Discover the importance of complexity in character development in fiction. Come prepared to share your favorite characters from fiction — books, movies, and/or TV — with the goal of identifying common features of good characters, one of which is complexity. We’ll look at Robin Hemley’s essay, “Sympathy for the Devil: What to Do About Difficult…

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.…

Join Marjasana Kay for a free introduction to her upcoming four-week class that involves sound healing and journaling. Using visualization, meditation, and sound healing, participants will write from their experience and in response to prompts. Marjasana’s four-week class begins Sunday, October 5. 10 – 11:30 am. Register online or by phone.

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…

Bring family and friends for an afternoon of game! Write On has a wide variety of games and puzzles with a literary or word related theme. (Full list of games below.) Drop in at any time! Games are always available to be enjoyed any time the center is open. CHOOSE FROM THESE GAMES: A Little…

Have you ever wondered what answers, ideas, creative sparks, and healing lies behind the 24/7 thinking mind? Join Marjasana in this experience of opening the voice and the ears to your inner world, and then write about it. Each week's session will have a slightly different theme, and all of them will begin with a…

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…

Tickets go on sale June 15 for POWER OF THE PEN, Write On’s Annual Gala to be held October 9 at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor, WI. The keynote speaker this year will be writer and editor Maggie Ginsberg, author of the award-winning novel Still True. Her talk will follow dinner catered by Thyme Catering.…

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…