The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Veterans Writing Workshop, Fall 2015
November 5, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
“Why Write? To Better Understand the World
and the People Who Live in It” – Brian Turner, Iraq Veteran and Poet
Veterans Writing Workshop, Fall 2015, Starts Oct. 1.
The Inner Voice and the Outer World
The Veterans Writing Workshop helps people get started or move forward on their own writing projects. Veterans from all wars and disaster relief, and family members are invited to participate. The workshop takes place at the Veterans Center, 12 Emerson Avenue in Gloucester, on Thursdays from 10 – 12 p.m. beginning October 1 and ending November 12. Class size is limited to 12 writers.
From Week to Week
Writing is the goal. This workshop fosters a regular writing practice in a comfortable atmosphere with a spirit of openness and receptivity. The creative process is different for everyone and like a river, it changes. You will have the opportunity to share your work and enjoy the writing of others. Writers will receive individual attention through weekly written comments and personal conferences. Brief excerpts from relevant readings in prose and poetry will be shared.
The workshop should strengthen your confidence as a writer, and as a critical thinker and editor of your own work. Past participants in the workshop have recognized progress in their writing and take pride in seeing the work of the mind unfold on the page.
Dorothy Shubow Nelson, M.A. English, workshop facilitator and teacher, offers guidance and direction. Formerly Senior Lecturer in English at UMass Boston, she has taught writing and literature for over 25 years. Her poems, reviews and other writings have appeared in various publications. Her book of poems, The Dream of the Sea, was published in 2008. She participates annually with the Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences and serves as an Advisor to the Gloucester Writers Center.
“Somewhere along here I first became conscious of the feeling…
that comes when you first notice your life turning into a story.”
– from A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean.
Register with Lucia Amero at the Gloucester Office of Veterans Services 12 Emerson Avenue. Call 978-281-9740. This workshop is supported by the Gloucester Office of Veterans Services and the Gloucester Writers Center. There is no charge for this workshop.
For more information contact: Dorothy.Nelson@umb.edu