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Framing the Story: An Introduction to the Art of the Graphic Memoir
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterFraming the Story: An Introduction to the Art of the Graphic Memoir Before we can put a single word down on the page, we must first behold the mental image, however fleeting, that informs our meaning-making process. This is what makes the graphic novel such an incredible lesson to us as writers. It teaches us how to frame images in […]
Cathy Curtis on Nell Blaine
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCathy Curtis is the author of two previous biographies of women artists, RESTLESS AMBITION: GRACE HARTIGAN, PAINTER (Oxford University Press, 2015) and A GENEROUS VISION: THE CREATIVE LIFE OF ELAINE DE KOONING (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her next book will be a biography of the novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick. Curtis was elected to a two-year […]
Ann Charters
Ann Charters will be talking about how Charles Olson influenced her a young writer. She met him in 1968, after she had spent the years 1963-65 in the graduate English program at Columbia. Her dissertation was about 19th century writers in the Berkshires, with chapters on Melville and Hawthorne. When she began to read Olson […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin us for a night of fun and reading of three completely different kinds of books! Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau are both charter members of The Finish Line, a writer's group that formed in the fall of 2011 and continues today. Both women have published books, Boudreau's novel, The Frenchman in 2013 and Keddy's Serial […]
Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin us for a night of fun and reading of three completely different kinds of books! Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau are both charter members of The Finish Line, a writer's group that formed in the fall of 2011 and continues today. Both women have published books, Boudreau's novel, The Frenchman in 2013 and Keddy's Serial Monogamy earlier […]
Eloise and Art Hodges
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesEloise Weld Hodges grew up in Essex, then moved in 1954 with her family to Dolliver’s Neck, Gloucester. As Associate Editor and feature writer for North Shore Magazine (1975-80), she wrote about people and places that illuminated that part of the world. She will read from Wishbone, a collection of essays about family events and related […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCollege Essay Program Training
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterEvery 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 in with drafts in all […]