The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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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 in with drafts in all […]
Wendy Drexler, Nancy Esposito and Holly Guran
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterWendy Drexler’s third poetry collection, Before There Was Before, was published by Iris Press in March 2017. A three-time Pushcart-Prize nominee, she’s also the author of Western Motel (Turning Point, 2012) and the chapbook Drive-Ins, Gas Stations, the Bright Motels (Pudding House, 2007). Her poems have appeared widely or are forthcoming in […]
Fish Tales: Deadline
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesFish Tales True stories told live. Deadline Friday October 19 7:30 pm Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester Featured storytellers include: Phoebe Potts Heather Atwood Charles Nazarian Bill Wrinn and more!
Charles Olson Lecture: Ed Sanders
Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, MA, United StatesThis illustrated lecture, “A Life of Olson, with Glyphs,” will feature a sequence of projected color Glyphs with text and comments on key points in Charles Olson’s life and times, including the personal interactions of Olson with Ed Sanders beginning in 1962 and continuing until Olson’s passing in early 1970. Included will be a tracing […]
Ed Sanders. Broken Glory.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterBroken Glory deals with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after there are still unanswered questions about whether his murder was the result of a conspiracy. Broken Glory is a graphic history told in epic verse of Bobby Kennedy's life and times leading up to the fateful 1968 election campaign, with 100 illustrations […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
Rough Seas: Reading and Reflections on War and Writing. With Jim Grigg and Heather Dupont.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterIn Honor of Veterans Day presenting Rough Seas Readings and Reflections on War and Writing from the Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop Join us for an evening to honor Veterans Day Featured Readers James Grigg, Poet, Viet Nam Veteran Heather Dupont, Poet, V.A. Health Professional Sign up at 7:15 for the Veterans […]
Speaking of Olson: Kate Colby, Amanda Cook and Kate Tarlow Morgan
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesWomen's Work on Charles Olson Kate Colby is author of seven books of poetry, including The Arrangements (Four Way Books, 2018). A book of literary essays, Dream of the Trenches (Noemi Books, 2019), is forthcoming. Fruitlands won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2007. She has received awards […]
Randy Ross
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterGod Bless Cambodia is a picaresque comedy about a never-married hypochondriac who takes a trip around the world hoping to change his luck with love. It's an unflinching look at how men feel about sex, love, marriage, and massage parlors. The book features adult situations, adult language, and more adult situations. "A very entertaining story […]