Readings

Current & Upcoming

What’s Your Story?: Prose Open Mic

Jun 22, 2025 2:00PM—4:00PM

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

Cost Free

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.…

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AUTHOR READING: Julie Ann Laser

Jun 25, 2025 4:00PM

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

Cost Free

Join Julie Ann Laser for a discussion of her new book, Understanding and Effectively Utilizing Experiential Therapy: A Mindfulness and Trauma Sensitive Approach to Extending Talk Therapy. Julie Anne Laser, MSW, LCSW, PhD is a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She teaches classes on Resilience, Experiential Therapy,…

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Poetry Meets Music

Jun 27, 2025 7:00PM—9:00PM

MUSE Sturgeon Bay, 330 Jefferson St., 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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Interactive Storytelling with Jane Hensge

Jul 01, 2025 4:00PM—5:30PM

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

Cost Free

Join novelist, comedian, and improv artist Jane Hensge for an evening of interactive storytelling. Jane will share stories about growing up in a small town in Iowa on the banks of the Mississippi River, a location that has a lot in common with Door County. Jane Hensge began her writing career in the early days…

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Poetry Meets Music

Jul 06, 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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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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Book Launch: Voices by Angela Bier

Jul 17, 2025 6:00PM

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

Join us for the launch of Angela Bier’s new novel, Voices. About Voices: When Elena Tannin moves to Belvedere in her junior year, she worries about fitting her high-achieving self into a new, small-town school. Elena quickly adjusts academically and socially, finding friends in the Nerd Herd and even a possible boyfriend. Things are going…

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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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What’s Your Story?: Prose Open Mic

Jul 27, 2025 2:00PM—4:00PM

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

Cost Free

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.…

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Local Authors Discuss: Door County as Setting and Inspiration

Aug 02, 2025 10:00AM—12:00PM

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

Cost Free

Write On’s Door County Published Authors Collective (DCPAC) presents the on-going series, Local Authors Discuss, in which writers address a specific genre or theme. Today’s program focuses on Door County as both setting and inspiration. Patrick Baird, Kathleen Harris, and Kevin O’Donnell will discuss how the people and landscape of the county have influenced their…

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Past | Archive

Poetry Meets Music

Jun 15, 2025 4:00PM—6:00PM

MUSE Sturgeon Bay, 330 Jefferson St., Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

An Evening with Dave Cubiak

Jun 10, 2025 6:30PM

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

BOOK LAUNCH: Theo’s American Bistro Cookbook: The Dishes that Defined Us in Door County

Jun 08, 2025 1:00PM

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

What’s Your Story?: Prose Open Mic

May 25, 2025 2:00PM—4:00PM

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

AUTHOR CONVERSATION: Gabriela Garcia and Christine Vines

May 22, 2025 7:00PM—8:30PM

Kress Pavilion, 7845 Church St., Egg Harbor, WI 54202

What’s Your Story?: Prose Open Mic

Apr 27, 2025 2:00PM—4:00PM

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