The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Erica Funkhouser and Soren Stockman
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn addition to Post & Rail, Erica Funkhouser has published four books of poetry with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and one with Alice James Books. Included in Sure Shot (HM 1992) are three dramatic monologues in the voices of 19th century American women: Sacagawea, Louisa May Alcott, and Annie Oakley. The Oakley poem was adapted for […]
Ann Charters
Among other books, Ann Charters has written & edited two books about & by Charles Olson in the 1960s, compiled a bibliography of Jack Kerouac & wrote his first biography (1973), and edited ten editions of the college textbook THE STORY AND ITS WRITER (1985-2019). Her talk is A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE: REVISITING […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
Hettie Jones Memoir Workshop
Hettie Jones will be bringing her memoir workshop back to the GWC on August 10 and 11 for three hours each day. The two-day session is $200. Enrollment is closed. Thank you for your interest! For more information on Hettie Jones visit www.hettiejones.com/about
Ammon Hillman
Jewish temple worship and Christian communion are both the direct product and development of late Bronze Age (1200-1000 BCE) ritual orgy. So-called Echidnaic-Ios rites sprang from the genius of a single pre-classical venom specialist, a female immigrant to ancient Georgia, who pioneered the use of her vagina as a device for bio-engineering and administering psychotropic […]
Raymond Foye
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterRaymond Foye was born in 1957 in Lowell, Mass. He is a writer, curator, editor and publisher. He studied with Stan Brakhage at the Art Insitute of Chicago. He was a literary editor with City Lights Books, New Directions, and Black Sparrow Press. He was Director of Exhibitions and Publications at Gagosian Gallery from 1990-95. […]
Writing Around the Fold
Flat Rocks Gallery 77 Langsford Street, Gloucester, MAWriting Around the Fold a writing and paper play workshop for all ages with Gloucester Writers Center’s Amanda Cook in collaboration with B O U S T R O P H E D O N S an exhibit at Flat Rock Gallery Saturday, September 1 3:00 77 Langsford Street Gloucester
Symbiotic Earth
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterSymbiotic Earth How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution. Explores the life and ideas of Lynn Margulis, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative: life evolves through collaboration. "An amazing film...I was on the edge of my seat the entire film, completely engrossed in the story […]
Dogtown Writers Festival Committee Meeting
Dogtown Writers Festival (DWF) Committee Needs Assistance... New dates of Friday Sept 20th and Saturday, Sept 21st 2019 have been scheduled for GWC’s Dogtown Writers Festival with the theme: “Finding Words In Place.” The committee needs assistance in several areas, including: -Administrative Assistance and Oversight, -Marketing and Promotion, -Corporate Sponsorship, -Registration, -Hospitality, Local Author “Bookfest”, […]