Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month as we present a story telling event with our writers-in-residence. A light reception will follow. Presented in partnership with Open Door Pride and Northern Door Pride. Dinah Dale is a development professional for progressive political campaigns and nonprofit organizations, and has driven more than $200 million in collective donations for such…

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,…

Join us for an afternoon of reading and music celebrating the publication of former Write On resident Rebecca Meacham’s latest collection, Feather Rousing. The title piece of the collection was the result of a 2018 Poetry Meets Music with Midsummer’s Music. Rebecca created the piece in response to music by Charles-Valentin Allkan. We are delighted…

Write On is pleased to co-sponsor with the Friends of Door County Library a reading and conversation with author Nick Petrie from his latest book, The Price You Pay. For more information, visit www.doorcountylibrary.org. About the book: In this propulsive new thriller from the bestselling and award-winning author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash must follow his…

Over the past two months, poets and prose writers have gathered to view and hear about visual artist Rebecca Carlton’s installation Are We Listening? Tonight, those writers share aloud the poems and prose pieces they have created in response to the exhibit. Free and open to all ages. Light refreshments will be served.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with the launch of Albert DeGenova’s new book Human Nature, Mauricio Kilwein Guevara doing his first Door County reading, and Tori Grant Welhouse reading new work and poems from her award-winning book Vaginas Need Air.  Albert DeGenova is an award-winning poet, publisher, and teacher, as well as the Executive Director of Write On, Door County. He…

Join other Wisconsinites for a reading of poetry in their native languages to celebrate International Mother Language Day. In collaboration with Chippewa Valley Writers Guild, Driftless Writing Center, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission, and Woodland Pattern, we present an evening of poems read in multiple languages. Join us to celebrate the linguistic…

Writing the Truth of Our Lives is a year-long mentoring program for women who want to write but who have felt intimidated or discouraged from doing so. Throughout 2023, thirteen women met monthly with facilitators/mentors Ann Heyse and Tori Martinez. They discussed the skill and practice of writing, experimented with multiple genres, and received and…

Write On is pleased to present a reading by three Kimbilio Fellows, currently in residence at Write On: Tara Betts, Angie Chatman, and Camille Forbes. The reading is free and open to all but registration is required as seating is limited. A light reception follows the reading. Kimbilio® means “safe haven” in Swahili. We are…

As part of Write On’s collaboration with StoryStudio Chicago, we are pleased to welcome two of their fiction writers for a week-long residency. Join us for a conversation with Spencer Hendrixson and Katherine Oh Yeaple about their writing process. Coffee and light refreshments will be served. Spencer Hendrixson is a writer born/raised/based in Chicago. His…