The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
Cancelled 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. […]
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 […]
CANCELLED 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 […]
EXPLORE 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 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 […]
Fish Tales w/ Jim Dowd NERDS Friday March 24, Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 7:30 to 9:00 6 Wonson Street Featuring: our first middle school fish tale teller Abby Cook […]
Brian Sneeden’s first collection of poems, Last City, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press (2018). His work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, […]
Sandra Williams will read excerpts from Moss on Stone, a local, historical novella inspired by the diary of the young Susannah Norwood Torrey (1826-1908), a resident of Rockport, MA in the […]
Short Story Writing: Structure and Meaning Ann McArdle This workshop will combine reading and studying classic short stories as examples, in-class writing exercises, and writing a new and original short […]
In this six-week course we will explore Charles Olson's core poems and essays and their influence on two generations of poets. We will begin with his students at Black Mountain […]
