The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
“Why Write? To Better Understand the World and the People Who Live in It” – Brian Turner, Iraq Veteran and Poet Veterans Writing Workshop, Fall 2015, Starts Oct. 1. The Inner Voice and the Outer World The Veterans Writing Workshop helps people get started or move forward on their own writing projects. Veterans from all […]
Ellen Szabo. Fridays, October 9 to November 13 9 to 11AM Writing memoir is a way to figure out who you used to be and how you got to be who you are. This workshop will explore the process of writing unforgettable memoir. In a supportive stimulating atmosphere, participants will learn the rules […]
Join us for a night of storytelling, poetry, prose and music. With featured teen writers and musicians from the Cape Ann Area.
The next of the Working Waterfront Writers Group kicks off on October 13 at 7:30 pm. The Gloucester Writers Center and Maritime Gloucester are offering a writers group for current and past waterfront workers led by the Writers Center’s Amanda Cook. We will focus on writing about work, the relationship between the writer and the waterfront and […]
Fiction Workshop with Ann McArdle Four Thursday mornings, October 8, 15, 22, and 29 from 10 am to noon. Learn from the masters. This course will help you move your own work forward through close observation of the treatments of specific elements of story by successful authors, and by discussion of how you might apply […]
“Why Write? To Better Understand the World and the People Who Live in It” – Brian Turner, Iraq Veteran and Poet Veterans Writing Workshop, Fall 2015, Starts Oct. 1. The Inner Voice and the Outer World The Veterans Writing Workshop helps people get started or move forward on their own writing projects. Veterans from all […]
Ellen Szabo. Fridays, October 9 to November 13 9 to 11AM Writing memoir is a way to figure out who you used to be and how you got to be who you are. This workshop will explore the process of writing unforgettable memoir. In a supportive stimulating atmosphere, participants will learn the rules […]
Saturday October 17th @ 6:30 The incomparable Jim Dowd will guide a conversation about the importance of contrarian voices - from punk rock to communists to why Charles Olson was dead flat wrong. Hmmm?Jim is co-creator of the Gloucester Clam. You don't know what that is...well; its time you knew. At the home of […]
Ellen Szabo. This class has been postponed. Stay tuned for more details. Discover rebel poetry – this workshop is designed to inspire. Fun, instructive and liberating. In a supportive stimulating atmosphere, participants will learn the rules and how to break them. Includes brief mini-lectures, guided discussion of selected poems by established writers, writing prompts/ten minute […]