A Note from the Directors' Desks

We hope the New Year is treating you and your family well.

We want to begin this installment of The Write Now with a poem about wintertime beginnings, written by abstract artist and architect Richard Meier, titled, "Winter Morning."

Shyly coated in greys, blacks, browns - / to keep us out of sight of the cold - / we weren't expecting this this morning: sun / and shadows, like a summer's evening, like summer / teasing. 

In this letter, you'll get a glimpse of what the weeks ahead will look like for Write On, Door County. 

First, you'll find information about the upcoming deadline for our 2022 Dick Scuglik Residency and Scholarship, which will be awarded to a poet or other writer interested in ekphrastic writing. Apply today! You'll want to act fast. The application deadline is February 15.

Next up, another application deadline coming on February 15. Award-winning writer and Rutgers MFA Program Director Paul Lisicky will be joining us at the Writing Center in April. Lisicky's Master Class is application only. Submit before the deadline for your chance to get in on the action.

Someways down, we've included information about two upcoming events in collaboration with Door County Reads which we're incredibly excited about: Writing Wisconsin (February 8) and Supporting Wisconsin Writers (February 10). You won't want to miss these online panel discussions specific to writing in Wisconsin.

You'll also find information about sponsorship opportunities for our Young Writers Conference. This is your chance to sponsor individual middle and high school age students who will be attending our first writing conference of 2022! Act now to take advantage of our Early Bird Discount and give a student the gift of writing.

Finally, you'll find a video clip from Write On's recent interview with renowned Dakota writer, Diane Wilson. Wilson is leading our first Master Class of 2022, which will begin on Monday, January 24. This clip was included in last week's members only newsletter. If you would like to become a member and gain access to exclusive content featuring the writers passing through our doors, visit our website.

Thank you for your continued support of our organization.

Warmly,

2022 Residency Scholarship Closing Soon!

Write On, Door County is pleased to offer the Dick Scuglik Memorial Residency and Scholarship to a poet or other writer with demonstrated ability and interest in ekphrastic writing.

The application deadline is February 15, 2022. The residency is awarded annually the third week of June.

The program honors the memory of Dick Scuglik and his passion for painting and books.

The selected writer will be paired with a Door County visual artist. The artist and writer will share work with each other. Each will create new work in response to other’s work prior to the start of the residency.

During the residency, both writer and artist will participate in a public event at which the new work is shared, along with a conversation about the creative process.

While ekphrastic writing is most common in poetry, Write On welcomes applications from all genres, provided the work sample submitted fits the classification of ekphrasis.

A scholarship fund is available to assist the writer with travel expenses related to the residency.

Master Class Application Deadline

What does it mean to write creative nonfiction and memoir in 2022?

How to write out of our personal urgency while also asking questions about community, survival, isolation, and power—all that is wrong with the world and all we’d like to make better?

How does it feel to be alive right now?

We’ll think about those questions, and more, alongside all the matters of craft: voice, structure, focus, aboutness, sonics, description, polarity, openings, and closings.

We’ll look at some excerpts of outside work, but your writing will be our primary text. There will be time for exercises.

Along the way we’ll work hard, take care of each other, and make sure that joy and seriousness share the same space.

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Upcoming Events

• PROSE MASTER CLASS: Telling True Stories with Diane Wilson
  • January 24, 9 AM

• GREAT LAKES / GREAT BOOKS: The Cadottes: a Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior
  • February 3, 10:30AM - 12PM

• SONG WRITING WORKSHOP with Cathy Grier
  • February 6, 3:00 - 4:30PM

• ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION: Writing Wisconsin
  • February 8, 7:00 - 8:30PM

• ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION: Supporting Wisconsin Writers
  • February 10, 7:00 - 8:30PM

• APPLICATION DEADLINE for Paul Lisicky's Prose Master Class, "On Urgency"
  • February 15

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