Memoir Mondays are free one-hour creative writing sessions designed for seniors, but open to all, who want to share memories to leave as a legacy for family and friends. Do you have stories you want to share but you aren’t sure how to get started? These sessions are perfect for you! Volunteers will provide writing…

Join us for a discussion of Kate Quinn's historical novel, The Briar Club, the 2026 selection of Door County Reads.  Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March…

The unexamined life is not worth living   Socrates’ Cafe uses the Socratic method to examine life’s big questions. It is collaborative, dialectic, non-partisan, and egalitarian. What this means is we use open conversations, open doors, big listening, and a lot of empathy to tease out the nuance in timeless and contemporary issues.   No…

Write On is proud to be a sponsor of the special opening night Q&A with Janique Robillard, one of the producers of the acclaimed documentary, The Librarians. A powerful full kick-off to the 2026 Door County Film Festival, this event is sponsored with Friends of Door County Libraries, the Door County Library Foundation, Literacy Door County,…

“I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It’s a new vision of something. It means you don’t have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!”  — Naomi Shihab Nye Join Rachel Gabriel for a three-hour workshop on the often misunderstood tool of revision. Together, we will give new vision to your…

Memoir Mondays are free one-hour creative writing sessions designed for seniors, but open to all, who want to share memories to leave as a legacy for family and friends. Do you have stories you want to share but you aren’t sure how to get started? These sessions are perfect for you! Volunteers will provide writing…

The best novels in any genre are inescapably immersive, redolent with sensory detail that transports you across time and space. How do writers achieve this full immersion effect in fiction? Does setting inspire story, or do you begin with a story in search of a setting? M.L. Rio has written about boarding schools and graveyards…

Write On, Door County is pleased to partner with Kress Pavilion on Art/Speaks, a free writing lab encouraging people to write in response to the images on exhibit. Led by local poets Carrie and Peter Sherrill, these 60-minute writing activities are perfect for both beginning and advanced writers in any genre.  About Art/Speaks: The practice…

Have questions about applying for a 2027 residency for writers or literary arts administrators? Join Founding and Artistic Director Jerod Santek for an online presentation on the residency program and walk-through of the application process. There will be ample time for questions.  This session is presented via Zoom. Registration is required as space is limited. Participants…

Tony Smith and Kathleen Harris host an open mic afternoon for writers of prose. Writers of fiction, essays, memoir, and other forms of prose are welcome to share their work. Each reader will have a strict ten-minute time limit. Hosts recommend that you practice your piece before showing up to know you are within time.…