Join Amber Blaeser-Wadzala for an environmental, collaborative workshop fo all ages! You’ll go for a walk along Write On’s trails, stopping occasionally to observe the world for extended periods of time and to write down your observations. Through various prompts and by looking at both the broader landscape and a single object to study and…

All around us, in all seasons, the natural world exists, persists. Let us reflect on the lands, waters, skies, space, of all the places we have lived, loved, dreamed of, and called home. What are the multiple geographies you know, and want to know, both in Wisconsin and outside of it? What stories can you…

Write On is proud to take part in the Ridges’ Festival of Nature by offering a hike of our property: Discover Write On, Door County’s 59 acres of hiking trails, visit Norb Blei’s writing studio, The Coop, and learn about his impact on saving Door County’s open spaces. We’ll hike, hear passages from Norb’s book,…

Join us for Saturday only of our two-day writing conference focused on nature and the environment. Saturday's sessions include: Keynote with Daniel Slager, publisher & CEO, Milkweed Editions Morning breakout sessions with Jill Stukenberg (prose); Michael Walsh (poetry); Chera Van Falcon Burg (advocacy); Libby Humprhies (Hike and Write: The Ridges) Panel Discussion: Eco-Poetics with Kimberly Blaeser, Nicholas Gulig,…

Join us for Friday only of our two-day writing conference focused on nature and the environment. Friday’s presenters include: Keynote with Dan Egan Morning breakout sessions with Constance Malloy (prose), Caryl Pagel (poetry), Lindsey Taylor (advocacy), Carrie and Peter Sherrill (Hike and Write: Art/Speaks) Panel discussion on Writing the Nature of the Door with Kathleen…

This Mother’s Day weekend, celebrate Mother Earth with two days focused on writing about nature and the environment with leading voices in the field. Join us at the Landmark Resort in Egg Harbor for the 2025 Writing On The Door Conference: Writing the World. Whether you are a poet, nonfiction writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, or…

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…