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Door County writing classes, poetry readings, author appearances, meetups and more. Experience the rich literature community of the Door in inspiring settings.

  • Blei

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    I’m sorry I never met Norb Blei in person. His day of birth was exactly 19 years and 364 days before mine, so he was from my parents’ generation, but, still, I think we might have hit it off. I know we did hit it off on the telephone. I talked to him in 2002 […]

  • John Steinbeck’s Work to be Performed, Discussed at UUFDC

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    Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County (UUFDC) will host author/actor/educator Paul McComas, a Milwaukee native and two-time recipient of the Chicago Reader’s “Critic’s Choice” in Theater and Performance, on Aug.

  • Announcing Inaugural Washington Island Literary Festival

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    “Writing Wisconsin: Facts and Fictions” is the theme for Washington Island’s debut literary festival, Oct. 4 – 6. Featured are novelist, memoirist and former Wisconsin Public Radio host Jean Feraca, and WPR’s “Chapter a Day” host Norman Gilliland.

  • John Steinbeck’s Work to be Performed, Discussed at UUFDC

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    Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County (UUFDC) will host author/actor/educator Paul McComas, a Milwaukee native and two-time recipient of the Chicago Reader’s “Critic’s Choice” in Theater and Performance, on Aug. 31 at 3 pm.

  • Local Author’s Children’s Books Published for Kindle

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    Two illustrated children’s books by m. e. freeman were recently published as e-books for Kindle through Amazon. freeman’s newest edition of the series Adventures of Barnum Biggles, and the title of the edition is “Mystery Meatloaf.”

  • Meeting Michael Perry

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    New York Times bestselling author, humorist, musician, and small town Wisconsinite Michael Perry spoke and signed books at Novel Ideas Bookstore in Baileys Harbor on Aug. 8.

  • Egg Harbor Book Festival

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    Egg Harbor will host the ultimate Door County literary gathering Aug. 16 – 18 and 24 featuring readings, lectures, open mics, live music, and book fair.

  • A Celebration of Books

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    “Martha Egan and I had talked about doing this festival for a couple of years, and delays always pushed the concept into another year,” explains Mary “Casey” Martin of Egg Harbor.

  • Dickinson Poetry Series Features Collaborative Couple

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    Richard Carter and Carolyn Kenney-Carter are the featured artists in the UU Fellowship’s Dickinson Poetry Series on August 14 at 7 pm. Richard E. Carter, geographer, naturalist, aviator, essayist and poet, has a deep connection with earth’s forces and creatures.

  • Writing Our Lives Seminar

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    From Aug. 25 – 30, Bjِrklunden, located just south of Baileys Harbor, will offer the seminar “Writing Our Lives Through Fact & Fiction” with Paul McComas.

  • Readers Rampant to Discuss “The Shoemaker’s Wife”

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    Readers Rampant book club of the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove library meets on August 13 at 2:30 pm to discuss The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani. Cookies will be served and all are welcome.

  • Novel Ideas Hosts Michael Perry Book Signing

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    Novel Ideas Bookstore welcomes back Wisconsin author Michael Perry to discuss and sign his newly released paperback, Visiting Tom on Aug. 8. A New York Times bestselling author, humorist and radio show host from New Auburn, Wis.

  • Nature Journaling Classes at Newport State Park

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    Newport Wilderness Society is a recipient of a 2013 Friends of Wisconsin State Parks Affinity Card Grant to offer Nature Journaling classes at Newport State Park this summer.

  • Check Out the Door County Library Book Sale

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    Starting tomorrow, one of the best opportunities to stock up on late-summer (or year-round) reading material comes to Door County. It’s the Friends of the Door County Libraries Book Sale, and it’s not one to miss.

  • Annual Friends of Door County Libraries Sale

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    Plan to come to the Friends of Door County Libraries Book Sale at the Sturgeon Bay Library from July 25 – 27. As in the past, thousands of items are available for this sale in the basement of the library.

  • Door County Poet Laureate Releases New Chapbook

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    Finishing Line Press in Kentucky announced the forthcoming publication of Estella Lauter’s chapbook Transfiguration: Re-imagining Remedios Varo. Transfiguration is based on the work of a brilliant painter, Remedios Varo (1908-1963), who began her life in Spain, followed a Surrealist poet to Paris during the Spanish Civil War, fled from Marseilles to Mexico City during WWII, and created an extraordinary body of figurative work.

  • Largest Library Sale of the Year

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    Plan to come to the Friends of Door County Libraries Book Sale at the Sturgeon Bay Library from July 25 – 27. As in the past, thousands of items are available for this sale in the basement of the library.

  • “Cheesehead Devotional” Author Wins Best New Writer Award

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    Local author Judy DuCharme, of Ellison Bay, recently won Best New Writer 2013 at the Write to Publish Conference in Wheaton, Ill. The conference is held annually and celebrated its 40th year of assisting writers to meet publishers, editors, and agents in order to improve the craft and heart of writing.

  • Where’s Your Submission?

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    The deadline for our annual Peninsula Pulse’s annual Hal Grutzmacher’s Writers’ Exposé and Photography Jubilee is coming up! You have nothing to lose by submitting your fantastic poetry, prose, or photos – except the chance to win a gorgeous mug from Clay Bay Pottery, some cash, and the opportunity to be published in the pages of the Pulse.

  • Library Book Sales are Underway

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    Local farmers markets aren’t the only place to find hearty sustenance this summer. To coincide with the Saturday morning Sturgeon Bay Farm Market, the Friends of Door County Libraries will hold Saturday morning used book sales.