Current & Upcoming

AUTHOR READING: Julie Ann Laser

Jun 25, 2025 4:00PM

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

Cost Free

Join Julie Ann Laser for a discussion of her new book, Understanding and Effectively Utilizing Experiential Therapy: A Mindfulness and Trauma Sensitive Approach to Extending Talk Therapy. Julie Anne Laser, MSW, LCSW, PhD is a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. She teaches classes on Resilience, Experiential Therapy,…

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AUTHOR READING: Kathleen Rooney & Rachel Jamison Webster

Jul 15, 2025 6:30PM

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

Cost Free

Join us for a reading and conversation with the teaching artists leading this week’s fiction and nonfiction intensives: Kathleen Rooney and Rachel Jamison Webster. Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary works in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of…

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Place Is . . . with Ira Sukrungruang

Aug 05, 2025 1:00PM—2:30PM

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

Cost $30.00

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Every story exists somewhere, and that somewhere, especially in memoir writing, plays a vital part in how we view ourselves and the people in our lives. The writing of a place needs to move beyond the descriptive qualities of setting, that place is about people, class, and history. Writing about place creates layers of narrative…

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Fiction Intensive with Kathleen Rooney

Jul 14, 2025 9:00AM—Jul 18, 2025 12:00PM

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

Cost $350.00

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“I always keep two books in my pocket, one to read and one to write in,” said Robert Louis Stevenson in 1887. In this five-day generative fiction workshop, we will explore how that simple two-part strategy holds true for writers in the 21st century. Through a pattern of in-class readings, discussions, prompts, and sharing, we…

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AUTHOR CONVERSATION: Gabriela Garcia and Christine Vines

May 22, 2025 7:00PM—8:30PM

Kress Pavilion, 7845 Church St., Egg Harbor, WI 54202

Cost Free

Write On is pleased to partner with the Friends of Door County Libraries with a reading and conversation with fiction writers Gabriela Garcia and Christine Vines. Gabriela Garcia is a fiction writer and poet. She is the author of the novel Of Women and Salt, a New York Times and indie bestseller, winner of the International Latino Book Award,…

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Publication Launch: The Boatyard

Apr 27, 2025 11:00AM—12:30PM

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

Cost Free

Join us for a celebration of The Boatyard: How a Rollicking Bunch in Rural Wisconsin Built the Finest Yachts in the World, written by the late James Mihaley. Based on interviews with former employees, customers, and others, The Boatyard tells the story of Palmer Johnson, the famous yacht builders based in Sturgeon Bay. Hear from…

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Embracing Your Lived Experiences in Fiction with Sally Collins

May 13, 2025 1:00PM—2:30PM

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

Cost $30.00

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Join author Sally Collins for an afternoon of tapping into your own experiences and memories to create compelling, complex, and authentic fiction, no matter the genre. “Write what you know,” the old saying goes — but sometimes it’s a struggle. Over the course of the workshop, you will examine the fiction of authors throughout the…

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2025 WASHINGTON ISLAND LITERARY FESTIVAL

Sep 18, 2025—Sep 20, 2025

Various locations, Washington Island

SAVE THE DATES! Thursday, September 18: Community Creative Lab FREE Friday, September 19: writing workshops 10 am – noon and 1:30 – 3:30 pm Saturday, September 20: author panel discussions and presentations, all day

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Creating Memorable Characters: A Door County Reads workshop

Feb 11, 2025 10:00AM—12:00PM

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

Cost $0.00

Write On is pleased to present a free workshop focused on writing characters as part of the Door County Reads 2025 programming. Who was your favorite character in TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea? How can you create characters as identifiable as the ones in his novel? Discover tips and strategies for writing characters…

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Door County Reads Book Discussion

Feb 04, 2025 10:00AM—12:00PM

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

Cost $0.00

Join Write On’s Founding and Artistic Director, Jerod Santek, for a discussion of the 2025 Door County Reads selection, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. The program is free but registration is required as space is limited. For information on other book discussions and Door County Reads programs, please visit the Door County…

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Past | Archive

Memoir Monday

Apr 07, 2025 10:00AM—11:00AM

Sister Bay: Scandia Village, 10560 Applewood Rd. Sturgeon Bay: ADRC, 916 N. 14th Ave.

Fun and Games — Literally!

Apr 06, 2025 12:00PM—2:00PM

Write On, Door County, 4210 Juddville Road, Fish Creek, WI 54212

BOOK DISCUSSION: Great Lakes/Great Books

Apr 03, 2025 10:30AM—12:00PM

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