Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Each reader gets 5 minutes.  Sign up at the door.  Bring your words.  Get heard!

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Each reader gets five minutes.  Sign up at the door.   Bring your words.  Get heard!

Milkweed

Join us for a reading from the first issue! Milkweed is a Greater Boston area based literary journal that features poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from a variety of different writers. Milkweed was founded with the intention of seeking out writers who produce unique and thought-provoking work. At Milkweed, we are avid readers ourselves, and we […]

Dan Duffy and Jan Blais

Dan Duffy’s memoir Brother, Brother; mostly truth, part fiction, is a tribute to his older brother Rich, whom he will always consider a casualty of the post-Vietnam era. Missing in America for the past 45 years, Rich mysteriously reappears along with his ’66 GTO convertible and coerces Dan to retrace the cross-country route he took […]

International Women’s Day Reading

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

“Every Man / Every Woman carries a firmament inside & the stars in it are not the stars in the sky” Diane di Prima Women of Cape Ann. Let us get together to celebrate the writings of women. You are invited to read at this event from the writings of one or two of your […]

Creative Diversions for the Writer’s Brain

Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, Gloucester

Cancelled CREATIVE DIVERSIONS FOR THE WRITER’S BRAIN Peer-facilitated writing group with Stacey Dexter This group will focus on writing from prompts, free writing sessions and writing stories in the round. Facilitator will provide prompts, guidance and keep the group on task. Sharing with each other will keep it fresh and fun! The group is open […]

Lynn Xu and Joshua Edwards

Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. She is the author of Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn), which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and June (a chapbook from Corollary Press). She has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation. When not traveling, she lives in Marfa, […]

Intro to Memoir Writing

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

CANCELLED INTRO TO MEMOIR WRITING Peer-facilitated writing group with Dan Duffy The purpose of this group is to learn from and contribute to each other’s understanding of memoir writing. The Facilitator and group members will help to create a learning environment for beginning writers to: meet, write, share segments of their writing, and provide feedback […]