The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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 […]
Building on his work with the Refugee Tales project (www.refugeetales.org), and taking the contemporary fact of detention as its starting point, David Herd’s talk considers the interlocking attempts of […]
In addition to Post & Rail, Erica Funkhouser has published four books of poetry with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and one with Alice James Books. Included in Sure Shot (HM 1992) […]
Among other books, Ann Charters has written & edited two books about & by Charles Olson in the 1960s, compiled a bibliography of Jack Kerouac & wrote his first biography […]
Hettie Jones will be bringing her memoir workshop back to the GWC on August 10 and 11 for three hours each day. The two-day session is $200. Enrollment is closed. […]
Jewish temple worship and Christian communion are both the direct product and development of late Bronze Age (1200-1000 BCE) ritual orgy. So-called Echidnaic-Ios rites sprang from the genius of a […]
Raymond Foye was born in 1957 in Lowell, Mass. He is a writer, curator, editor and publisher. He studied with Stan Brakhage at the Art Insitute of Chicago. He was […]
Writing Around the Fold a writing and paper play workshop for all ages with Gloucester Writers Center’s Amanda Cook in collaboration with B O U S T R O P […]
Symbiotic Earth How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution. Explores the life and ideas of Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to […]
Dogtown Writers Festival (DWF) Committee Needs Assistance... New dates of Friday Sept 20th and Saturday, Sept 21st 2019 have been scheduled for GWC’s Dogtown Writers Festival with the theme: “Finding […]
To celebrate the September 7 birth of Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009), the writer who worked and died in the city of his fiction tetralogy GLOUCESTERMAN (the novels Prologos, Gloucesterbook, Gloucestertide, and […]
GWC Writers Group Now Forming Are you interested in joining a writers group? Come to an Introductory Session at the GWC on Thursday, September 13th from 7-8pm. Talk with other […]
GUIDED AUTOBIOGRAPHY GROUP: The Journey of a LifetimeJoin members of our community for a journey of personal exploration,writing, and community building as we:• leave a legacy for family members • […]
Unburying Malcolm Miller Filmmakers Kevin Carey and Mark Hillringhouse bring the outsider poet Malcolm Miller back to life in this riveting documentary. Miller found early success with his poetry and […]
