Sandra Williams and Jan Blais
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 […]
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Short Story Writing: Structure and Meaning
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterShort 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 […]
Charles Olson’s Impact
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterIn 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 […]
Fish Tales: A Celebration of Poetry Month
Sawyer Free Library 2 Dale Ave, GloucesterJeff Zinn
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJeff Zinn, Equity actor, Award-winning director and GSC managing director will read from his memoir. "The Existential Actor : Life and Death Onstage and Off." "This is a book for […]
Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe has written many books of poetry and fiction. Her most recent collection of poetry is Second Childhood from Graywolf Press. She was a Finalist for the National Book […]
Getting Heard: Pizza and Postcards
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterHow 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 […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
Deborah Cramer: The Making of The Narrow Edge
Sawyer Free Library 2 Dale Ave, Gloucester
Marc Levy
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 and Patrick Doud
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterThorpe 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 […]
Olson Panel at the ALA
Westin Copley Place 10 Huntington Ave, BostonMay 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: Olson at Goddard
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 & […]
Annual Meeting
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterSaturday, June 3 11:00
Love Fest
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United StatesGloucester '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 […]
Open Mic
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough
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 […]
We Resist: A Reading.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
Fish Tales: I Protest.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl
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 […]
DIG IN!
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesAs 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 […]
Open Mic SCHEDULE CHANGE
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
Olivia Kate Cerrone: The Hunger Saint
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterTHE 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 […]
Rick Berlin
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 […]
Hettie Jones: Weekend Memoir Workshop
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterStudents 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 […]
Stephanie Cassatly
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 […]
Open Mic
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
Lee Van Der Voo. Fish Market: Inside the Big Money Battle for the Ocean & Your Dinner Plate.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterAboard 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 […]