The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Open Mic
Bring your words. Get heard! Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door.
Sara Larsen
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterSara Larsen is a poet living in Oakland. Her new book Merry Hell has just been released from Atelos. Her previous book, All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous, was released by Printing Press in 2014. Sara has performed her work widely, including at The Berkeley Art Museum, Grace Cathedral, LitQuake, and at Multifarious Array in NYC. Over the course […]
Fire at Sea
Cape Ann Cinema and Stage 21 Main Street, GloucesterFIRE AT SEA with Q&A led by Dan Connell SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 AT 6:30 PM CAPE ANN CINEMA 21 MAIN STREET, GLOUCESTER Join us for a screening of Italy’s Oscar entry for Best Foreign Film, Fire at Sea, followed by a Q&A led by Forum chair Dan Connell, who has interviewed shipwreck survivors and has […]
Writers Resist: Don’t Tread On Us
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesLocal authors Charlotte Gordon, Dorothy Nelson, Gordon Baird, Regina Cole, Peter Anastas, Rae Francouer, Phoebe Potts, Amanda Cook, JoeAnn Hart and other writers and individuals from the arts community will read from literature that focuses on the importance of freedom of speech and expression in a functioning democracy. As time permits, the floor will open […]
Fishtales: MLK Day Celebration
Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church 10 Church Street, Gloucester , MA, United StatesGWC Fish Tales: MLK Day Celebration Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation 10 Church Street, Gloucester, MA Monday, January 16th, 2017 1:30-5:30 PM Stories about Injustice and Hope: 3:30-4:40 Join the Gloucester community as it comes together to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. GWC Fish Tales will present five storytellers who will offer their personal stories […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterEach reader gets 5 minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterEach reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
10-Minute Plays Staged Reading
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States
Milkweed
Join us for a reading from the first issue! Milkweed is a Greater Boston area based literary journal that features poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from a variety of different writers. Milkweed was founded with the intention of seeking out writers who produce unique and thought-provoking work. At Milkweed, we are avid readers ourselves, and we […]
Dan Duffy and Jan Blais
Dan Duffy’s memoir Brother, Brother; mostly truth, part fiction, is a tribute to his older brother Rich, whom he will always consider a casualty of the post-Vietnam era. Missing in America for the past 45 years, Rich mysteriously reappears along with his ’66 GTO convertible and coerces Dan to retrace the cross-country route he took […]
International Women’s Day Reading
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester“Every Man / Every Woman carries a firmament inside & the stars in it are not the stars in the sky” Diane di Prima Women of Cape Ann. Let us get together to celebrate the writings of women. You are invited to read at this event from the writings of one or two of your […]
Creative Diversions for the Writer’s Brain
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterCancelled CREATIVE DIVERSIONS FOR THE WRITER’S BRAIN Peer-facilitated writing group with Stacey Dexter This group will focus on writing from prompts, free writing sessions and writing stories in the round. Facilitator will provide prompts, guidance and keep the group on task. Sharing with each other will keep it fresh and fun! The group is open […]
Lynn Xu and Joshua Edwards
Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. She is the author of Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn), which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and June (a chapbook from Corollary Press). She has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation. When not traveling, she lives in Marfa, […]
Intro to Memoir Writing
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCANCELLED INTRO TO MEMOIR WRITING Peer-facilitated writing group with Dan Duffy The purpose of this group is to learn from and contribute to each other’s understanding of memoir writing. The Facilitator and group members will help to create a learning environment for beginning writers to: meet, write, share segments of their writing, and provide feedback […]
Explore Your Own Amazement- Poetry
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterEXPLORE YOUR OWN AMAZEMENT-POETRY Peer-facilitated writing group with Sandra Williams Together we will explore our own amazement, through sharing poems we love, and what we think is worth writing about. We will create poems facilitated by prompts and exercises, as well as from our own desire to express what we see, what we feel, what […]
Getting Heard
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, […]
Simeon Berry
Simeon Berry was born in Guilford, Connecticut, and was educated at New College of Florida and Eckerd College. He received a M.F.A. in Poetry from Indiana University at Bloomington. He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society […]
Rescheduled! 10-Minute Plays Staged Reading
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesVeterans Writing Workshop Spring 2017
Gloucester Office of Veterans Services 12 Emerson Avenue, Gloucester, MAThe Veterans Writing Workshop resumes on Wednesday March 22 and continues on Wednesdays through May 10 at the Gloucester Veterans Center , 12 Emerson Ave. “…a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do […]