." Past languages presented at this annual event have included Bulgarian, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukranian, and Walloon. Speakers of languages other…
Find out more »WRITE ON AT AWP CONFERENCE 2020!
Visit Write On at Booth 1562 at the 2020 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) annual conference and bookfair!
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