Join Door County Poets Laureate, Carrie and Peter Sherrill, for Art/Speaks at ARTicipation Studio and Gallery. Explore the art on exhibit and discover something 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…

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 an evening of powerful storytelling with Kimberly Blaeser, Luci Tapahanso, and Laura Tohe. Open to all. Light refreshments will be served. Kimberly Blaeser is the founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets (In-Na-Po) and a past Poet Laureate of Wisconsin. She is the author of books in several genres, including six collections of…

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…

Join Door County Poets Laureate, Carrie and Peter Sherrill, for Art/Speaks at The Garden Door. Explore the gardens and discover something 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 to…

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.…

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 Door County Poets Laureate, Carrie and Peter Sherrill, for Art/Speaks at Juddville Contemporary Clay Studio and Gallery. Explore the art on exhibit and discover something 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…

The phrase "write what you know" has been uttered and dispensed as advice in thousands of writing classes–but what does it actually mean? Are fiction writers intended merely to translate the 'authenticity' of their lived experience on the page? How can writers effectively combine personal inspiration with invention? While the coinage of the term 'autofiction'…

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:…