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Maud/Olson Library

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Donations can be made through the Paypal link on our home page, or by mail to: Gloucester Writers Center, 126 East Main Street, Gloucester MA 01930. [gravityform id=”3″ title=”true” description=”true”]

COVID-19 Update

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Covid-19 shuttered the Gloucester Writers Center and the Maud / Olson Library.The pandemic locked the door on these special places devoted to reading, writing and rumination. It put  an end […]

Books by B.B. Boudreau to help GWC

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For years the GWC has been the home to a the Finish Line Writers Group.  These dedicated writers meet every two weeks to support and critique each other’s work.  The group has midwifed a number […]

My Impressions of the Dogtown Writers Festival

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  The inaugural Dogtown Writers Festival exceeded all expectations. Opening to a packed City Hall auditorium on Friday night, September 27, internationally renown, literary journalist, Sandy Tolan, set the tone. […]

Dogtown Writers Festival

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The Dogtown Writers Festival September 27 and 28 Join us and other fellow writers in exploring and celebrating PLACE, with Cape Ann as a microcosm of the global macrocosm. The […]

Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop Resumes October 18, 2018

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The first gathering for the Veterans Writing Workshop, Fall, 2018, will take place on Oct 18th at the Veterans Center, 12 Emerson Ave. Please register at Cape Ann Veterans Services […]

Job Opening

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The Gloucester Writers Center is seeking the right person to work part-time (20 hours/week) managing the 5,500 volume Maud / Olson Library special collection. The collection includes: Books, periodicals and […]

Get involved!

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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 […]

Many Thanks!

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Thanks to all who helped to make our recent Incredible Dancer, the Long Night event such a wonderful evening. We raised over $20,000 for the work of the Gloucester Writers […]

Incredible Dancer Auction Items

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Boca Raton Vacation: Stay in a beautiful house in Boca  for a week during Winter, 2019. Enjoy the saltwater pool and jacuzzi, nearby beaches, and wildlife galore. 4 bedroom, 4 […]

Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer

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Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer, founders of Wellspring House, advocates for social justice, writers and activists, have inspired many of us on Cape Ann for almost 4 decades.  We try […]

Incredible Dancer Gala

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Purchase tickets here! We 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 […]

Our Annual Appeal

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Summer, 2017 Dear Friend,   At the Gloucester Writers Center, we believe in the power of words – they can destroy walls and build bridges. The GWC provides a haven […]

2017 Preservation Awards

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The Gloucester Historical Commission invites the public to attend the annual 2017 Preservation Awards ceremony on Saturday, May 6, 2 to 4 pm at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester. […]

Friends of the GWC Resist

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Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Dispatches Editions, and Spuyten Duyvil Press are extremely happy to announce the publication of RESIST MUCH / OBEY LITTLE Inaugural Poems to the Resistance   […]

Writers Resist

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Writers Resist: Don’t Tread On Us Listen to the podcast here. On Sunday, January 15, local authors and others from the arts community gathered at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center […]

Bianchini Write On Winners

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Congratulations! The Gloucester Writers Center is proud to announce the winners of the Bianchini Write On Award. First Place Lenore Balliro “A Dream of Revenge in Film Noir” Honorable Mention […]

A Night at The Tavern

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Join us as we celebrate the opening of the Maud / Olson Library.  The library will open to the public on June 18 from 1-4 p.m.  In the evening we […]

Charles Olson’s Table

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Charles Olson’s Table Maud/Olson Library, 108 E. Main Street, Gloucester, MA Peter Anastas   Sitting at the long, wide, wooden, cigarette-burn-spotted trestle table at the Gloucester Writers Center’s new Ralph […]

Our Annual Appeal

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The Gloucester Writers Center spans the generations with memory and imagination, and the community responds. Your participation makes our work possible. Please read our annual letter and give what you […]

10-Minute Playwrights Honored

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Linda Finigan, Carole Frohlich, and M. Lynda Robinson at the women’s playwriting festival, “Our Voices,” at Wellesley College in September.  Their plays were developed in the Writing a 10-Minute Play […]

Writers Feasts: All the Time Before & All the Time After: Feast with Greg Gibson

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 Writers Feasts are dinners generously prepared and donated by Gloucester Writer Center supporters. You pay a fee of $60 for a place at the table. You will converse with an author or participate […]

June 20th we celebrate our 5th Anniversary!

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In 2013 our third anniversary coincided with Vincent Ferrini’s centenary.  This June Vincent’s spirit returns bringing with him the ghosts of Olson and Eliot. Don’t miss it!   Here is a 2 min […]

June 20th we celebrate our 5th Anniversary!

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In 2013 our third anniversary coincided with Vincent Ferrini’s centenary.  This June Vincent’s spirit returns bringing with him the ghosts of Olson and Eliot. Don’t miss it!   Here is a 2 min […]

Paralyzed From the Neck Down

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By Anthony Weller Wall Street Journal April 10, 2015 6:26 p.m. ET The strangest aspect of being paralyzed is that nobody ever, ever asks you what it’s like. This may […]

Paralyzed From the Neck Down

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By Anthony Weller Wall Street Journal April 10, 2015 6:26 p.m. ET The strangest aspect of being paralyzed is that nobody ever, ever asks you what it’s like. This may […]

Veronica Golos

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From The Lost Notebook of Mary Day Brown, Elba, New York, late evening, December 6, 1859  (5 days after the hanging of my husband John Brown.) This morning they began […]

Veronica Golos

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From The Lost Notebook of Mary Day Brown, Elba, New York, late evening, December 6, 1859  (5 days after the hanging of my husband John Brown.) This morning they began […]

International Women’s Day at The Gloucester Writers Center

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    On Sunday afternoon March 8, over 25 women gathered at the Writers Center to read from the work of their favorite women writers. As the event began the […]

International Women’s Day at The Gloucester Writers Center

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    On Sunday afternoon March 8, over 25 women gathered at the Writers Center to read from the work of their favorite women writers. As the event began the […]

Ralph Maud: 12/24/1928−12/8/2014

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It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Ralph Maud. Ralph was scheduled to deliver this year’s Charles Olson Lecture, but was forced to cancel the engagement […]

Ralph Maud:
12/24/1928−12/8/2014

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It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Ralph Maud. Ralph was scheduled to deliver this year’s Charles Olson Lecture, but was forced to cancel the engagement […]

Veterans Writing Workshop, Fall 2014

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Writers from the Veterans Writing Workshop held their third public reading on Friday morning, December 5, 2014, at the Gloucester Veterans Center on Emerson Avenue. The group, poets and prose writers, is […]

Veterans Writing Workshop, Fall 2014

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Writers from the Veterans Writing Workshop held their third public reading on Friday morning, December 5, 2014, at the Gloucester Veterans Center on Emerson Avenue. The group, poets and prose writers, is […]

Collaboration with MCC Commonwealth Reading Series

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Left to right:  MCC Awardies  David Daniel,  Marsha Pomerantz,and  Ann McArdle, along with Dan Blask (MCC)  at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck. Click on Picture to get to link […]

Ferrini's Theory of Poetry on Display Downtown

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Check out Tricia O’Neill’s wonderful mural with Tony Millionaire’s drawing of Vincent Ferrini on the corner of Main and Porter St.

Ferrini’s Theory of Poetry on Display Downtown

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Check out Tricia O’Neill’s wonderful mural with Tony Millionaire’s drawing of Vincent Ferrini on the corner of Main and Porter St.

Collaboration with MCC Commonwealth Reading Series

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Left to right:  MCC Awardies  David Daniel,  Marsha Pomerantz,and  Ann McArdle, along with Dan Blask (MCC)  at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck. Click on Picture to get to link […]

Jennifer Bartlett Discusses Larry Eigner

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“It was a truly inspiring evening with Jennifer Bartlett. She conveyed so much of what it takes to be a writer, it was all there on the tip of her tongue. […]

Jennifer Bartlett
Discusses Larry Eigner

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“It was a truly inspiring evening with Jennifer Bartlett. She conveyed so much of what it takes to be a writer, it was all there on the tip of her tongue. […]

Fish Tales

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                    Rick Doucette, Meredith Fine, Heidi Pulkkinen and Cindy Schimanski performed at the Goetemann Gallery to a Standing Room only audience […]

Fish Tales

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                    Rick Doucette, Meredith Fine, Heidi Pulkkinen and Cindy Schimanski performed at the Goetemann Gallery to a Standing Room only audience […]

Charlotte's Lacey Reads of Only a Dot on the Map: St John Remembered.

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Charlotte Lacey,  her brother Al Sawyer, her son and husband Hamer Lacey stand for a photo after  Charlotte’s reading of  Only a Dot on the Map: St John Remembered. Brother Al’s […]

Willie Loco Alexander

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Willie Alexander  delivered his “One Night Only Rock n’ Roll Songwriting Workshop on August 13 at the GWC. If you missed Willie live,  click on his picture to see to […]

Willie Loco Alexander

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Willie Alexander  delivered his “One Night Only Rock n’ Roll Songwriting Workshop on August 13 at the GWC. If you missed Willie live,  click on his picture to see to […]

Amiri Baraka Scholarship Award

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When Amiri Baraka delivered the fourth annual Charles Olson Lecture last October at the Cape Ann Museum he had an impact on the community. Susan Pollack was one of those affected by Baraka’s brilliance […]

Morning Raga by Elizabeth McKim and Michael Siegell.

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This was our last event of 2011. Next year we look forward to panoply of the arts at the GWC.  Thanks to all who helped make the GWC a cultural force […]

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