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This interactive workshop will focus on supporting adult participants who aim to either begin a fiction story or advance/enhance works in progress. Participants will be asked to bring their nascent ideas or drafts of a story or scene that they would like to improve or build out. During the first hour, participants will share their…

In fiction, we usually think it’s all about making stuff up, while in non-fiction it’s all about the facts and just the facts. But when we think about writing non-fiction, is that really the case or are the worlds of fiction and non-fiction really all that far apart? What are effective ways we can utilize the…

Dialogue is so important to the scenes we write, whether in a screenplay or a short story. It can communicate the tone of the story, move the plot forward, express important information, reveal insights into our characters, and make the world come to life. In this session, we’ll learn about the different roles dialogue can…

WRITING ON THE DOOR A can’t-miss, multi-genre conference for writers at every stage FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 24 AND 25, STONE HARBOR RESORT, STURGEON BAY A two-day conference for writers of all genres and at all levels of experience. Hear from agents, editors, publishers, and authors about their journeys through the writing world. Featuring Tina…

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 for a discussion of Kate Quinn's historical novel, The Briar Club, the 2026 selection of Door County Reads.  Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March…

Contrary to popular belief, a short story isn’t simply a short version of a novel or a long piece of flash fiction. The short story is its own art form with its own nuance and emphasis. Edgar Allen Poe spoke of the form as providing “a single and unique effect” and believed that every word…

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.…

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.…