We Resist: A Reading.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Fish Tales: I Protest.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl
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 […]
DIG IN!
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesAs 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 […]
Open Mic SCHEDULE CHANGE
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
Olivia Kate Cerrone: The Hunger Saint
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterTHE 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 […]
Rick Berlin
The Paragraphs is a memoir of a life in music, made up of vignettes penned as exercises in songwriting by Boston music icon Rick Berlin. Created from fragments used to write songs, this memoir recalls a life of music, a relationship with the animal world, and a two-day meth-fueled road trip. Berlin, a queer Boston […]
Hettie Jones: Weekend Memoir Workshop
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterStudents in this workshop will begin to create a personal memoir in the context of its own time and place. Guided by exercises and examples from published work, each three-hour session will offer time for both writing and oral critique. Best known for How I Became Hettie Jones, her memoir of the “beat scene” of […]
Stephanie Cassatly
When Stephanie Cassatly was 18 years old, her mother was shot and killed in a convenience store robbery in New Orleans, changing every preconceived notion she had about the world and what it meant to feel safe. Twenty years later, she found her mother’s killer and forgave him, just before he died in the notorious […]
Open Mic
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!