The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Gloucester City Hall Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA, United StatesWorldwide Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 6 September 2017 Click here for a list of readings around the world. Details to follow.
Jonathan Bayliss Birthday Bash and Gilgamesh Play Reading
To celebrate the September 7, 1926 birth of Jonathan Bayliss, the playwright and novelist who died in 2009 here in the city of his fiction, Cape Ann residents will read portions of his play The Acts of Gilgamesh. The play is loosely based on the ancient Gilgamesh epic, takes place in Sumer (now southern Iraq), […]
Michael Casey and Paul Marion
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterThe publication of Michael Casey's latest book, There It Is: New & Selected Poems, has been called "an event to celebrate" (Edward Field). The winner of the 1972 Yale Younger Poets Prize for his stunning collection of Vietnam War poems titled Obscenities, Casey is the author of several collections, including Millrat and Check Points. […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
Ben Berman and Joshua Scott-Fishburn
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterBen Berman’s first book, Strange Borderlands, won the 2014 Peace Corps Award for Best Book of Poetry and was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Awards. His second collection, Figuring in the Figure, is recently out from Able Muse Press. He has received awards from the New England Poetry Club and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Somerville […]
Fishtales: Birth
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesFISH TALES With Maureen Aylward Birth It's all about creation. Friday, September 15th 7:30 Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street East Gloucester $10 Donation – no one turned away due to lack of funds In partnership with the North Shore Postpartum Task Force
Kate Tarlow Morgan “Memoirs of Places & Phrases” DATE CHANGED
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester“Memoirs of Places & Phrases” with Kate Tarlow Morgan Kate Tarlow Morgan is a choreographer, NEST (New England States Touring) Artist, and grateful artist-in-residence at Gloucester Writers Center. She is editor-in-chief of Currents Journal for the Body-Mind Centering Association, and editorial consultant for Lost & Found Poetics Document Initiative at C.U.N.Y-Center for Humanities. As […]
Jungian Study Group Introductory Overview
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterMonthly Meeting on Mondays -7:00 - 9:00 pm Carl Jung spent his lifetime exploring the relationship of our individual existence to the Grand Cosmology of the world around us. He addressed simple questions which are still being asked today. What is our relationship to ourselves, to others and to the world of nature […]
College Essay Program Training Night
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, but good reading and editing skills are a plus. The volunteers sit in the high school library, and students come […]