Since its founding in 2010, the Gloucester Writers Center has hosted hundreds of events including readings, classes, lectures, films, writers-in-residence and community events.

A working writers center in a working town, the GWC is housed in the home of Gloucester’s first poet laureate, Vincent Ferrini.  For fifty years Ferrini lived and wrote poetry in his home and framing studio at 126 East Main Street.  After his death in 2007 the project of opening the house as a living memorial began with Ferrini’s nephew, Henry Ferrini, long-time friend Annie Thomas, friend and Unitarian Universalist minister Paul Sawyer and New York writer André Spears.  The GWC was incorporated before Sawyer’s death in 2010 and soon received 501(c)(3) status.

The GWC’s philosophy is based on the spirit of poetic inquiry practiced by Vincent Ferrini and friend and fellow poet Charles Olson.

Read a brief history of the Gloucester Writers Center from the Cape Ann Beacon here.