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Rory O’Connor’s Tales From Another Place.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterRory O’Connor; grown and educated in the old country, he traveled the world and got shipwrecked in Gloucester, where he has lived for close to 400 years. Yes, he’s an old soul and he is very excited about his upcoming birthday in 2023. Check him out as he belly’s forth his particularly humorous view of […]
A Celebration of Gerrit Lansing
Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church 10 Church Street, Gloucester , MA, United StatesOur friend Gerrit Lansing passed away on February 11, two weeks shy of his 90th birthday. We had planned a reading to celebrate the day and have moved it from the Gloucester Writers Center to the Unitarian Universalist Church on Middle Street to make room for everyone who would like to celebrate Gerrit's life on […]
Poems from Ward Three
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterAn informal get-together in Josh’s shed, the Responders take turns providing prompts and convene every Friday night to share responses and constructive critique over drinks by the fire. The get-together became a pact of “at least 52 weeks,” which has been fulfilled with this reading of selections from the past year. Organically, themes of Ward […]
POSTPONED 10 Playwrights & 10 Ten-Minute Plays.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesDue to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed. We will announce a new date soon. 10 Playwrights & 10 Ten-Minute Plays. Come and join us for the 1st performance of the plays and give your feedback to the playwrights! Reception after the performance. Rocky Neck Cultural Center. $10 Suggested donation - No one turned […]
Book Release: Amanda Cook’s Ironstone Whirlygig
A daybook, a memoir, and a serial poem, Ironstone Whirlygig is also something else. The book began as a blog written in stolen moments--in the hours between the local closing and the sun coming up, when children and husband are asleep and the world is quiet and still enough to allow the mind to remake […]
Steven Seidenberg and David Abel
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterSitu is a hesitant unfolding of demise, a text that occupies the interstices between diegetic, philosophical, and poetic discursive timbres. From this tension—which finds form in an indeterminate subject’s relationship with a bench, his anguished site of rest and motion—the subsequent flux at the center of the narrative voice facilitates a kind of epistemology of […]
Fish Tales: High School
Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United StatesVeterans Writing Workshop
Gloucester Office of Veterans Services 12 Emerson Avenue, Gloucester, MAPass The Word to Veterans and The Families of Veterans Veterans Writing Workshop Resumes Thursday March 29 The Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop resumes this spring on Thursday March 29 and continues on Thursdays through May 3 from 10:00 a.m. until noon. This is the fifth year and tenth season of the writing workshop. […]
CANCELLED Meet the Author Night: Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Azorean 133 Washington Street, GloucesterThis event has been cancelled due to a medical emergency. We hope to be able to reschedule at a future date. *Proudly sponsored in part by Anthony and Dodge, PC, Certified Public Accountants, South Hamilton, MA. Presentation Topic: Jacquelyn’s extensive career as a writer of both fiction and nonfiction. She may also discuss her […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
Timothy Donnelly and David Gullette
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterTimothy Donnelly is the author of two books of poetry, Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit, and The Cloud Corporation. Donnelly is an assistant professor and director of undergraduate creative writing at Columbia University. He is also the poetry editor for Boston Review. Donnelly is originally from Rhode Island but now lives in […]
POSTPONED- Saxy Poetry, Jazzy Song
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesWE HOPE TO PRESENT THIS EXCITING TRIO DURING THE SUMMER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. Jazz-up your Saturday night – literally! On the evening of the seventh of April, the Rocky Neck Cultural Center will be hosting a Jazz Poetry night to benefit the Gloucester Writers Center. Saxy Poetry, Jazzy Song – as the gathering […]
CAFM Dinner and a Movie and Fish Tales
Cape Ann Cinema and Stage 21 Main Street, GloucesterVisit capeannfarmersmarket.com for tickets.
Nausheen Eusuf and Matt Miller
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterNausheen Eusuf is a PhD candidate in English at Boston University and a graduate of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. Her poetry has appeared in The American Scholar, Southwest Review, Salmagundi, PN Review, Literary Imagination, World Literature Today, and other journals. Her first collection of poems, Not Elegy, But Eros, was recently published by NYQ Books (US) and Bengal Lights Books […]
Joan Houlihan and Fred Marchant
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoan Houlihan will be reading poems from her newly-published book, Shadow-feast, from Four Way Books. Houlihan is the author of four other books of poetry: Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays (2003); The Mending Worm, (which received the 2006 Green Rose Award from New Issues Press); The Us (2009), which received a Must Read distinction from […]
10-Minute Plays Staged Reading
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States
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Anne Rearick. ImagesSingulières SÈTE #17
French poet and native Sétois Paul Valéry referred to Sète as “L’ile Singulière,” the remarkable island. George Brassens, popular singer/songwriter and poet also drew inspiration from this Mediterranean port city and its inhabitants. New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda directed her debut film La Pointe Courte in a Sétois fishing neighborhood of the same name. In […]
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Joseph Bathanti
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoseph Bathanti is former Poet Laureate of North Carolina (2012-14) and recipient of the 2016 North Carolina Award for Literature. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Communion Partners; Anson County; The Feast of All Saints; This Metal, (nominated for the National Book Award, and winner of the Oscar Arnold Young Award); Land […]
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Fahrenheit 451
Cape Ann Cinema and Stage 21 Main Street, GloucesterA Conversation with Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer on May 21,7:30 p.m. at the Gloucester Writers Center for a conversation about the book they are working on. The book explores through stories and theory how a small local organization, Wellspring House, became over decades a force for social justice, rooted in a shared vision and common practice. Two of the […]
Author Sandra Williams: “Time and Tide”, a collection of short stories
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCape Ann author Sandra Williams, will read selections from her first collection of short stories. Time and Tide is an assortment of tales, speaks of change—sometimes a long time coming, sometimes in an instant, but always inevitable. The first story, “Book of Hours,” creates the frame for the rest of the tales. Helen, an American writer […]
Fish Tales: Women and Children First
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesWith stories by: * Brian Orr * Phoebe Potts * Cassy Bretton * Heather Sweet * Sandra Winter * Lilly Wandwoffen * Catherine Clark
Garrison Nelson
Garrison Nelson: Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior Department of Political Science reads from his new book on John McCormack. Before the house had Tip O'Neill, there was John McCormack. How did this man, with an eighth grade education and a false family history, become Speaker of the […]
Dale Smith. The Circle of the Bee-Hive: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterDale Smith explores the correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson as a pivotal moment in mid-twentieth century American writing, drawing on ideas of form and place in the making of poetry vs. what Duncan called "the mania that a nation is." Dale Smith is a poet, critic and scholar of poetry and poetics […]
Veterans and Their Families Read from The Inner Voice and The Outer World.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesVeterans and Their Families will read their stories and poems from the anthology, The Inner Voice and The Outer World, on Saturday, June 9th from 3 – 5 PM at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Court. The writers represent current and recent members of the Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop. James Grigg, […]
Bob Holman and Eric Edwards
Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, is the author of 17 poetry collections, including Sing This One Back to Me (Coffee House Press), and A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, a collaboration with Chuck Close), and has taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School. These days, a lot […]
Incredible Dancer Gala
33 Commercial Street 33 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MAWe will celebrate the work of the Gloucester Writers Center with The Incredible Dancer Gala in a tent by Pavillion Beach on one of the longest nights of the year. In the words of the poet Vincent Ferrini we will “take conviviality to another sphere” with music, dance, and delicious food. Buy tickets here!
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 […]