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.…
View MoreAUTHOR 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,…
View MorePoetry 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,…
View MoreInteractive 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…
View MorePoetry 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,…
View MoreAUTHOR 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…
View MoreBook 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…
View MorePoetry 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,…
View MoreWhat’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.…
View MoreLocal 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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