• Fahrenheit 451

    Cape Ann Cinema and Stage 21 Main Street, Gloucester
  • A Conversation with Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer.

    Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

    Join Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer on May 21,7:30 p.m. at the Gloucester Writers Center for a conversation about the book they are working on.  The book explores through stories and theory how a small local organization, Wellspring House, became over decades a force for social justice, rooted in a shared vision and common practice. Two of the […]

  • Author Sandra Williams: “Time and Tide”, a collection of short stories

    Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

    Cape Ann author Sandra Williams, will read selections from her first collection of short stories. Time and Tide is an assortment of tales, speaks of change—sometimes a long time coming, sometimes in an instant, but always inevitable. The first story, “Book of Hours,” creates the frame for the rest of the tales. Helen, an American writer […]

  • Fish Tales: Women and Children First

    Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States

    With stories by: * Brian Orr * Phoebe Potts * Cassy Bretton * Heather Sweet * Sandra Winter * Lilly Wandwoffen * Catherine Clark

  • Garrison Nelson

    Garrison Nelson: Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior Department of Political Science  reads from his new book on John McCormack. Before the house had Tip O'Neill, there was John McCormack. How did this man, with an eighth grade education and a false family history, become Speaker of the […]

  • Dale Smith. The Circle of the Bee-Hive: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson

    Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

    Dale Smith explores the correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson as a pivotal moment in mid-twentieth century American writing, drawing on ideas of form and place in the making of poetry vs. what Duncan called "the mania that a nation is."   Dale Smith is a poet, critic and scholar of poetry and poetics […]

  • Veterans and Their Families Read from The Inner Voice and The Outer World.

    Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States

    Veterans and Their Families will read their stories and poems from the anthology, The Inner Voice and The Outer World, on Saturday, June 9th from 3 – 5 PM at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Court. The writers represent current and recent members of the Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop. James Grigg, […]

  • Bob Holman and Eric Edwards

    Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, is the author of 17 poetry collections, including Sing This One Back to Me (Coffee House Press), and A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, a collaboration with Chuck Close), and has taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School. These days, a lot […]

  • Incredible Dancer Gala

    33 Commercial Street 33 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA

    We will celebrate the work of the Gloucester Writers Center with The Incredible Dancer Gala in a tent by Pavillion Beach on one of the longest nights of the year. In the words of the poet Vincent Ferrini we will “take conviviality to another sphere” with music, dance, and delicious food. Buy tickets here!