The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
Jeff Zinn, Equity actor, Award-winning director and GSC managing director will read from his memoir. "The Existential Actor : Life and Death Onstage and Off." "This is a book for the thinking actor, and the finest actors I've known are just that. The best actors bring it all together body, heart, spirit, and mind. This […]
Fanny Howe has written many books of poetry and fiction. Her most recent collection of poetry is Second Childhood from Graywolf Press. She was a Finalist for the National Book Award in 2014 for that book and for the Man Booker International Award,2015, for her fiction. Her newest collection of prose, The Needle’s Eye,was published […]
How to be heard by your government: Using the traditional tools of letters and postcards, we will discuss ways of expressing oneself on paper to effect policy change. We will focus on how to lobby for or against specific issues clearly and with purpose, without attack or blame. In any communication with a government official, […]
Former Gloucester resident and Vietnam vet Marc Levy will be reading from his new book How Stevie Nearly Lost the War and Other Postwar Stories. "Rhythmic, visceral, laconic, powerful, this collection of short stories will haunt the reader long after he finishes reading it." Nguyen Ba Chung, William Joiner Center, U Mass Boston
Thorpe Feidt is a painter, writer and sometime actor. His long series of paintings, "The Ambiguities," begun in 1975, continues through the present. His novel, "The Oracular Room," from which he will be reading, was published last year by Station Hill of Barrytown. Poet and novelist Patrick Doud will give a reading of both new […]
Kyle Schlesinger is a poet living in Austin. Some recent poetry books include: Sydney Omarr’s Wild Children, with the artist Flynn Maria Bergann (Further Other Book Works, 2017); Far & Away (Textile Series, 2017); and Let’s Drift (CL Press, 2017). Scholarly works include A Poetics of the Press (Ugly Ducking Presse, 2017), Dwell Time, with […]
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
A native of New York City, Richard Grossinger attended Amherst College and the University of Michigan, receiving a BA in English (1966) and a PhD in anthropology (1975). He wrote his doctoral thesis on his fieldwork with fishermen in Eastern Maine, after which he taught fortwo years at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham and […]
In collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.