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WRiTERS NiGHT: LGBTQ Edition
As part of Open Door Pride week, Tambourine Lounge and Write On, Door County partner to bring a special LGBTQ+ WRiTERS NiGHT! Regular host Cathy Grier, a founding member of Open Door Pride, leads this special curated event. We are seeking LGBTQ+ related original songs, spoken word pieces, prose or poetry. Readers have a maximum time limit of 10 minutes. Only 12 spots area available and are certain to fill up fast! If you are interested in reading, please contact…
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 »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 THE NATURAL WORLD with Michael Brecke
The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and your best animal friends from today or yesteryear. We will write stories about the natural world and those things in the natural world that we can see and touch and even taste. We will write about our animal friends they are always more than pets. This will be a writing class and what we will be doing is writing. Each class will feature an opening to discuss the topic…
Find out more »WRITING THE NATURAL WORLD with Michael Brecke
The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and your best animal friends from today or yesteryear. We will write stories about the natural world and those things in the natural world that we can see and touch and even taste. We will write about our animal friends they are always more than pets. This will be a writing class and what we will be doing is writing. Each class will feature an opening to discuss the topic…
Find out more »EGGS-PHRASTIC WRITING! A Special Art/Speaks EGGStravaganza Creative Lab
The practice of using words to comment on a piece of visual art—ekphrasis—is an ancient one. One of the earliest and most commonly cited forms of ekphrasis occurs in The Iliad, when Homer provides a long and discursive account of the elaborate scenes embossed on the shield of Achilles. Contemporary literature provides many fine examples of ekphrastic writing. Art/Speaks is a long-running Write On program encouraging people to write in response to art at local galleries. We take a unique spin…
Find out more »WRITING THE NATURAL WORLD with Michael Brecke
The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and your best animal friends from today or yesteryear. We will write stories about the natural world and those things in the natural world that we can see and touch and even taste. We will write about our animal friends they are always more than pets. This will be a writing class and what we will be doing is writing. Each class will feature an opening to discuss the topic…
Find out more »ART/SPEAKS: A Free Writing Lab
Write On, Door County is pleased to partner with Margaret Lockwood Gallery on Art/Speaks, a free writing lab encouraging people to write in response to the images on exhibit. Led by an accomplished writer, these 60-minute writing activities are perfect for both beginning and advanced writers in any genre. Sessions are offered quarterly throughout the year. About Art/Speaks: The practice of using words to comment on a piece of visual art—ekphrasis—is an ancient one. One of the earliest and most commonly cited forms…
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 »ORGANIC FORM: Seven Steps to Finding Your Plot with Kelly Daniels
You've got a great story. But where to start? Where to end? What to put in the middle? The art of storytelling is the art of choosing, arranging, amplifying, summarizing, and cutting ... in short, it's the act of discovering meaning without form. After a brief lecture, we will move through a seven-step exercise designed to help uncover the organic structure buried within your story. These steps include: Brainstorming narrative events Evaluating whether and event should be dramatized as scene,…
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