Sigrid Olsen: My Life Redesigned

Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States

In this visually rich memoir, Sigrid Olsen traces her journey from art student entrepreneur to nationally known fashion designer, and full circle back to her roots as an artist and spiritual seeker. After multiple major upheavals that left her gasping for air, Sigrid did what any burned-out, creatively compulsive, former-hippie, fashion executive would do…she packed […]

William Bernhardt

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Noted author   William Bernhardt   stops by the GWC for a conversation about writing Monday, July 9th, 7:30 PM   William Bernhardt is an American thriller/mystery/suspense fiction author best known for his "Ben Kincaid" series of books. With sales of over 10 million books, William Bernhardt is one of the most popular writing instructors in the nation, […]

“Hamlet and Buddha: ‘Words, Words, Words’ and Silence” Mike Sperber

BUDDHA and HAMLET in BEDLAM: SYNOPSIS The play is set at McLean Hospital where Hamlet is admitted, misdiagnosed “psychotic with homicidal hallucinations,” and prescribed Haldol, an antipsychotic medication. Hamlet requests a second opinion and Dr. Frank Faith diagnoses “parasomnia,” discontinues Haldol, and cures Hamlet through holistic psychiatry: body (fencing), mind (playwriting), and spirit (meditation). In […]

David Herd

  Building on his work with the Refugee Tales project (www.refugeetales.org), and taking the contemporary fact of detention as its starting point, David Herd’s talk considers the interlocking attempts of Charles Olson, Hannah Arendt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to arrive at new forms of political space.   David Herd’s collections of poetry […]

Erica Funkhouser and Soren Stockman

Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States

In addition to Post & Rail, Erica Funkhouser has published four books of poetry with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and one with Alice James Books. Included in Sure Shot (HM 1992) are three dramatic monologues in the voices of 19th century American women: Sacagawea, Louisa May Alcott, and Annie Oakley. The Oakley poem was adapted for […]

Ann Charters

Among other books, Ann Charters has written & edited two books about & by Charles Olson in the 1960s, compiled a bibliography of Jack Kerouac & wrote his first biography (1973), and edited ten editions of the college textbook THE STORY AND ITS WRITER (1985-2019).   Her talk is  A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE: REVISITING […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Ammon Hillman

Jewish temple worship and Christian communion are both the direct product and development of late Bronze Age (1200-1000 BCE) ritual orgy.  So-called Echidnaic-Ios rites sprang from the genius of a single pre-classical venom specialist, a female immigrant to ancient Georgia, who pioneered the use of her vagina as a device for bio-engineering and administering psychotropic […]

Raymond Foye

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Raymond Foye was born in 1957 in Lowell, Mass. He is a writer, curator, editor and publisher. He studied with Stan Brakhage at the Art Insitute of Chicago. He was a literary editor with City Lights Books, New Directions, and Black Sparrow Press. He was Director of Exhibitions and Publications at Gagosian Gallery from 1990-95. […]

Symbiotic Earth

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Symbiotic Earth How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution. Explores the life and ideas of Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative: life evolves through collaboration.  "An amazing film...I was on the edge of my seat the entire film, completely engrossed in the story […]

Bayliss Birthday Bash

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

To celebrate the September 7 birth of Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009), the writer who worked and died in the city of his fiction tetralogy GLOUCESTERMAN (the novels Prologos, Gloucesterbook, Gloucestertide, and Gloucestermas),  local residents will read and comment on selected passages.Presenters include Saira Austin, Diane Faissler, Steve Farrell, Doug Guidry, Paul McGeary, Susan Oleksiw, Ann Rhinelander, […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Unburying Malcom Miller

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Unburying Malcolm Miller Filmmakers Kevin Carey and Mark Hillringhouse bring the outsider poet Malcolm Miller back to life in this riveting documentary. Miller found early success with his poetry and a close friendship with McGill classmate Leonard Cohen, but later succumbed to mental illness and obscurity and living a life on the margins. In spite […]

100 Thousand Poets for Change Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Join poets, musicians, and artists around the world in a celebration to promote peace, sustainability and justice and to call for serious social, environmental and political change. Bring a poem, a song or a short piece to share. Each reader gets up to five minutes. For more information on the global movement, visit 100tpc.org.

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

College Essay Program Training Night

Every Fall, the Gloucester Writers Center organizes volunteers to go into Gloucester High School to help seniors with their college essays. You do not necessarily need to be a writer, but good reading and editing skills are a plus. The volunteers sit in the high school library, and students come in with drafts in all […]

Wendy Drexler, Nancy Esposito and Holly Guran

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

      Wendy Drexler’s third poetry collection, Before There Was Before, was published by Iris Press in March 2017. A three-time Pushcart-Prize nominee, she’s also the author of Western Motel (Turning Point, 2012) and the chapbook Drive-Ins, Gas Stations, the Bright Motels (Pudding House, 2007). Her poems have appeared widely or are forthcoming in […]

Fish Tales: Deadline

Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States

Fish Tales True stories told live. Deadline Friday October 19 7:30 pm Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester Featured storytellers include: Phoebe Potts Heather Atwood Charles Nazarian Bill Wrinn and more!

Charles Olson Lecture: Ed Sanders

Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

This illustrated lecture, “A Life of Olson, with Glyphs,” will feature a sequence of projected color Glyphs with text and comments on key points in Charles Olson’s life and times, including the personal interactions of Olson with Ed Sanders beginning in 1962 and continuing until Olson’s passing in early 1970. Included will be a tracing […]

Ed Sanders. Broken Glory.

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Broken Glory deals with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.  Fifty years after there are still unanswered questions about whether his murder was the result of a conspiracy. Broken Glory is a graphic history told in epic verse of Bobby Kennedy's life and times leading up to the fateful 1968 election campaign, with 100 illustrations […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Rough Seas: Reading and Reflections on War and Writing. With Jim Grigg and Heather Dupont.

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

In Honor of Veterans Day presenting  Rough Seas Readings and Reflections on War and Writing   from the Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop   Join us for an evening to honor Veterans Day Featured Readers James Grigg, Poet, Viet Nam Veteran  Heather Dupont, Poet, V.A. Health Professional   Sign up at 7:15 for the Veterans […]

Speaking of Olson: Kate Colby, Amanda Cook and Kate Tarlow Morgan

Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States

Women's Work on Charles Olson Kate Colby is author of seven books of poetry, including The Arrangements (Four Way Books, 2018). A book of literary essays, Dream of the Trenches (Noemi Books, 2019), is forthcoming. Fruitlands won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2007. She has received awards […]

Randy Ross

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

God Bless Cambodia is a picaresque comedy about a never-married hypochondriac who takes a trip around the world hoping to change his luck with love. It's an unflinching look at how men feel about sex, love, marriage, and massage parlors. The book features adult situations, adult language, and more adult situations. "A very entertaining story […]

Fish Tales: OMG!

Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Nancy Schwoyer and Rosemary Haughton: Reclaiming Home-Making

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Join Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer on Wednesday, Dec. 5,7:30 p.m. at the Gloucester Writers Center for a conversation about the book they are working on. It is based on their experiences as founders of Wellspring House and their many years of practicing "radical hospitality". In their words:"The phrase 'home-making' has traditionally meant women's work, something […]

The Gift of a Poem

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

The Gloucester Writers Center invites you to  share a poem you have given as a gift, a poem given to you as a gift, or a poem dedicated to someone to share as we enter the season of giving.

Elicitor Launch

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Join us for a reading of work from the Gloucester High School Elicitor.

Mike Sperber: Joan of Arc and Doctor Dark in Bedlam’s Park

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

  "Joan of Arc and Doctor Dark in Bedlam's Park" is a one-act play with four scenes.  It explores how a teenage, illiterate, cross-dressing, peasant girl, who did not know how to ride a horse, became commander-in-chief of the French army and turned the tide on the Hundred Years' War, the most brutal, barbaric and […]

Brenda Coultas

Brenda Coultas’ poetry can be found in the recent anthologies: Readings in Contemporary Poetry published by the  DIA art foundation, What is Poetry (Just Kidding, I Know You Know) Interviews from the Poetry Project newsletter, (1983-2009) and Symmetries Three years of Art and Poetry at Dominque Levy. This fall Coultas was a featured blogger for […]

From Infinite People to Know Fish

Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, Gloucester

  FROM INFINITE PEOPLE TO KNOW FISH "The Authors are in eternity"             --    W. Blake                                             To be a gathering of attention toward the work of Vincent […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Jennifer Martelli is the author of My Tarantella (Bordighera Press). Most recently, her work has appeared in Tinderbox Poetry, The Bitter Oleander, Sugar House Review, The Baltimore Review, and The Superstition Review. She has been nominated for both the Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes and is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council […]

A Reading of Rockport Writing Groups

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

The Gloucester Writers Center invites members of two long-standing Rockport writing groups to share their work. With readings by Connie Komack, Joe Muzio, Chuck Francis, Caroline Haines, Jean Keith, Holly Herring, and Joe Rukeyser.

Dan Wilcox

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Dan Wilcox is the host of the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany, N.Y. and is a member of the poetry performance group "3 Guys from Albany".  As a photographer, he claims to have the world's largest collection of photos of unknown poets.  He has been a featured reader at […]

Elicitor Launch Party

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

    Join us as we celebrate the work of Gloucester High School students with the launch of the literary magazine, the Elicitor.  Readers to be announced.

International Women’s Day

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Join us as we celebrate International Women's Day by reading writing by women.  Bring a short piece (up to 5 minutes) by a woman to share with the group, or come to listen.

Otto Laske and Zvi Sesling

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Otto Laske was born in what is now West Poland (Wroclaw/Breslau) three years before the onset of World War II. His first poetry emerged in German at age 15, perhaps as a result of war trauma and the return of his father from Russian prison camps when he was 11. After studies in music, the […]

Fish Tales: Family Secrets

Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

   

Linda McCarriston and Robert Booth

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

  Like Vincent Ferrini, poet Linda McCarriston is a native of Lynn. She has two sons and four granddaughters. It took her much longer to settle in Gloucester than it did Vincent (she treasures a copy of No Smoke that he gave her in 2002). Educated in Lynn's Catholic schools, she won some high-school writing […]

Brenda Coultas

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Brenda Coultas’ poetry can be found in the recent anthologies: Readings in Contemporary Poetry published by the  DIA art foundation, What is Poetry (Just Kidding, I Know You Know) Interviews from the Poetry Project newsletter, (1983-2009) and Symmetries Three years of Art and Poetry at Dominque Levy. This fall Coultas was a featured blogger for […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Yonghong Gu and Joseph Torra

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Yonghong Gu is from Suzhou, China. She is a visiting scholar at UMass Boston. She has studied history, literature and business. She has worked in education and business.   Joseph Torra is a poet, fiction writer, editor and teacher.   Being Exiled is a novel in progress by Yonghong Gu. She and Joseph Torra are […]

Synesthesia and the Fusion of the Arts. Martin Ray and Stephen Bates.

2 Masconomo Street, Machester

    A program of photographs, haiku, and clarinet compositions originating from Halibut Point.   Friday evening, April 12, 7:30 at the home of Stephen and Isabella Bates, 2 Masconomo Street, Manchester. Seating 60. Reservations required, (978) 526-1443 or clarone@comcast.net.  Admission is free. Donate $20 at the door to the Gloucester Writers Center, receive a […]

Schuyler Hoffman and Ruth Maasen

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Schuyler Hoffman has published two books of poetry: Words in a Foreign Language and The Spaces Between as well as the collaborative poetry-music CD Sacrifice. His work has appeared in The Café Review and in The Anthology of Post-Beat Poetry in translation in China. His new book Signal to Noise explores the myriad ways that […]

Neeli Cherkovski

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Neeli Cherkovski was horn in Los Angeles and has Lived in San Francisco since 1974.  He is the author of many books of poetry and prose and books translated into Turkish, German, Italian, and Spanish.  He is recipient of a PEN Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature and the Jack Mueller poetry prize for […]

Artweek: What Holds Us Together

Maritime Gloucester Harbor Loop

A mosaic is made of many pieces together, as is our fine city. Three organizations are collaborating to present The Mosaic that is Gloucester: MosaicGloucester; Maritime Gloucester; and the Gloucester Writer’s Center. In Part 3 of the event, The Gloucester Writers Center and The Maud/Olson Library will present What Holds Us Together: This Place in […]

Hollywood Calls! From Bestselling Book to Big Screen Sensation

Cape Ann Cinema and Stage 21 Main Street, Gloucester

  On Sunday, May 5, from 1 to 3 p.m., Literary Cape Ann presents three of our region’s best-selling authors sharing stories about how their books became popular movies and what that career-changing experience was like. Our panelists are Rodman Philbrick, author of “Freak the Mighty,” a middle grade book still taught in schools and […]

Gerrit Lansing’s Moon Birthday

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Come remember and celebrate Gerrit Lansing with poems, song and stories.

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Don Wellman and Cheryl Clark Vermeulen

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Donald Wellman, poet, editor, and translator, his recent book of poetry is Essay Poems (Dos Madres: Loveland OH). Other books from Dos Madre include The Cranberry Island Series and A North Atlantic Wall; Prolog Pages was issued by Ahadada (2009); Fields (Light and Dust 1995). For several years, he edited O.ARS, a series of anthologies, […]

Fish Tales: Radio Days

Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

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Jay Featherstone

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Jay Featherstone’s Glass is true to its title as these poems allow the reader to look straight though language to see clearly how joy and loss are inextricably connected (“On the path to impoverishment,/tenderness. // In the long taking away, / hearing festival sounds / through all the streets of the city.”). From Wilkes-Barre to […]

Nancy Schwoyer and Rosemary Haughton

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

The word 'Community' is the core of Wellspring's Mission Statement, created in 1987.  That word expresses the way in which Wellspring's life, work and decisions developed in a relational organizational model, with an ethic of friendship and the practice of  mutuality.  In the book about Wellspring that Rosemary and Nancy are writing, they explore how […]

JoeAnn Hart and Greg Gibson

Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States

In July 1976, a twenty-four-year-old white woman, Margo Olson, was found in a shallow grave in Stamford, Connecticut, with an arrow piercing through her heart. A few weeks later, Howie Carter, her black boyfriend, was killed by the police. Howie and Margo’s interracial relationship held a distorted mirror to the author’s own, with Howie’s best […]

Mary Baine Campbell

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Mary Baine Campbell is a Cambridge-based poet and scholar (of literature and the histories of travel, geography, science and utopia), as well as a climate activist.  Her publications include The Witness and the Other World, Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe and poetry collections The World, the Flesh, and Angels and Trouble, […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Aine Greaney

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Áine’s presentation will focus on writing personal essays--such as those published in The Boston Globe Magazine, Brevity, The New York Times Modern Love series and other publications. She will discuss the risks and rewards of writing about our personal experiences, including why and how she wrote and published her just released essay collection (about immigration) 30+ […]

Judith Wright and Tom Fels

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Judith Wright was born in 1939 and is an artist living in Gloucester, Massachusetts.  She became a Freedom Rider and was jailed in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1961. Later, in 1964, she spent a year in Meridian, Mississippi working with her husband Sib in the Civil Rights Movement. Acts of Resistance; A Freedom Rider […]

Patrick Donnelly

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

PATRICK DONNELLY is the author of four books of poetry, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012, a Lambda Literary Award finalist), and The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Donnelly is director […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Cathy Curtis on Nell Blaine

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Cathy Curtis is the author of two previous biographies of women artists, RESTLESS AMBITION: GRACE HARTIGAN, PAINTER (Oxford University Press, 2015) and A GENEROUS VISION: THE CREATIVE LIFE OF ELAINE DE KOONING (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her next book will be a biography of the novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick. Curtis was elected to a two-year […]

Ann Charters

Ann Charters will be talking about how Charles Olson influenced her a young writer.  She met him in 1968, after she had spent the years 1963-65 in the graduate English program at Columbia.  Her dissertation was about 19th century writers in the Berkshires, with chapters on Melville and Hawthorne.  When she began to read Olson […]

Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Join us for a night of fun and reading of three completely different kinds of books! Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau are both charter members of The Finish Line, a writer's group that formed in the fall of 2011 and continues today. Both women have published books, Boudreau's novel,  The Frenchman in 2013 and Keddy's Serial […]

Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Join us for a night of fun and reading of three completely different kinds of books! Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau are both charter members of The Finish Line, a writer's group that formed in the fall of 2011 and continues today. Both women have published books, Boudreau's novel, The Frenchman in 2013 and Keddy's Serial Monogamy earlier […]

Eloise and Art Hodges

Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States

Eloise Weld Hodges grew up in Essex, then moved in 1954 with her family to Dolliver’s Neck, Gloucester.  As Associate Editor and feature writer for North Shore Magazine (1975-80), she wrote about people and places that illuminated that part of the world.  She will read from Wishbone, a collection of essays about family events and related […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

College Essay Program Training

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Every Fall, the Gloucester Writers Center organizes volunteers to go into Gloucester High School to help seniors with their college essays. You do not necessarily need to be a writer, but good reading and editing skills are a plus. The volunteers sit in the high school library, and students come in with drafts in all […]

Ellen Wilkin

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Ellen Wilkin has been writing for 45 years as a poet and essayist, as a technical writer and editor in the computer industry, and as a novelist. Several of her poems were published in THE POETRY JAM SESSIONS, a collection she also edited. Her current project is a science fiction/time travel novel.  She also runs […]

Mitch Manning and James Stotts

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Mitch Manning is the author of city of water (Arrowsmith, 2019). He’s taught poetry in central China and his poems have been read in Basra, southern Iraq as part of the Boston to Basra Project. He teaches in the English and Labor Studies programs at UMass Boston, and is Associate Director at the Joiner Institute for the Study of […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Cape Ann Plein Air Reading

Beauport Hotel

The Gloucester Writers Center and Cape Ann Plein Air invite you to share you plein air writing. Join us at Beauport Hotel for an open-mic reading on Wednesday, October 9 at 7:00. Below is a list of locations painters participating in Cape Ann Plein Air often paint from, as well as some prompts for these […]

Patrick Barron and David Blair

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Patrick Barron grew up in the Pacific Northwest, lived in Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, and Italy for a number of years, and is now based in Boston, where he teaches at the University of Massachusetts. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in various journals. His most recent books are Towards the River's Mouth (Verso […]

Charles Olson Lecture: Stephen Fredman

Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

Stephen Fredman is the author of "'Difficulties Are Once More': Charles Olson, John Dewey, and the Rhythm of Experience.”  Stephen's talk considers three features of Olson's writing--rhythm, history, and performance--as they occur in works composed during his time at Black Mountain College. The American pragmatist, John Dewey, will be our companion, especially his Art as […]

Stephen Kalaghan

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Stephen Kalaghan is a long time Cape Ann area resident, having lived in Gloucester, MA and Rockport, MA since 1990. Originally from Weymouth, MA, he is a 1986 graduate of Cotting School, in Lexington, MA, and a 1994 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where he earned a B.A. Degree, majoring in Theatre […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Nadine Boughton and Scott Withiam

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Nadine Boughton, M.A., is a writer/poet, collage artist, coach and teacher. Her writing has been published in literary journals, trade books and presented in a number of venues. She studied writing and voice with teachers in the oral tradition, including David Whyte. Nadine’s visual art is represented by the Matthew Swift Gallery in Gloucester and […]

Joey Gould and Amanda Cook

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Joey Gould is a non-binary poet from Hopedale who tutors & often works with Mass Poetry for content writing, event planning, hosting, & performing. Their writing has appeared in Drunk Monkeys, District Lit, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, & Memoir Mixtapes. Joey performs in the Boston cast of The Poetry Brothel as Izzie Hexxam & […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Fish Tales: Beyond Belief

Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States
$25

James Sullivan: Which Side Are You On?

Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

In Which Side Are You On, author James Sullivan delivers a lively anecdotal history of the progressive movements that have shaped the growth of the United States, and the songs that have accompanied and defined them. Come share in the music with a perfect handful of Cape Ann Musicians singing there own interpretations of these […]

$25

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Rachel Layne: How to Read The News

The news is overwhelming. How do you sort through it? Where to begin? How do you know what's true? Come listen to a journalist outline how she ferrets out information using tools of the trade. You'll learn how to: - Identify a meme or unreported story vs. news written by professional journalists - Figure out […]

Fish Tales: True Love

Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

Buy tickets here.       If you have  a story you'd like to tell, please contact Casey Breton at caseybreton@outlook.com.

An Evening with Andre Dubus III

Azorean Resturant 133 Washington Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

Come enjoy Tapas appetizers, drinks, and conversation in an intimate setting with novelist and short story writer Andre Dubus III. Andre’s seven books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His most recent novel, Gone So Long, has received starred reviews from […]

$50

Carmine Gorga

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

A Reading from spoKe six

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

A reading from spoKe six including David Rich reading from his essay on Gerrit Lansing, James Cook reading from his essay on Sam Cornish, poems by John Mulrooney, Jim Dunn and Amanda Cook. Hosted by Karina Van Berkum and Kevin Gallagher.   David Rich worked as the poet Gerrit Lansing’s archivist from 2017 to 2018, […]

Peter Almond

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

This event will be closed to the public. Please join us for the live stream on Facebook! Peter Almond is a documentary and narrative filmmaker, whose career includes work on public issues as a journalist and in public policy with both US and international projects. Current work include a drama set in the lead up […]

Stay Safe

Dear Friends, During this time of mass isolation we are  hunkering down with our Board to explore, regroup and reimagine how we can best serve the community while moving sustainably into our this unpredictable future.  To do this we are temporarily suspending our live programming and events until the invisible storm passes.   We want […]

Zoom – Virtual Open Mic

                                    virtual Roger Davis invites you to a scheduled Zoom meeting for the monthly Gloucester Writers Center Open Mic. As usual, each reader will have five minutes to read a piece of prose, fiction, or poetry.  In lieu of […]

Open Mic

Join host Roger Davis on Zoom Bring your words get heard. Sign in at 7:15 below and chat before reading https://us02web.zoom.us/j/71829688421?pwd=UURXYXF0RXVwZTFGYUF5cmgzb2hHZz09 Anyone needing help with Zoom sign in can email Roger at Rdavis@gmail.com Meeting ID: 718 2968 8421 Password: words

Summer Scriptwriting Class with Peter Almond

Tuesdays July 21, 28, Aug 4 & August 11  7pm EST Peter Almond is a film producer and writer in both documentary and narrative genres. He is currently filmmaker/Writer-in-Residence at the GWC. He wants to give a ZOOM Screenwriting Workshop as a contribution!  All proceeds from the workshop will all go to the GWC. These […]

$150.00

True-Life Tales w/ a Twist

Join Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons, producer of the nonfiction series No, YOU Tell It! (noyoutellit.com), for this generative storytelling workshop. Participants will turn out and trade true tales to examine what makes a powerful, affecting, and expressive story on the page or stage. Have a Fish Tales story you want to hone or a new tale you’ve […]

$75.00

Fish Tales: Are We There Yet?

Online Livestream

HOSTED BY CASEY BRETON With stories from  Rev. Wendy Fitting, Abram Kielsmeir-Jones, Doug Rich, Dick Prouty, Laila Goodman, Bobbie Wayne,  and  Keith Harris. RESERVE YOUR TICKET TODAY Online Ticket Purchase Available Here OR CALL: 978-281-4433

Storytelling with Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

   Storytelling Guru Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons offers four workshops 10am - 11:30 the following Saturdays (Take one for $35 or $25 for two or more) Saturday, Oct 10th - What? vs. Why? Generative workshop that explores WHAT the story is about, but more importantly, WHY it needs to be told? Saturday, Oct 24th - Story Starters Hook readers […]

$35

Visual Storytelling with Anne Rearick

The Art of Visual Storytelling w/ Anne Rearick October 10, 17 & 24th $175 for workshop - Class maximum 10 This workshop will guide and support participants in honing their storytelling skills through photography. Stories may be personal and explore family and community or address larger societal issues like the Black Lives Matter movement or […]

$175

Screenwriting with Peter Almond

  Our second screenwriting workshop with film producer and writer  Peter Almond      Starts 7pm EST. Class starts on October 20th and runs  four consecutive Tuesdays.   Workshop is limited to eight -  $150   To save your space email Eileen@Gloucesterwriters.org These 90-minute workshops will consider basic screenplay writing issues involving premise, structure, character and […]

$150

Storytelling Workshop with Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons  

Zoom

Storytelling Guru Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons offers three more workshops 10:00am - 11:30 (Take one for $35 or $25 for two or more) Saturday, Nov 7th - Story Starters Hook readers with varied techniques to start a story. Saturday, Nov 21st - Aha! Moments Moments of joy, pain, or change that send the story in a new direction. Saturday, Dec 5th […]

$35

Visual Storytelling with Anne Rearick

Zoom

The Art of Visual Storytelling w/ Anne Rearick Oct. 31 - Nov. 7 & 14    1-3 pm $175 for workshop - Class maximum 10 This workshop will guide and support participants in honing their storytelling skills through photography. Stories may be personal and explore family and community or address larger societal issues like the Black […]

$175

NaNoWriMo

Zoom

NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH is an annual internet based creative writing project that takes place during November. This year Gloucester School Teacher, Heidi Wakeman is volunteering with the GWC to facilitate the program. Heidi says, "I've always wanted to write a novel and what better time then now! " Every Monday  in November from 7pm to 8:30 the […]

M. Lynda Robinson – 10 minute Plays

  The Return of the 10 Minute Play Over the years M. Lynda Robinson's 10 play workshop produced several award winning shows. If you've ever wanted to write a play this is a great introduction to the craft. Classes planned for November. Four sessions on Zoom. $125 To save your space email: Eileen@gloucesterwriters.org

$125

Visual Storytelling with Anne Rearick

Zoom

The Art of Visual Storytelling w/ Anne Rearick Oct. 31 - Nov. 7 & 14    1-3 pm $175 for workshop - Class maximum 10 This workshop will guide and support participants in honing their storytelling skills through photography. Stories may be personal and explore family and community or address larger societal issues like the Black […]

$175

NaNoWriMo

Zoom

NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH is an annual internet based creative writing project that takes place during November. This year Gloucester School Teacher, Heidi Wakeman is volunteering with the GWC to facilitate the program. Heidi says, "I've always wanted to write a novel and what better time then now! " Every Monday  in November from 7pm to 8:30 the […]

Larry Eigner workshop with Jennifer Bartlett

Four Thursdays 7-9:00 pm EST November 19, 26, December 3, 10 $75.00 7 person min. enrollment birds dreamed hungry: a poetry workshop on Larry Eigner and Black Mountain Poetry Workshop with Jennifer Bartlett & George Hart This workshop will focus on the work and life of Larry Eigner and his relationship with Gloucester poets, Vincent […]

$75

Storytelling Workshop with Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons  

Storytelling Guru Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons offers three more workshops 10:00am - 11:30 (Take one for $35 or $25 for two or more) Saturday, Nov 7th - Story Starters Hook readers with varied techniques to start a story. Saturday, Nov 21st - Aha! Moments Moments of joy, pain, or change that send the story in a new direction. Saturday, Dec 5th […]

$35

NaNoWriMo

Zoom

NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH is an annual internet based creative writing project that takes place during November. This year Gloucester School Teacher, Heidi Wakeman is volunteering with the GWC to facilitate the program. Heidi says, "I've always wanted to write a novel and what better time then now! " Every Monday  in November from 7pm to 8:30 the […]

NaNoWriMo

Zoom

NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH is an annual internet based creative writing project that takes place during November. This year Gloucester School Teacher, Heidi Wakeman is volunteering with the GWC to facilitate the program. Heidi says, "I've always wanted to write a novel and what better time then now! " Every Monday  in November from 7pm to 8:30 the […]

Storytelling Workshop with Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons

Zoom

Storytelling Guru Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons offers three more workshops 10:00am - 11:30 (Take one for $35 or $25 for two or more) Saturday, Nov 7th - Story Starters Hook readers with varied techniques to start a story. Saturday, Nov 21st - Aha! Moments Moments of joy, pain, or change that send the story in a new direction. Saturday, Dec 5th […]

$35

Open Mic

Host Roger Davis invites you to our   Virtual OPEN MIC.      First Monday of the month!    Sign in at 7:15pm and chat.   Reading begins @ 7:30  Click Here to go to Zoom  or paste this. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/71829688421?pwd= UURXYXF0RXVwZTFGYUF5 cmgzb2hHZz09   Anyone needing help with Zoom sign in can email  Roger at 16rdavis@gmail.com    Meeting ID: […]

Open Mic with Roger Davis

Zoom

Host Roger Davis invites you to our   Virtual OPEN MIC.      First Monday of the month!    Sign in at 7:15pm and chat.   Reading begins @ 7:30  Click Here to go to Zoom  or paste this. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/71829688421?pwd= UURXYXF0RXVwZTFGYUF5 cmgzb2hHZz09   Anyone needing help with Zoom sign in can email  Roger at 16rdavis@gmail.com    Meeting ID: […]

Open Mic with Roger Davis

Zoom

Host Roger Davis invites you to our   Virtual OPEN MIC.      First Monday of the month!    Sign in at 7:15pm and chat.   Reading begins @ 7:30  Click Here to go to Zoom  or paste this. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/71829688421?pwd= UURXYXF0RXVwZTFGYUF5 cmgzb2hHZz09   Anyone needing help with Zoom sign in can email  Roger at 16rdavis@gmail.com    Meeting ID: […]