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Sigrid Olsen: My Life Redesigned
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn 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, GloucesterNoted 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 StatesIn 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 […]
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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, GloucesterRaymond 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, GloucesterSymbiotic 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, GloucesterTo 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, […]
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Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterUnburying Malcom Miller
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterUnburying 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, GloucesterJoin 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.
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Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCollege 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, GloucesterWendy 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 StatesFish 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 StatesThis 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, GloucesterBroken 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 […]
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Rough Seas: Reading and Reflections on War and Writing. With Jim Grigg and Heather Dupont.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterIn 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 StatesWomen'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, GloucesterGod 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!
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Nancy Schwoyer and Rosemary Haughton: Reclaiming Home-Making
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin 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, GloucesterThe 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, GloucesterJoin 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, GloucesterFROM INFINITE PEOPLE TO KNOW FISH "The Authors are in eternity" -- W. Blake To be a gathering of attention toward the work of Vincent […]
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Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJennifer 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, GloucesterThe 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, GloucesterDan 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 […]
Open Mic CANCELED DUE TO SNOW
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Elicitor Launch Party
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin 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, GloucesterJoin 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, GloucesterOtto 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, GloucesterLike 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, GloucesterBrenda 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 […]
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Yonghong Gu and Joseph Torra
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterYonghong 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, MachesterA 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, GloucesterSchuyler 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, GloucesterNeeli 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 LoopA 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, GloucesterOn 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, GloucesterCome remember and celebrate Gerrit Lansing with poems, song and stories.
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Don Wellman and Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterDonald 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 StatesGet tickets here!
Jay Featherstone
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJay 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, GloucesterThe 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 StatesIn 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, GloucesterMary 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, […]
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Aine Greaney
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterÁine’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, GloucesterJudith 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, GloucesterPATRICK 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 […]
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Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterWendy Fitting and Ellen Solomon
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCathy Curtis on Nell Blaine
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCathy 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, GloucesterJoin 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, GloucesterJoin 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 StatesEloise 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 […]
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Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCollege Essay Program Training
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterEvery 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, GloucesterEllen 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, GloucesterMitch 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 […]
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Cape Ann Plein Air Reading
Beauport HotelThe 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, GloucesterPatrick 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 StatesStephen 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, GloucesterStephen 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 […]
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Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterNadine Boughton and Scott Withiam
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterNadine 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 […]
Walt Whitman 200 Years: A Musical Tribute
St. Paul Lutheran Church 1123 Washington St., Gloucester, MA, United States
$25
Joey Gould and Amanda Cook
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoey 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 & […]
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Fish Tales: Beyond Belief
Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States
$25
We Set Out Now: A Marathon Reading of the Maximus Poems
Join us for a marathon reading of Charles Olson's Maximus Poems
James Sullivan: Which Side Are You On?
Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United StatesIn 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
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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 StatesBuy 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 StatesCome 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 […]
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Carmine Gorga
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterA Reading from spoKe six
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterA 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, GloucesterThis 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 […]
POSTPONED Writers Resist: Write the Vote Cape Ann
Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church 10 Church Street, Gloucester , MA, United StatesThis event has been postponed until the fall.
POSTPONED: An Evening with Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Azorean 133 Washington Street, GloucesterPlease stay tuned for updates.
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 […]
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Fish Tales: Redo
Join our Storyteller in Residence, Casey Breton for our first Virtual Fish Tales on May 22nd thru May 31st. Like so many non-profits in order to continue our mission to the community and keep in touch with our friends we are moving into the virtual. We look forward to be with you LIVE. In the […]
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Open Mic
Host Roger Davis invites you to our second Zoom OPEN MIC. Monday June 1st Sign in at 7:15pm here https://us02web.zoom.us/j/71829688421?pwd=UURXYXF0RXVwZTFGYUF5cmgzb2hHZz09 and chat before reading Bring your words get heard. Anyone needing help with Zoom sign in can email Roger at Rdavis@gmail.comMeeting ID: 718 2968 8421 Password: words
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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
Paying Attention to Internal Conflicts: How to use Complicated and Contradictory Feelings in Creative Writing
A Benefit Workshop led by poet Tom Daley via Zoom for the GWC. "If you avoid the conflict to keep the peace you start a war inside yourself.' (Cheryl Richardson) From Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be or not to be," to Katniss Everdeen's conflict between the reluctance to kill and the wish to be a warrior […]
$40.00
Fish Tales: Are We There Yet?
Online LivestreamHOSTED 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
ZoomStorytelling 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
ZoomThe 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
ZoomNATIONAL 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
ZoomThe 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
ZoomNATIONAL 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
ZoomNATIONAL 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
ZoomNATIONAL 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
ZoomStorytelling 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
ZoomHost 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
ZoomHost 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: […]