FOR WRITERS GOING INTO 6TH – 8TH GRADES IN FALL  Join us for a week filled with fun and interactive sessions. We’ll exlpore all the ways writers use to make their words more meaningful to readers. You’ll create stories and poems inspired by the woods and fields of Write On, as well as your own…

FOR WRITERS GOING INTO 3rd – 5th GRADES IN FALL Join us for a week filled with fun and interactive sessions. We’ll exlpore all the ways writers use to make their words more meaningful to readers. You’ll create stories and poems inspired by the woods and fields of Write On, as well as your own…

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 is pleased to partner with Margaret Lockwood 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. Sessions are offered quarterly throughout…

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…

“I always keep two books in my pocket, one to read and one to write in,” said Robert Louis Stevenson in 1887. In this five-day generative fiction workshop, we will explore how that simple two-part strategy holds true for writers in the 21st century. Through a pattern of in-class readings, discussions, prompts, and sharing, we…

Writing creative nonfiction puts us into new relationships to time. First, we need to carve out time to write! And whenever we write memoir, we are confronting our earlier selves on the page and applying present-day wisdom to past situations. This workshop will cover a range of topics in creative nonfiction, all through the lens…

Join us for a reading and conversation with the teaching artists leading this week’s fiction and nonfiction intensives: Kathleen Rooney and Rachel Jamison Webster. Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary works in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of…

Join us for the launch of Angela Bier’s new novel, Voices. About Voices: When Elena Tannin moves to Belvedere in her junior year, she worries about fitting her high-achieving self into a new, small-town school. Elena quickly adjusts academically and socially, finding friends in the Nerd Herd and even a possible boyfriend. Things are going…

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…