The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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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.
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
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 […]