This interactive workshop will focus on supporting adult participants who aim to either begin a fiction story or advance/enhance works in progress. Participants will be asked to bring their nascent ideas or drafts of a story or scene that they would like to improve or build out. During the first hour, participants will share their…

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…

Join Door County Poets Laureate, Carrie and Peter Sherrill, for Art/Speaks at Woodwalk Gallery. Explore the art in the gallery and discover a piece to write in response to.  Held at various venues throughout the county, these 60-minute writing activities are perfect for both beginning and advanced writers in any genre. About Art/Speaks: The practice of using words…

Food both shapes and reflects our personal, cultural, and social identity. Food connects us to land and the natural world, to animals, farmers, workers, and community. Our food choices say a lot about who we are. To participatte in this session, please bring a favorite recipe or description of a meal or food item that…

Join Door County Poets Laureate and Art/Speaks facilitators Carrie and Peter Sherrill as they host a reading by participants in our popular Art/Speaks program!  Art/Speaks is a free one-hour creative lab offered at galleries and museums around the county. Hear they work participants have written in response to a work of art. Join a session…

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 nature and writing hike through Write On, Door County’s campus. On this hike, we will take time to observe the plants, trees, birds, and other living creatures we see, and listen for the sounds they make in the wind or in their calls. We might even stop to smell the roses.…

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.…

The center will be closed today in observance of Memorial Day. Please feel free to explore our trails.

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…