The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
Monthly 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 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 […]
Each reader gets five minutes. Bring your words. Get heard!
Writing Through Preston Hood and Dorothy Shubow Nelson will read from their recent poems in response to each other's work, and share a few of Vincent Ferrini's and Charles Olson's poems as well. Open mic and refreshments afterwards. Dorothy Shubow Nelson’s poems have appeared in Polis IV, 2014; Human Architecture VII, 2009; Consequence Vol. I, […]
Joel Dinerstein is the author of several works on the history of cool, including The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (University of Chicago, May 2017), Coach: A Study of New York Cool (Rizzoli 2016), and American Cool (2014). He was the co-curator of American Cool (2014), an acclaimed photography and cultural history exhibit at […]
Jungian Study Group Monthly 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 […]
Tuesdays - 6:00 - 9:00 pm The 10-minute play format has all the elements of drama – plot, characters, dialogue and conflict. Learn how to put those elements into a short piece written specifically for the stage, for actors and for an audience. Participants will create a 10-minute play for a Festival to be […]
Robert Buckeye and Peter Anastas will read from new work in fiction and non-fiction, followed by a dialogue focusing on the writers and texts that have informed and inspired their writing and brought them to where they are now. Anastas will read from his recently completed memoir From Gloucester Out. Buckeye will read from […]
Ann Charters, noted Beat Generation scholar, photographer, and Professor Emerita at University of Connecticut, Storrs, visits Gloucester to discuss her correspondence with poet Charles Olson. Beginning in 1968 with Charters' request for Olson to reflect on his "earliest enthusiasm for Melville," and continuing until late 1969, these letters traverse the final two years of Olson's […]
Rescheduled for October 24 Anita Diamant, New York Times Bestselling Author October 24th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The Azorean Restaurant, 133 Washington Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts Limited Number of Tickets Available Online ONLY. $50.00 per person, includes a wide variety of delicious tapas (cash bar) Proceeds benefit the Gloucester Writers Center […]
