Join us for our annual celebration of writers and readers on beautiful Washington Island. This year’s theme is Come This Far. Presenters include Wisconsin Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig, graphic memoirist Kelcey Ervick, and novelists Leif Enger, Maggie Ginsberg, and Julie Schumacher. Thursday, September 19: Free Community Creative Lab, noon – 3 pm Friday, September 20:…

Write On, Door County is pleased to partner with Idea Gallery 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. Join us for this free,…

Tony Smith and Rosemary Steubi 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…

Have you felt a surge of inspiration watching greatness play out on the baseball field or tennis court? Have you run the race of your life and in the end felt like you were flying? Rose from your yoga mat and felt renewed? If you wish you could bottle up that energy and share it…

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

Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth by joining this writing intensive dedicated to crafting one’s own spiritual memoir. Writing Your Spiritual Memoir is an unparalleled opportunity to delve deeply and unearth the profound experiences that shaped you and your spiritual beliefs, then weave them into a compelling written narrative. Our facilitators…

We don’t need to wait for “special” experiences in order to write poems. Beautiful, resonant poetry can—and so often does—spring from our everyday lives: the objects we live with and love, the more-than-human beings we encounter in our backyards or neighborhoods. In this class, we’ll explore poems, and poem-making, based in the ordinary and daily.…

Now in its 10th season, Great Lakes/Great Books meets the first Thursday of the month September – May to discuss books that have the Great Lakes as setting or subject matter or that are related to water and/or the Great Lakes region. All are welcome, whether you have read the book or not! The selection…

Finding connection and inspiration from the natural world. Tickets are now on sale for Write On, Door County’s 2024 Annual Gala, Languages of the Land to be held October 3 at the Kress Pavillion in Egg Harbor, WI. The keynote speaker this year will be former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kimberly Blaeser, an Anishinaabe activist and…