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The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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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!
Lee Van Der Voo. Fish Market: Inside the Big Money Battle for the Ocean & Your Dinner Plate.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterAboard fishing vessels from Alaska to Maine, inside restaurants of top chefs, and from the halls of Congress, in The Fish Market, journalist Lee van der Voo tells the story of the people and places left behind in the era of ocean privatization―a trend that now controls more than half of American seafood. Following […]
Cathy Strisik, Ani Gjika and Pui Ying Wong
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCathy Strisik is author of two poetry collections, The Mistress (3: A Taos Press, 2016), recently nominated for the New Mexico/Arizona Book award, and Thousand-Cricket Song (2010, 2nd edition, 2016 Plain View Press), and manuscript-in-progress, Pitchfork, as well as co-founder and editor of the online journal, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art (www.taosjournalofpoetry.com). Strisik, […]
Charles Guiliano and Geoffrey Movius
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCharles Giuliano returns to Cape Ann to read from his fourth and newest book Gloucester Poems: The Nugents of Rockport. Giuliano has a long family history in Gloucester and he comes back to share his excavations and observations in this new volume. Geoffrey Movius first came to Cape Ann in the summer of 1944, and has […]