The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
July 27th 7:30pm Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Gloucester Writers Center Presents Stephen Dunn & Lawrence Raab Stephen Dunn is the author of 18 collections of poetry, the most recent of which is LINES OF DEFENSE (Norton), and a chapbook KEEPER OF LIMITS: The Mrs. Cavendish Poems (Sarabande). His awards include the Pulitzer Prize, an […]
Bring your words. Get heard! Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door.
Marta Elva will discuss the process of writing and read selections from her novel, American Tumbleweeds, published by Circling Rivers. Set in El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, Mexico, American Tumbleweeds, tells the bittersweet story of thirteen-year-old Inez, whose Mexican-American family struggles to stay together as tradition collides with the social upheaval of 1960s America. Inez’s […]
SUMMER ON MEETINGHOUSE GREEN Eight Friday evening outdoor concerts using the Unitarian Universalist Church entrance area as a stage, free and open to the public, to support Cape Ann non-profits and build awareness of the historic meetinghouse preservation efforts. All audience contributions via free-will offerings, membership and other income go to that evening's partner […]
Brenda Walcott is a teacher and a writer who has never separated those two worlds. Her teaching career started in an experimental early child hood school, in her home city of Brooklyn, New York. Children with symptoms ranging from autism to severe infantile depression were mainstreamed, with those children to were developmentally “normal.” Brenda was […]
Celebrate Jonathan Bayliss’s 90th Birthday with 90-degree turns through Gloucesterbook Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, at 7:30 pm 126 East Main Street Birthday cake, short readings from the novel, and wine Jonathan Bayliss (Sept. 7, 1926-2009) was a playwright and novelist, friend of Olson and Ferrini. His fiction tetralogy Gloucesterman comprises the novelsPrologos, Gloucesterbook, Gloucestertide, and […]
André Spears, co-founder of the Gloucester Writers Center & director of its Maud / Olson Library, will read from work in progress, recent excerpts from which have appeared in Dispatches from the Poetry Wars under the titles "Ship of State" (Parts 1 & 2).
Donald J. Byrd is a poet, sound artist, and Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany. His work is generally in the fields of literary analysis and information theory. In his lifetime, he proposes to complete one-hundred volumes that will complete a set which he refers to as The Nomad's […]
4-Week Workshop with Staged Reading event post-Workshop M. Lynda Robinson *POSTPONED ONE WEEK* This workshop will now begin on Thursday, September 29 and end on Thursday, October 20 Thursday Evenings, September 29, October 6, October 13 and October 20 7:00-9:30 $125 Public Staged Reading – date TBD Limited to 12 participants. Everyone has a story […]
