The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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 […]
Former Gloucester resident and Vietnam vet Marc Levy will be reading from his new book How Stevie Nearly Lost the War and Other Postwar Stories. "Rhythmic, visceral, laconic, powerful, […]
Thorpe Feidt is a painter, writer and sometime actor. His long series of paintings, "The Ambiguities," begun in 1975, continues through the present. His novel, "The Oracular Room," from which […]
May 27 Olson Panel at the ALA The Westin Copley Place - 10 Huntington Avenue 3:40 - 5:00 pm (panel) 5:10 - 6:30 pm Screening of "The Door is Open […]
Kyle Schlesinger is a poet living in Austin. Some recent poetry books include: Sydney Omarr’s Wild Children, with the artist Flynn Maria Bergann (Further Other Book Works, 2017); Far & […]
Saturday, June 3 11:00
Gloucester 'Love Fest' - an interactive community art project traveling throughout Gloucester neighborhoods this summer to help spread messages of LOVE and POSITIVITY. Messages are written on banner paper ('Love Panels'). At […]
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
A native of New York City, Richard Grossinger attended Amherst College and the University of Michigan, receiving a BA in English (1966) and a PhD in anthropology (1975). He wrote […]
In collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
In collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
Richard Deming will read from his latest collection of poems, Day for Night; the work takes its title from the cinematic term for shooting night scenes during the day. Deming’s complex lyricism […]
As part of the RESIST exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Cape Ann Farmers Market presents: Dig In: A Conversation about the Politics of Food Saturday July 1st […]
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
THE HUNGER SAINT is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as "a well- crafted and affecting literary tale," this historical novella follows the […]
The Paragraphs is a memoir of a life in music, made up of vignettes penned as exercises in songwriting by Boston music icon Rick Berlin. Created from fragments used to […]
Students in this workshop will begin to create a personal memoir in the context of its own time and place. Guided by exercises and examples from published work, each three-hour […]
When Stephanie Cassatly was 18 years old, her mother was shot and killed in a convenience store robbery in New Orleans, changing every preconceived notion she had about the world […]
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
Aboard fishing vessels from Alaska to Maine, inside restaurants of top chefs, and from the halls of Congress, in The Fish Market, journalist Lee van der Voo tells the […]
Cathy Strisik is author of two poetry collections, The Mistress (3: A Taos Press, 2016), recently nominated for the New Mexico/Arizona Book award, and Thousand-Cricket Song (2010, 2nd edition, 2016 […]
Charles Giuliano returns to Cape Ann to read from his fourth and newest book Gloucester Poems: The Nugents of Rockport. Giuliano has a long family history in Gloucester and he comes […]
