This Mother’s Day weekend, celebrate Mother Earth with two days focused on writing about nature and the environment with leading voices in the field. Join us at the Landmark Resort in Egg Harbor for the 2025 Writing On The Door Conference: Writing the World. Whether you are a poet, nonfiction writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, or…

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 fun and highly interactive program that provides guidance, helpful tips, constructive advice, and a methodology and framework to help you write various types of songs. It is for all levels of musical aptitude including those who sometimes get stuck writing songs or have always wanted to write songs but have never…

Some of our most profound experiences are gracefully simple and some are stranger than fiction. How do we make sense of our life experiences and how do we record them? What voice do we use to tell our life story and what format? After we muster the courage and humor to record our memoirs, how…

Join author Sally Collins for an afternoon of tapping into your own experiences and memories to create compelling, complex, and authentic fiction, no matter the genre. “Write what you know,” the old saying goes — but sometimes it’s a struggle. Over the course of the workshop, you will examine the fiction of authors throughout the…

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…

Think of Readers’ Cafe as the most informal book group you’ve ever attended! There’s no need stay up late the night before trying to finish a book you don’t really care that much for. Instead, come prepared to talk about a book you loved — it could be one you read recently or one you…

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…

Write On is pleased to partner with the Friends of Door County Libraries with a reading and conversation with fiction writers Gabriela Garcia and Christine Vines. Gabriela Garcia is a fiction writer and poet. She is the author of the novel Of Women and Salt, a New York Times and indie bestseller, winner of the International Latino Book Award,…

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.…