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Art/Speaks at Margaret Lockwood Gallery

Jul 11, 2025 11:00AM—12:00PM

Margaret Lockwood Gallery, 7 S. Second Ave., Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Cost Free

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…

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Memoir Monday

Jul 14, 2025 10:00AM—11:00AM

Rutledge Room, Community Center, 910 Main Rd., Washington Island, WI 54246

Cost Free

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…

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Fiction Intensive with Kathleen Rooney

Jul 14, 2025 9:00AM—Jul 18, 2025 12:00PM

Write On, Door County 4210 Juddville Rd. Fish Creek, WI 54212

Cost $350.00

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“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…

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Writing the Quest: A Nonfiction Intensive with Rachel Jamison Webster

Jul 14, 2025 1:00PM—Jul 18, 2025 4:00PM

Write On, Door County 4210 Juddville Rd. Fish Creek, WI 54212

Cost $350.00

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In one of his “Letters to a Young Poet,” the writer Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves . . . Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”…

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AUTHOR READING: Kathleen Rooney & Rachel Jamison Webster

Jul 15, 2025 6:30PM

Write On, Door County, 4210 Juddville Rd., Fish Creek, WI 54212

Cost Free

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…

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Art/Speaks at ARTicipation Studio and Gallery

Jul 18, 2025 11:00AM—12:00PM

ARTicipation Studio and Gallery, 10 E. Oak St., Sturgeon Bay

Cost Free

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…

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2025 DOOR COUNTY BOOK AND AUTHOR FAIR: EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION

Jul 19, 2025 8:00AM—12:00PM

Martin Park 207 S. Third Ave. Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

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Reserve your space now for the 5th annual Door County Book and Author Fair, featuring dozens of novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, children’s book writers and more!  SATURDAY, JULY 19, 8 AM – 12 PM, MARTIN PARK, STURGEON BAY RESERVE YOUR SPACE BY JUNE 30! PRICING FOR MEMBERS OF THE DOOR COUNTY PUBLISHED AUTHORS COLLECTIVE (DCPAC)…

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5th Annual Door County Book and Author Fair

Jul 19, 2025 8:00AM—12:00PM

Martin Park, 207 S. 3rd Ave., Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Cost Free

Join Write On and the Door County Published Authors Collective for the 5th Annual Door County Book and Author Fair. Meet dozens of authors who live in or have significant ties to Door County. Novelists, poets, nonfiction writers, authors of children’s books, and more will be present to sell their books and to talk about…

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The Readers’ Cafe: Vacation Rental Month

Jul 20, 2025 11:00AM—12:00PM

Write On, Door County, 4210 Juddville Rd., Fish Creek, WI 54212

Cost Free

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…

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Poetry Meets Music

Jul 20, 2025 4:00PM—6:00PM

Hope United Church of Christ, 141 S. 12th Ave., Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Write On is happy to continue our collaboration with Midsummer’s Music, Poetry Meets Music. At one concert in each of Midsummer’s series offerings, a poet will read a poem written in response to a piece of music to be performed. Poets were given recordings in advance with no identifying information as to the title, composer,…

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