Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the Dave Cubiak Door County Mystery Series with award-winning author Patricia Skalka. In this special program, Patricia will discuss the ideas that inspired each book and read excerpts that trace Cubiak’s journey as he navigates the rocky road of grief and moves forward in life. USA Today call…

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,…

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…

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…

“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…

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,…

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…

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…

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

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…