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POETRY WORKSHOP with Katie Vagnino
Develop methods for creating poems that are powerful, provocative, and unsettling. PROTEST POETRY with Katie Vagnino In this workshop, we will focus on poems that seek to challenge or disrupt the status quo in some fundamental way through their form, content, or both. We will examine how contemporary American poets use words to advocate for—and protest against—issues that matter to them. The best poetry of this genre strikes a balance between art and argument, and feels both personal and universal,…
Find out more »FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP with Sheila O’Connor
Explore the world of your story through exercises and prompts PLACE IN FICTION with Sheila O'Connor Whether we're placing our story in a familiar landscape, or inventing a fictional reality, the world our characters inhabit will shape their actions and their destinies. How do we create a world so vivid and convincing readers will feel as if they've actually inhabited that place? How do we develop the relationship between character, conflict, and setting? How can we use setting as a…
Find out more »THE CRAFT OF WRITING SERIES: The Novel with Peter Geye and Rebecca Makkai
The Craft of Writing Series is a three-week program that takes place virtually the first through third Thursdays of each month. Each month focuses on a different genre or form of writing. Thursday, August 6: Author Conversation Join acclaimed novelists Peter Geye and Rebecca Makkai for a conversation on the craft of writing the novel. Thursday, August 13: Interiority Complex with Rebecca Makkai The great advantage of prose (over theater, film, and life) is that we’re privy to characters’ interior…
Find out more »PROSE WRITING WORKSHOP with Amy Hassinger
Explore the form looking to the work of others and following prompts to create your own lyrical essay WRITING THE LYRIC ESSAY with Amy Hassinger The lyric essay is a wide-open form that brings together music, poetry, and the associative movement of the mind. In this 3-hour Zoom workshop, we will explore the form, looking to the work of Anne Carson and Eula Biss for guidance, and will then try a lyric essay start ourselves, following a prompt. We’ll finish…
Find out more »GRAND OPENING: A Special Event for Members & Supporters
CELEBRATE WITH US AS WE OPEN OUR NEW WRITING CENTER! A Special Event for Write On's Members & Supporters Readings By Local and Visiting Writers Music by Katie Dahl and Rich Higdon To become a member or supporter, please click here! This event is free but registration is required. To register for this event online, please click here. For other ways to register, please call 920.868.1457.
Find out more »PLAYWRIGHTS’ COLLECTIVE CRITIQUE GROUP
Write On is proud to partner with the Playwrights' Collective to present a virtual critique group for playwrights and scriptwriters to gather and discuss their work. Join us twice a month to discover what the group is doing or to hear your work read aloud. This group is presented free of charge and is open to writers of any experience level, adults and high school students. The group will meet on the 1st & 3rd Monday of the month at…
Find out more »FICTION AND POETRY READING with Lan Samantha Chang and Nan Cohen
Lan Samantha Chang and Nan Cohen, longtime colleagues and friends, offer a collaborative reading of fiction and poetry. This program will be presented online. Novelist Lan Samantha Chang and poet Nan Cohen have often talked about the conversations between poems and prose, especially those that pertain to narrative and imagery. At first glance, narrative seems like the domain of prose; imagery seems like the domain of poetry. And yet poetry may carry a story forward through time, and fiction may…
Find out more »THE CRAFT OF WRITING SERIES: The Novel with Peter Geye and Rebecca Makkai
The Craft of Writing Series is a three-week program that takes place virtually the first through third Thursdays of each month. Each month focuses on a different genre or form of writing. Thursday, August 6: Author Conversation Join acclaimed novelists Peter Geye and Rebecca Makkai for a conversation on the craft of writing the novel. Thursday, August 13: Interiority Complex with Rebecca Makkai The great advantage of prose (over theater, film, and life) is that we’re privy to characters’ interior…
Find out more »FREE WRITING LAB: ART/SPEAKS
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 III features the works of artists Craig Blietz, Marcia McDonough, Jim Rose, George Shipperley, and C.T. Whitehouse. About Art/Speaks: The practice of using words to comment on a piece…
Find out more »The Craft of Writing Series: Middle Grade Fiction with Anika Farjardo and Lora Hyler
The Craft of Writing Series is a three-week program that takes place virtually the first through third Thursdays of each month. Each month focuses on a different genre or form of writing. Thursday, September 3: Author Conversation Join authors Anika Fajardo and Lora Hyler for a conversation on the craft of writing fiction for middle-grade readers. Thursday, September 10: Translating Your Passion for Reading Children’s Books into Writing for Children with Lora Hyler Many children’s book authors are overheard to…
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