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Sigrid Olsen: My Life Redesigned
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn this visually rich memoir, Sigrid Olsen traces her journey from art student entrepreneur to nationally known fashion designer, and full circle back to her roots as an artist and […]
William Bernhardt
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterNoted author William Bernhardt stops by the GWC for a conversation about writing Monday, July 9th, 7:30 PM William Bernhardt is an American thriller/mystery/suspense fiction author best known for his […]
“Hamlet and Buddha: ‘Words, Words, Words’ and Silence” Mike Sperber
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 […]
David Herd
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 […]
Erica Funkhouser and Soren Stockman
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn 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) […]
Ann Charters
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 […]
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Hettie Jones Memoir Workshop
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. […]
Ammon Hillman
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
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterRaymond 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
Flat Rocks Gallery 77 Langsford Street, Gloucester, MAWriting 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
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterSymbiotic 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 Committee Meeting
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 […]
Bayliss Birthday Bash
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterTo 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 […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterNew Writing Group Introductory Session
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterGWC 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 with Claudia Filos
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterGUIDED 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 Malcom Miller
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterUnburying 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 […]
100 Thousand Poets for Change Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin poets, musicians, and artists around the world in a celebration to promote peace, sustainability and justice and to call for serious social, environmental and political change. Bring a poem, […]
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Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCollege Essay Program Training Night
Every 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, […]
Wendy Drexler, Nancy Esposito and Holly Guran
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterWendy Drexler’s third poetry collection, Before There Was Before, was published by Iris Press in March 2017. A three-time Pushcart-Prize nominee, she’s also the author of Western […]
Fish Tales: Deadline
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesFish Tales True stories told live. Deadline Friday October 19 7:30 pm Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester Featured storytellers include: Phoebe Potts Heather Atwood Charles Nazarian […]
Charles Olson Lecture: Ed Sanders
Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA, United StatesThis illustrated lecture, “A Life of Olson, with Glyphs,” will feature a sequence of projected color Glyphs with text and comments on key points in Charles Olson’s life and times, […]
Ed Sanders. Broken Glory.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterBroken Glory deals with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after there are still unanswered questions about whether his murder was the result of a conspiracy. Broken Glory […]