Participants in Write On’s year-long program for women who want to write will share poems, essays, and stories they have written over the past several months. Come celebrate the conclusion of this program and welcome participants in the 2025 program!

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.…

Join us to celebrate the publication of Kevin Hess’s debut poetry collection, On Love and Light in a World of Loss. A light reception will follow the reading. About the book: This volume was born of love, pain, and grief. It represents a cumulation of reflections going back 20 or 25 years. Love in loss…

Write On invites you to celebrate the holidays and the publication of of Anne Emerson’s new book, A Home for Hattie. In her new picture book, Anne Emerson tells the loving story of a search for a home for Hattie, an 11-year-old Labradoodle. Join Anne for this free event celebrating the publication, on Wednesday, December…

Join us for a reading of works created in our creative lab, Art/Speaks. Led by poets Carrie and Peter Sherrill, people gather in galleries and museums around the county to be inspired by visual art to create poems, stories, or other pieces of writing. The reading is free and open to all ages. Light refreshments…

In celebration of Hans Christian’s newest CD, Melodiya, and Chera Van Falcon Burg’s new book of poetry, What We Can See, this event will feature Hans playing selected solo compositions as well as musical collaborations with Chera’s performance of poetry. Hans Christian is a Grammy-nominated cellist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer based in Sturgeon Bay, where…

Join us for a special event featuring award-winning novelist Toya Wolfe. Toya will share new work and take questions from the audience. A light reception will follow. Toya Wolfe grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago’s South Side. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Her writing has appeared…

Celebrate the publication of Madison-based poet Catherine Jagoe’s latest collection, Praying to the God of Small Things. Joining Catherine will be Door County poets Sharon Auberle and Alessandra Simmons Rolffs. Sharon Auberle is a writer and amateur photographer who lives in Door County, Wisconsin. She served as the county Poet Laureate for 2017–2019 and her work…

Join us for a celebration of the release of local author Judy DuCharme’s tenth book, Who Will Rescue Us? A Love Story. Light refreshments will be served. About the book A timely novella ripped from today’s headlines, Who Will Rescue Us is the story of a young couple, Sofia and Hector, who work at a…

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,…