Thursday, September 18: Community Creative Lab FREE Friday, September 19: writing workshops 10 am – noon and 1:30 – 3:30 pm Saturday, September 20: author panel discussions and presentations, all day View complete details here!

Write On, Door County presents 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. Sessions are offered throughout the year at various museums and galleries…

Due to the Washington Island Literary Festival, the center will be closed Saturday and Sunday, September 20 and 21. Our trails and terraces are open for you to enjoy.

Think of Readers’ Cafe as the most informal book group you’ve ever attended! There’s no need stay up late the night before trying to finish a book you don’t really care that much for. Instead, come prepared to talk about a book you loved — it could be one you read recently or one you…

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…

Write On is pleased to partner with Door Kinetic Arts Festival (DKAF) on a conversation with Rick Cleveland and Chris Nee. Rick Cleveland is a playwright and an Emmy winning writer/producer whose television credits include “The West Wing,” “Six Feet Under,” “Mad Men,” “Nurse Jackie,” “House Of Cards,” “Archer,” “Legit,” and “Man In The High…

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 reading is…

Write On, Door County presents 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. Sessions are offered throughout the year at various museums and galleries…

Discover the importance of complexity in character development in fiction. Come prepared to share your favorite characters from fiction — books, movies, and/or TV — with the goal of identifying common features of good characters, one of which is complexity. We’ll look at Robin Hemley’s essay, “Sympathy for the Devil: What to Do About Difficult…

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.…