Current & Upcoming

Art/Speaks Reading

Oct 08, 2023 2:00PM—3:30PM

Write On, Door County, 4210 Juddville Rd., Fish Creek, WI 54212

Cost Free

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…

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The Thin Line: Prose Poems and Flash Fiction with Albert DeGenova (Washington Island Literary Festival)

Sep 22, 2023 1:30PM—3:30PM

Hotel Washington, 354 Range Line Rd., Washington Island, WI 54246

Cost 75.00

Both forms — prose poetry and short short fiction — require close attention to language, imagery, and sound. There are certainly similarities. This workshop will explore the thin line between the two forms with examples and short exercises. Let’s raid the borders of poetry and prose. In flash fiction there are visual immersions, or abstract…

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EKPHRASIS: Poems that Converse with Art with Brenda Cárdenas (Washington Island Literary Festival)

Sep 22, 2023 10:00AM—12:00PM

Art & Nature Center, 1799 Main Rd., Washington Island, WI 54246

Cost 75.00

Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux in her book Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts speaks of the communitarian sense of collaboration that ekphrasis can be when a poet puts “the ekphrastic power of the word…to the service of connection that here and there, now and then, self and other not be isolated.” With such in mind, this workshop will…

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Art/Speaks at Juddville Contemporary Clay Studio Gallery

Sep 01, 2023 11:00AM—12:00PM

Juddville Contemporary Clay Studio Gallery, 8496 State Highway 42, Fish Creek, WI 542122

Write On, Door County is pleased to partner with Juddville Contemporary Clay Studio Gallery on Art/Speaks, a free writing lab encouraging people to write in response to the images on exhibit. Led by local poets Carrie and Peter Sherrill, these 60-minute writing activities are perfect for both beginning and advanced writers in any genre. Sessions are offered…

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POETRY READING: Kate Colby and Nicholas Gulig

Sep 15, 2023 6:30PM—7:30PM

Write On, Door County 4210 Juddville Rd. Fish Creek, WI 54212

Cost $0.00

In partnership with the Friends of Lorine Niedecker and Woodland Pattern, Write On is pleased to host a reading with poet Kate Colby and Wisconsin Poet Laureate Nicholas Gulig. There is a suggested goodwill donation of $10 which will be shared with the poets. Kate Colby is the author of eight books of poetry and…

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Coffee and Conversation with Sean Chambers

Jun 06, 2023 10:00AM—11:30AM

Write On, Door County, 4210 Juddville Rd., Fish Creek, WI 54212

Cost Free

Join us for coffee and light refreshments and a conversation with poet-in-residence Sean Chambers about ways your writing is influenced by music. He’ll speak particularly about funk music’s influence on his work. Sean Chambers, MFA, is a writer of creative nonfiction and poetry, and an education leader passionate about the craft of writing, the deconstruction of rhetoric, cross-cultural…

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ARTIST CONVERSATION: Rebecca Carlton and Camille LeFevre

Jun 15, 2023 6:30PM—8:00PM

Write On, Door County, 4210 Juddville Rd., Fish Creek, WI 54212

Cost Free

JOIN US FOR A CONVERSATION AND LIGHT RECEPTION WITH THE WINNER OF THE 2023 DICK SCUGLIK MEMORIAL RESIDENCY AND FELLOWSHIP AND LOCAL VISUAL ARTIST The Dick Scuglik Memorial Residency and Fellowship is given to a writer with demonstrated skill and interest in ekphrastic writing — writing inspired by visual arts. This year’s winner is poet…

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BLUES AND POETRY

May 21, 2023 2:00PM—4:00PM

Write On, Door County, 4210 Juddville Rd., Fish Creek, WI 54212

Musicians and poets collaborate in real time with a Blues backbeat to blues/jazz-inspired poetry.Come find out what happens when you add a Blue’s lick to a poetry riff.    Hosted by Write On’s Al DeGenova (poet and sax) and Cathy Grier (blues singer songwriter guitarist) with poets Mike Orlock and Mary Beth Mattson.  Suggested donation $10 if you can.  Proceeds benefit Write On Door County…

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IN-NA-PO READING

Apr 28, 2023 7:00PM—8:30PM

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 10341 Water St., Highway 42, Ephraim, WI 54211

Cost Free

Write On is proud to partner with In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets) on their second annual retreat being held here in Door County. Sixteen Indigenous poetry fellows from twelve different tribal nations will gather with distinguished Indigenous faculty for a week of seminars, presentations, and conversations focused on eco-poetry. In-Na-Po is a new organization dedicated to…

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IN-NA-PO READING

Apr 27, 2023 7:00PM—8:30PM

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 10341 Water St., Highway 42, Ephraim, WI 54211

Cost Free

Write On is proud to partner with In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets) on their second annual retreat being held here in Door County. Sixteen Indigenous poetry fellows from twelve different tribal nations will gather with distinguished Indigenous faculty for a week of seminars, presentations, and conversations focused on eco-poetry. In-Na-Po is a new organization dedicated to…

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Past | Archive

Memoir Mondays

Sep 25, 2023 10:00AM—11:00AM

ADRC, 916 N. 14th Ave., Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

Art/Speaks: Idea Gallery

Sep 22, 2023 11:00AM—12:00PM

Idea Gallery, 6551 County Road T, Egg Harbor, WI 54209

EKPHRASIS: Poems that Converse with Art with Brenda Cárdenas (Washington Island Literary Festival)

Sep 22, 2023 10:00AM—12:00PM

Art & Nature Center, 1799 Main Rd., Washington Island, WI 54246

Writing the Ordinary: Exploring the “Familiar” Essay with Meghan O’Gieblyn (Washington Island Literary Festival)

Sep 22, 2023 10:00AM—12:00PM

Red Barn, 1474 S. Shore Dr., Washington Island, WI 54246

Unusual Voices, Odd Perspectives with Shelby Van Pelt (Washington Island Literary Festival)

Sep 22, 2023 10:00AM—12:00PM

Trinity Lutheran Church, 1763 Townline Rd., Washington Island, WI 54246

HOUSE: A Generative Workshop with Lan Samantha Chang (Washington Island Literary Festival)

Sep 22, 2023 1:30PM—3:30PM

Trinity Lutheran Church, 1763 Townline Rd., Washington Island, WI 54246