Place is a powerful–yet often underutilized–tool that writers can harness. In this session, we’ll discuss how integrating nature can deepen and enhance our writing. We’ll examine how elements of the natural world function in a variety of ways on the page, from making a setting more distinctive to influencing plot and tone, even becoming compelling…

Now in its 10th season, Great Lakes/Great Books meets the first Thursday of the month September – May to discuss books that have the Great Lakes as setting or subject matter or that are related to water and/or the Great Lakes region. All are welcome, whether you have read the book or not! The selection…

Write On is a promotional partner for SoCal Science Writing’s free online program. What if our most troubling environmental problems have easy solutions we can all adopt? Join SoCal Science Writing for a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Edward Humes about his latest book, Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal…

Write On partners with the Friends of Newport State Park and the Newport Wilderness Society to present a free one-hour session on observing and writing about the world around us. Today’s facilitator is Renata Golden. Though free, registration is required as space is limited. Renata Golden’s essays and poems have been published in several literary journals…

Write On partners with the Friends of Newport State Park and the Newport Wilderness Society to present a free one-hour session on observing and writing about the world around us. Though free, registration is required as space is limited.

Write On partners with the Friends of Newport State Park and the Newport Wilderness Society to present a free one-hour session on observing and writing about the world around us. Though free, registration is required as space is limited.

Write On is pleased to sponsor with Crossroads at Big Creek, Door County Library, and Door County Pulse, a discussion with Dan Egan about his new book The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance. Dan Egan, author of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, will be at Crossroads at Big…

An intergenerational program for parents/children, grandparents/grandchildren, aunts/uncles/nieces/nephews! The inagural Lorine Niedecker Fellow, Lauren K. Carlson, will present an interactive poetry workshop on mindfulness, poetic form, and observing the natural world. All ages are welcome and family groups are encouraged. Using regional poet Lorine Niedecker’s work as an example, participants will: 1) receive a presentation on…

Let’s take a tip from Mary Oliver and bring our pens and notebooks on a nature walk! We will share some nature poetry (bring a favorite poem along with you!) and take a walk through the natural beauty of Write On’s property. We’ll then do some writing and have a discussion on the subject of…

Door County author Virginia Maher celebrates the release of her latest book, The Forest, with a reading and reception. The forest for Maher is beautiful as a whole, but also in its individual parts. The first section of her book explains Door County's geology, tree anatomy, and forest processes. Stunning photographs taken by the author…