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MIXED GENRES: TREASURE HUNT WRITING with Jenny Magnus
JOIN US THE MORNING OF THE WINTER SOLSTICE FOR A SPECIAL FAMILY-FRIENDLY EVENT! Writing is a physical activity. Being in your body and moving around then stopping to write is like collecting clues for an unknown treasure. Treasure Hunt Writing takes the process of putting words on paper and moves it out into nature, into the imagination, into the body. Participants will spend some time outside (even in the cold!) collecting ideas and fragments of writing, and following a kind…
Find out more »NEW YEAR’S WRITING RESOLUTIONS: Make 2020 Matter with Baptiste and Miranda Paul
As writers, we often make New Year's resolutions—but we can be easily tempted to give up if the outcomes are out of our control. Author Baptiste Paul and author/literary agent Miranda Paul will supply writers with easy to intermediate steps for improving your craft and your network as you work toward publication. In this festive holiday session, come evaluate your personal journey and expectations, and choose attainable goals that make working toward your dream more enjoyable. If you'd like to…
Find out more »YOUTH: This One Time ‘Round the Sun with Jill Stukenberg
FREE PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS IN 5TH THROUGH 8TH GRADES! What would happen to the goose who flew home for New Year's Eve or the maple that refused to drop its leaves? Join Write On and the Ridges Sanctuary for a morning of imaginative writing using the natural world as a springboard! We'll begin by thinking about the cycle of a year and how an animal or a natural element (tree, rock, shoreline) might experience the changes of temperature, weather, and light…
Find out more »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: Book Discussion
Write On is proud to be a presenting partner with the Door County Library in the Door County Reads program, offering a variety of free programs throughout the county. Join others for a community discussion of this year's selection, Virgil Wander. This discussion is facilitated by Door County librarian Laura Kayacan. Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are…
Find out more »DOOR COUNTY READS: Book Discussion
Write On is proud to be a presenting partner with the Door County Library in the Door County Reads program, offering a variety of free programs throughout the county. Join others for a community discussion of this year's selection, Virgil Wander. This discussion is facilitated by Tina Kakuske and Lisa Tetzloff. Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered…
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 »DOOR COUNTY READS: Play Reading
As part of the Door County Reads program, Peninsula Players presents a reading of James Hindman's dramatic comedy, "Popcorn Falls." The sleepy town of Popcorn Falls is forced into bankruptcy when a neighboring town threatens to turn them into a sewage treatment plant. Their only hope – open a theater! Two actors play over twenty roles in a world of farce, love, and desperation, proving once and for all that art can save the world.
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