• Short Story Writing: Structure and Meaning

    Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

    Short Story Writing: Structure and Meaning Ann McArdle This workshop will combine reading and studying classic short stories as examples, in-class writing exercises, and writing a new and original short story. Participants will be expected to work on their writing outside of class hours as well as in class. Thursdays 9 am to noon April […]

  • Charles Olson’s Impact

    Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, Gloucester

    In this six-week course we will explore Charles Olson's core poems and essays and their influence on two generations of poets. We will begin with his students at Black Mountain College and poets who published in the Black Mountain Review and Origin, broadening our scope to include the 1950s Boston School of poetry, the British Poetry Revival, Ethnopoetics […]

  • Hettie Jones: Weekend Memoir Workshop

    Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

    Students in this workshop will begin to create a personal memoir in the context of its own time and place. Guided by exercises and examples from published work, each three-hour session will offer time for both writing and oral critique. Best known for How I Became Hettie Jones, her memoir of the “beat scene” of […]

  • Jungian Study Group Introductory Overview

    Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

      Monthly Meeting on Mondays -7:00 - 9:00 pm   Carl Jung spent his lifetime exploring the relationship of our individual existence to the Grand Cosmology of the world around us. He addressed simple questions which are still being asked today. What is our relationship to ourselves, to others and to the world of nature […]

  • Jungian Study Group

    Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

    Jungian Study Group Monthly Meeting on Mondays -7:00 - 9:00 pm   Carl Jung spent his lifetime exploring the relationship of our individual existence to the Grand Cosmology of the world around us. He addressed simple questions which are still being asked today. What is our relationship to ourselves, to others and to the world […]

  • Writing a Ten-Minute Play – 13th Workshop

    Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

    Tuesdays - 6:00 - 9:00 pm   The 10-minute play format has all the elements of drama – plot, characters, dialogue and conflict. Learn how to put those elements into a short piece written specifically for the stage, for actors and for an audience. Participants will create a 10-minute play for a Festival to be […]

  • NaNoWriMo Workshop for Young Adults: Setting the Scene

    Sawyer Free Library 2 Dale Ave, Gloucester

    Be a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)!  The Sawyer Free Library and the Gloucester Writers Center invite all young adults to a series of workshops to help with the process, culminating in an open-mic style reading at the Gloucester Writers Center. We will meet Mondays in the Young Adult section of the library […]

  • NaNoWriMo Workshop for Young Adults: Character Development

    Sawyer Free Library 2 Dale Ave, Gloucester

    Be a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)!  The Sawyer Free Library and the Gloucester Writers Center invite all young adults to a series of workshops to help with the process, culminating in an open-mic style reading at the Gloucester Writers Center.   We will meet Mondays in the Young Adult section of the […]

  • NaNoWriMo Workshop for Young Adults: Dialogue

    Sawyer Free Library 2 Dale Ave, Gloucester

    Be a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)!  The Sawyer Free Library and the Gloucester Writers Center invite all young adults to a series of workshops to help with the process, culminating in an open-mic style reading at the Gloucester Writers Center.   We will meet Mondays in the Young Adult section of the […]