Dan Duffy and Jan Blais
Dan Duffy’s memoir Brother, Brother; mostly truth, part fiction, is a tribute to his older brother Rich, whom he will always consider a casualty of the post-Vietnam era. Missing in […]
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International Women’s Day Reading
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester“Every Man / Every Woman carries a firmament inside & the stars in it are not the stars in the sky” Diane di Prima Women of Cape Ann. Let us […]
Creative Diversions for the Writer’s Brain
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterCancelled CREATIVE DIVERSIONS FOR THE WRITER’S BRAIN Peer-facilitated writing group with Stacey Dexter This group will focus on writing from prompts, free writing sessions and writing stories in the round. […]
Lynn Xu and Joshua Edwards
Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. She is the author of Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn), which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and June (a chapbook from […]
Intro to Memoir Writing
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCANCELLED INTRO TO MEMOIR WRITING Peer-facilitated writing group with Dan Duffy The purpose of this group is to learn from and contribute to each other’s understanding of memoir writing. The […]
Explore Your Own Amazement- Poetry
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterEXPLORE YOUR OWN AMAZEMENT-POETRY Peer-facilitated writing group with Sandra Williams Together we will explore our own amazement, through sharing poems we love, and what we think is worth writing about. […]
Getting Heard
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 […]
Simeon Berry
Simeon Berry was born in Guilford, Connecticut, and was educated at New College of Florida and Eckerd College. He received a M.F.A. in Poetry from Indiana University at Bloomington. He […]
Rescheduled! 10-Minute Plays Staged Reading
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesVeterans Writing Workshop Spring 2017
Gloucester Office of Veterans Services 12 Emerson Avenue, Gloucester, MAThe Veterans Writing Workshop resumes on Wednesday March 22 and continues on Wednesdays through May 10 at the Gloucester Veterans Center , 12 Emerson Ave. “…a journey is called that […]
Fish Tales: NERDS
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesFish Tales w/ Jim Dowd NERDS Friday March 24, Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 7:30 to 9:00 6 Wonson Street Featuring: our first middle school fish tale teller Abby Cook […]
Brian Sneeden
Brian Sneeden’s first collection of poems, Last City, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press (2018). His work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
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 […]
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 […]
Cathy Strisik, Ani Gjika and Pui Ying Wong
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCathy 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 Guiliano and Geoffrey Movius
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCharles 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 […]