Veterans Writing Workshop

Spring 2014

The Inner Voice and the Outer World 

Why Write? “To better understand the world we live inand the people who live in it.”  Brian Turner, Iraq Veteran and Poet

The Gloucester Office of Veterans Services& The Gloucester Writers Centerannounce an eight-week writing workshopfor Veterans on Thursdays from 10:00 – 12:00March 20 through May 8, 2014at the Office of Veterans Services, 12 Emerson Avenue , Gloucester.

The workshop will take place on Thursdays from 10:00 a.m.– 12:00 p.m.

We will focus on the writing process andexplore different forms, such as poetry, memoir, essays, reporting and stories in an informal, supportive environment.

Facilitator: Dorothy Shubow Nelson, M.A. English,

Board Member, Gloucester Writers Center .

Workshop materials may include excerpts from the writings of men and women  published in current journals such as After Action Review;  and Consequence Magazine; a chapter from the novel The Yellow Birds, by Iraq Veteran, Kevin Powers; and post war writings from WWI, WWII and the Vietnam War.

Dorothy Shubow Nelson, formerly Senior Lecturer in English at UMass/Boston, has taught writing and literature for 25 years. With the support of the Gloucester Writers Center she organized “ Readings and Conversations on War and Writing” featuring poetry and prose of North Shore Veterans, William Joiner Center Faculty and Veterans, and Consequence Magazine. Her collection of poems, The Dream of the Sea, was published in 2008.

Workshop limited to ten participants.

To register call Lucia Amero at 978-281-9740

For more information send email to Dorothy.nelson@umb.edu re: Writing Workshopand include your name, email address and phone number.