The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Aine Greaney
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterÁine’s presentation will focus on writing personal essays--such as those published in The Boston Globe Magazine, Brevity, The New York Times Modern Love series and other publications. She will discuss the […]
Judith Wright and Tom Fels
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJudith Wright was born in 1939 and is an artist living in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She became a Freedom Rider and was jailed in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1961. Later, […]
Patrick Donnelly
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterPATRICK DONNELLY is the author of four books of poetry, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
Naming the World with Julie Batten
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterNaming the World - a weekend of Personal Essay based on Bret Anthony Johnston’s book. To write well we must be able to "name the world" around us in such […]
Wendy Fitting and Ellen Solomon
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterFraming the Story: An Introduction to the Art of the Graphic Memoir
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterFraming the Story: An Introduction to the Art of the Graphic Memoir Before we can put a single word down on the page, we must first behold the mental image, however fleeting, […]
Cathy Curtis on Nell Blaine
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCathy Curtis is the author of two previous biographies of women artists, RESTLESS AMBITION: GRACE HARTIGAN, PAINTER (Oxford University Press, 2015) and A GENEROUS VISION: THE CREATIVE LIFE OF ELAINE […]
Ann Charters
Ann Charters will be talking about how Charles Olson influenced her a young writer. She met him in 1968, after she had spent the years 1963-65 in the graduate English […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin us for a night of fun and reading of three completely different kinds of books! Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau are both charter members of The Finish Line, a […]
Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin us for a night of fun and reading of three completely different kinds of books! Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau are both charter members of The Finish Line, a […]
Eloise and Art Hodges
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesEloise Weld Hodges grew up in Essex, then moved in 1954 with her family to Dolliver’s Neck, Gloucester. As Associate Editor and feature writer for North Shore Magazine (1975-80), she […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCollege Essay Program Training
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterEvery Fall, the Gloucester Writers Center organizes volunteers to go into Gloucester High School to help seniors with their college essays. You do not necessarily need to be a writer, […]
Ellen Wilkin
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterEllen Wilkin has been writing for 45 years as a poet and essayist, as a technical writer and editor in the computer industry, and as a novelist. Several of her […]
The Dogtown Writers Festival
Various MA, United StatesDogtown Writers Festival September 27 and 28 Join us and other fellow writers in exploring and celebrating PLACE, with Cape Ann as a microcosm of the global macrocosm. The […]
Mitch Manning and James Stotts
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterMitch Manning is the author of city of water (Arrowsmith, 2019). He’s taught poetry in central China and his poems have been read in Basra, southern Iraq as part of the Boston […]