Annual Meeting
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterSaturday, June 3 11:00
The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
Saturday, June 3 11:00
Gloucester 'Love Fest' - an interactive community art project traveling throughout Gloucester neighborhoods this summer to help spread messages of LOVE and POSITIVITY. Messages are written on banner paper ('Love Panels'). At the end of the project, all the panels will be brought together for display at City Hall. Share messages of love, and watch love 'ripple out' […]
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
A native of New York City, Richard Grossinger attended Amherst College and the University of Michigan, receiving a BA in English (1966) and a PhD in anthropology (1975). He wrote his doctoral thesis on his fieldwork with fishermen in Eastern Maine, after which he taught fortwo years at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham and […]
In collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
In collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
Richard Deming will read from his latest collection of poems, Day for Night; the work takes its title from the cinematic term for shooting night scenes during the day. Deming’s complex lyricism explores the ways that art, film, music, and literature creates possibilities for human encounter and interaction even as it considers the impossibilities of ever truly […]
As part of the RESIST exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Cape Ann Farmers Market presents: Dig In: A Conversation about the Politics of Food Saturday July 1st 5:00 – 8:00 Cooking Demos Interactive Activities Postcard Writing Vendors and A Panel Discussion about Food Activism co-sponsored by the Gloucester Writers Center 6:00 pm […]
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
THE HUNGER SAINT is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as "a well- crafted and affecting literary tale," this historical novella follows the journey of Ntoni, a twelve-year-old boy forced to labor in Sicily's sulfur mines to support his family after his father's untimely death. Faced with life-threatening […]