The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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 focus on how to lobby for or against specific issues clearly and with purpose, without attack or blame. In any communication with a government official, […]
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 has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society […]
The 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 because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do […]
Fish 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 and Anne Donnolley, Len Pal, Sean Lally & a mystery couple who met playing a video game, him in England her in USA- now married. […]
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, and other publications, and translations of his poems have been published in international magazines in Greek, Albanian, and Serbian. Brian also translates modern Greek poetry, […]
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 mid-nineteenth century. With insight sensitivity, and lyrical expression, Susannah speaks to us, who live in a very different time, but not so different in human […]
Short 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 story. Participants will be expected to work on their writing outside of class hours as well as in class. Thursdays 9 am to noon April […]
In 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 College and poets who published in the Black Mountain Review and Origin, broadening our scope to include the 1950s Boston School of poetry, the British Poetry Revival, Ethnopoetics […]
