The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Naming the World with Julie Batten
Naming the World with Julie Batten
Naming the World - a weekend of Personal Essay based on Bret Anthony Johnston’s book. To write well we must be able to "name the world" around us in such a way as to throw a new light on the ordinary, to see the everyday through a different lens - one that measures the now […]
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Framing the Story: An Introduction to the Art of the Graphic Memoir
Framing the Story: An Introduction to the Art of the Graphic Memoir
Framing the Story: An Introduction to the Art of the Graphic Memoir Before we can put a single word down on the page, we must first behold the mental image, however fleeting, that informs our meaning-making process. This is what makes the graphic novel such an incredible lesson to us as writers. It teaches us how to frame images in […]
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Ann Charters
Ann Charters
Ann Charters will be talking about how Charles Olson influenced her a young writer. She met him in 1968, after she had spent the years 1963-65 in the graduate English program at Columbia. Her dissertation was about 19th century writers in the Berkshires, with chapters on Melville and Hawthorne. When she began to read Olson […]