Fish Tales: Women and Children First
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesWith stories by: * Brian Orr * Phoebe Potts * Cassy Bretton * Heather Sweet * Sandra Winter * Lilly Wandwoffen * Catherine Clark
The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Garrison Nelson
Garrison Nelson: Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior Department of Political Science reads from his new book on John McCormack. Before the house had Tip O'Neill, there was John McCormack. How did this man, with an eighth grade education and a false family history, become Speaker of the […]
Dale Smith. The Circle of the Bee-Hive: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterDale Smith explores the correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson as a pivotal moment in mid-twentieth century American writing, drawing on ideas of form and place in the making of poetry vs. what Duncan called "the mania that a nation is." Dale Smith is a poet, critic and scholar of poetry and poetics […]
Veterans and Their Families Read from The Inner Voice and The Outer World.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesVeterans and Their Families will read their stories and poems from the anthology, The Inner Voice and The Outer World, on Saturday, June 9th from 3 – 5 PM at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, 6 Wonson Court. The writers represent current and recent members of the Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop. James Grigg, […]
Bob Holman and Eric Edwards
Bob Holman, founder of the Bowery Poetry Club, is the author of 17 poetry collections, including Sing This One Back to Me (Coffee House Press), and A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture, a collaboration with Chuck Close), and has taught at Princeton, Columbia, NYU, Bard, and The New School. These days, a lot […]
Incredible Dancer Gala
33 Commercial Street 33 Commercial Street, Gloucester, MAWe will celebrate the work of the Gloucester Writers Center with The Incredible Dancer Gala in a tent by Pavillion Beach on one of the longest nights of the year. In the words of the poet Vincent Ferrini we will “take conviviality to another sphere” with music, dance, and delicious food. Buy tickets here!
Sigrid Olsen: My Life Redesigned
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn this visually rich memoir, Sigrid Olsen traces her journey from art student entrepreneur to nationally known fashion designer, and full circle back to her roots as an artist and spiritual seeker. After multiple major upheavals that left her gasping for air, Sigrid did what any burned-out, creatively compulsive, former-hippie, fashion executive would do…she packed […]
William Bernhardt
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterNoted author William Bernhardt stops by the GWC for a conversation about writing Monday, July 9th, 7:30 PM William Bernhardt is an American thriller/mystery/suspense fiction author best known for his "Ben Kincaid" series of books. With sales of over 10 million books, William Bernhardt is one of the most popular writing instructors in the nation, […]