The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
Robert Buckeye and Peter Anastas will read from new work in fiction and non-fiction, followed by a dialogue focusing on the writers and texts that have informed and inspired their writing and brought them to where they are now. Anastas will read from his recently completed memoir From Gloucester Out. Buckeye will read from […]
Ann Charters, noted Beat Generation scholar, photographer, and Professor Emerita at University of Connecticut, Storrs, visits Gloucester to discuss her correspondence with poet Charles Olson. Beginning in 1968 with Charters' request for Olson to reflect on his "earliest enthusiasm for Melville," and continuing until late 1969, these letters traverse the final two years of Olson's […]
Rescheduled for October 24 Anita Diamant, New York Times Bestselling Author October 24th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The Azorean Restaurant, 133 Washington Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts Limited Number of Tickets Available Online ONLY. $50.00 per person, includes a wide variety of delicious tapas (cash bar) Proceeds benefit the Gloucester Writers Center […]
Don Wellman's most recent publication is Albiach / Celan: Reading Across Languages (Annex Press, Spring 2017). He will read from recent translations of the work of Roberto Echavarren and Néstor Perlongher, both are crucial poets with respect to the development of experimental or neobarroco poetry from Latin America. He will also read from a new […]
Laura Harrington, award winning playwright, lyricist and librettist, winner of the 2008 Kleban Award for “most promising librettist in American Musical Theatre,” has written dozens of plays, musicals, operas and radio plays which have been produced in 28 states, Canada and Europe, in venues ranging from Off-Broadway to Houston Grand Opera to the Paris Cinemateque. […]
Be a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! The Sawyer Free Library and the Gloucester Writers Center invite all young adults to a series of workshops to help with the process, culminating in an open-mic style reading at the Gloucester Writers Center. We will meet Mondays in the Young Adult section of the library […]
Jim Dunn is the author of SOFT LAUNCH (Bootstrap Productions), CONVENIENT HOLE (Pressed Wafer), and INSECTS IN SEX (Falling Angels Press). His work has appeared in various publications including Bright Pink Mosquito, Gerry Mulligan, Carve, No Infinite, Shampoo, EOAGH, Polis, The Battersea Review, and Jacket2 and elsewhere. He lives in Beverly, MA. Laurette Folk […]
Be a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! The Sawyer Free Library and the Gloucester Writers Center invite all young adults to a series of workshops to help with the process, culminating in an open-mic style reading at the Gloucester Writers Center. We will meet Mondays in the Young Adult section of the […]
Gabriel Barboza was birth'd in Massachusetts - Nurtured by New Bedford / Fall River people - Had first meeting with Walt Whitman at 16 - Digs the cosmos / circles / sexes / dreams - Currently learning to breathe. Born in Salem, Paul Cultrera found his way to Gloucester in 1974. While there two books […]
