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…

Discover how to transform lived experience into powerful, resonant nonfiction. This immersive five-day intensive invites you to explore the heart and craft of memoir. Through a blend of instruction, generative writing, and guided revision, you’ll learn to shape compelling true stories. We’ll examine core elements of craft and use them in unique ways to build…

An eight-week generative workshop for those who want to write about their memories but don’t know where to start. Join teaching artist Robin Sauerwein to explore your creativity through a variety of writing prompts. Participants will share writing in a fun and supportive environment. This is not a critique class. Participants will set goals to keep themselves…

Write On, Door County is pleased to host a session of Art/Speaks, a free writing lab encouraging people to write in response to the images on exhibit at the Door County Community Foundation. Led by local poets Carrie and Peter Sherrill, these 60-minute writing activities are perfect for both beginning and advanced writers in any…

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.…

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…

An eight-week generative workshop for those who want to write about their memories but don’t know where to start. Join teaching artist Robin Sauerwein to explore your creativity through a variety of writing prompts. Participants will share writing in a fun and supportive environment. This is not a critique class. Participants will set goals to keep themselves…

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…

Meet the winners of the Wisconsin Writers Association’s Jade Ring Award and hear them read from their work: Yvette Flaten (poetry), Evelyn Symes (fiction) and Lynn Watson (nonfiction). Light refreshments will be served. No registration is required.

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…