The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Rory O’Connor’s Tales From Another Place.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterRory O’Connor; grown and educated in the old country, he traveled the world and got shipwrecked in Gloucester, where he has lived for close to 400 years. Yes, he’s an old soul and he is very excited about his upcoming birthday in 2023. Check him out as he belly’s forth his particularly humorous view of […]
A Celebration of Gerrit Lansing
Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church 10 Church Street, Gloucester , MA, United StatesOur friend Gerrit Lansing passed away on February 11, two weeks shy of his 90th birthday. We had planned a reading to celebrate the day and have moved it from the Gloucester Writers Center to the Unitarian Universalist Church on Middle Street to make room for everyone who would like to celebrate Gerrit's life on […]
Poems from Ward Three
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterAn informal get-together in Josh’s shed, the Responders take turns providing prompts and convene every Friday night to share responses and constructive critique over drinks by the fire. The get-together became a pact of “at least 52 weeks,” which has been fulfilled with this reading of selections from the past year. Organically, themes of Ward […]
POSTPONED 10 Playwrights & 10 Ten-Minute Plays.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesDue to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed. We will announce a new date soon. 10 Playwrights & 10 Ten-Minute Plays. Come and join us for the 1st performance of the plays and give your feedback to the playwrights! Reception after the performance. Rocky Neck Cultural Center. $10 Suggested donation - No one turned […]
Book Release: Amanda Cook’s Ironstone Whirlygig
A daybook, a memoir, and a serial poem, Ironstone Whirlygig is also something else. The book began as a blog written in stolen moments--in the hours between the local closing and the sun coming up, when children and husband are asleep and the world is quiet and still enough to allow the mind to remake […]
Steven Seidenberg and David Abel
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterSitu is a hesitant unfolding of demise, a text that occupies the interstices between diegetic, philosophical, and poetic discursive timbres. From this tension—which finds form in an indeterminate subject’s relationship with a bench, his anguished site of rest and motion—the subsequent flux at the center of the narrative voice facilitates a kind of epistemology of […]
Fish Tales: High School
Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United StatesVeterans Writing Workshop
Gloucester Office of Veterans Services 12 Emerson Avenue, Gloucester, MAPass The Word to Veterans and The Families of Veterans Veterans Writing Workshop Resumes Thursday March 29 The Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop resumes this spring on Thursday March 29 and continues on Thursdays through May 3 from 10:00 a.m. until noon. This is the fifth year and tenth season of the writing workshop. […]