The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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 […]
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 […]
Danuta Borchardt’s memoir, Life behind an Author’s Works—Memoir of a Translator, subtitled How I Came to Translate Witold Gombrowicz and the Many Faces of Thom covers about twenty years of her life. It deals with the art and craft of translating the novels of Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), an avant-garde Polish writer, allegedly a nominee for […]
If you’re looking for something a little different to do with your Friday evening, try attending a Fish Tales; a popular, oral storytelling event, hosted by the Gloucester Writers Center. For every new Fish Tales, there is a chosen theme, and local storytellers gather to tell their tales. Whether the theme is baseball or nerds, […]
