As part of programming for Door County Reads, we offer Echoes in the Story, focused on how fiction can serve as a powerful tool for healing grief, particularly the overlooked grief of losing someone while they are still living. Grief arises as we witness someone we love slip away slowly through dementia, chronic illness, addiction,…

Now in its 11th 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! This month’s…

Write On, Door County is pleased to partner with the Miller Art Museum 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:…

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…