Congratulations on writing a first draft of your novel! This class provides helpful approaches to evaluate and revise your manuscript with a focus on plot and character development. We’ll consider how to deepen the character arc by analyzing the protagonist’s needs, desires, wounds, and the internal and external conflicts that deter or promote growth and…

Write On is pleased to present a free workshop focused on writing characters as part of the Door County Reads 2025 programming. Who was your favorite character in TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea? How can you create characters as identifiable as the ones in his novel? Discover tips and strategies for writing characters…

Write On returns to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) annual conference. Meet Executive Director Al DeGenova and Founding and Artistic Director Jerod Santek in the bookfair at Booth 710. Find out about our writers’ residency programs; fellowship opportunities; writers’ retreats; conferences and workshops and much more!

Great work is often unrecognizable from an author’s first draft. How do you know what to keep and what to discard when approaching revisions? In this session, we will discuss the revision process, share strategies for diagnosing problems in our work, and explore techniques that will bring greater clarity and purpose to the next draft.…

Have you always wanted to invent your own poetic form but don’t know where to start? Featuring the duplex, the golden shovel, the sonnenizio, and the American sentence acrostic — all forms invented by contemporary living poets — this intensive breaks down the process of formal invention and reveals the process behind the product. Beginning…

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 us at the Landmark Resort in Egg Harbor for the 2025 Writing On The Door confernece: Writing the World.  Whether you are a poet, nonfiction writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, or write for an environmental organization, this conference has plenty to offer you. Our celebrated faculty will provide you with insight into writing about the…

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…

Telling stories is something that we all do. Storytelling is a wonderful way to think about who you are, what you have done, and what is next for you in your life. Think of it as an organized reflection on your life. Prompts and presentations will stimulate memories and, together, we will write and tell…

Telling stories is something that we all do. Storytelling is a wonderful way to think about who you are, what you have done, and what is next for you in your life. Think of it as an organized reflection on your life. Prompts and presentations will stimulate memories and, together, we will write and tell…