Gloucester Writers Center

A reading from spoKe six including David Rich reading from his essay on Gerrit Lansing, James Cook reading from his essay on Sam Cornish, poems by John Mulrooney, Jim Dunn […]

Novelist and short story writer Andre Dubus III’s seven books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His most recent novel, Gone So […]

Stephen Kalaghan is a long time Cape Ann area resident, having lived in Gloucester, MA and Rockport, MA since 1990. Originally from Weymouth, MA, he is a 1986 graduate of […]

Nadine Boughton, M.A., is a writer/poet, collage artist, coach and teacher. Her writing has been published in literary journals, trade books and presented in a number of venues. She studied […]

Patrick Barron grew up in the Pacific Northwest, lived in Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, and Italy for a number of years, and is now based in Boston, where he teaches […]

Mitch Manning is the author of city of water (Arrowsmith, 2019). He’s taught poetry in central China and his poems have been read in Basra, southern Iraq as part of the Boston […]

Ellen Wilkin has been writing for 45 years as a poet and essayist, as a technical writer and editor in the computer industry, and as a novelist. Several of her […]

Eloise Weld Hodges grew up in Essex, then moved in 1954 with her family to Dolliver’s Neck, Gloucester.  As Associate Editor and feature writer for North Shore Magazine (1975-80), she […]

Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau are both charter members of The Finish Line, a writer’s group that formed in the fall of 2011 and continues today.   Jane Keddy is a printmaker […]

Cathy Curtis is the author of two previous biographies of women artists, RESTLESS AMBITION: GRACE HARTIGAN, PAINTER (Oxford University Press, 2015) and A GENEROUS VISION: THE CREATIVE LIFE OF ELAINE DE […]

PATRICK DONNELLY is the author of four books of poetry, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019), Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012, a Lambda […]

Judith Wright was born in 1939 and is an artist living in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She became a Freedom Rider and was jailed in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1961. Later, […]

Áine Greaney is an Irish-born writer who lives on Boston’s North Shore. A former Gloucester resident, she has written five books and published and broadcast many essays, short stories and […]

Mary Baine Campbell is a Cambridge-based poet and scholar (of literature and the histories of travel, geography, science and utopia), as well as a climate activist.  Her publications include The Witness […]

The word ‘Community’ is the core of Wellspring’s Mission Statement, created in 1987.  That word expresses the way in which Wellspring’s life, work and decisions developed in a relational organizational […]

Jay Featherstone’s Glass is true to its title as these poems allow the reader to look straight though language to see clearly how joy and loss are inextricably connected (“On the path […]

Donald Wellman, poet, editor, and translator, his recent book of poetry is Essay Poems (Dos Madres: Loveland OH). Other books from Dos Madre include The Cranberry Island Series and A North Atlantic Wall; Prolog Pages was issued […]

Neeli Cherkovski was born in Los Angeles and has Lived in San Francisco since 1974.  He is the author of many books of poetry and prose and books translated into […]

Neeli Cherkovski answers some questions following his readings from Hyper and Elegy for my Beat Generation.

Schuyler Hoffman has published two books of poetry: Words in a Foreign Language and The Spaces Between as well as the collaborative poetry-music CD Sacrifice. His work has appeared in The Café Review and in The Anthology of Post-Beat […]

Yonghong Gu is a visiting scholar at UMass Boston from Suzhou, China. She has studied history, literature and business. She has worked in education and business. Joseph Torra is a poet, […]

Brenda Coultas’ poetry can be found in the recent anthologies: Readings in Contemporary Poetry published by the  DIA art foundation, What is Poetry (Just Kidding, I Know You Know) Interviews from the Poetry Project newsletter, […]

Like Vincent Ferrini, poet Linda McCarriston is a native of Lynn. She has two sons and four granddaughters. It took her much longer to settle in Gloucester than it did Vincent (she treasures a […]

Otto Laske was born in what is now West Poland (Wroclaw/Breslau) three years before the onset of World War II. His first poetry emerged in German at age 15, perhaps as […]

JoeAnn Hart and Maureen Aylward hosted a group of self proclaimed “Women Warriors” who braved the snow, sleet  to celebrate International Women’s Day at the Gloucester Writers Center. Here are […]

We celebrate the work of Gloucester High School students with the launch of the literary magazine, the Elicitor.  Readers include: Willa Brosnihan, Katherine Bevins, Fisher LeVasseur, Emma Killian, Natasha Baumgartel, […]

Dan Wilcox is the host of the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany, N.Y. and is a member of the poetry performance group “3 Guys […]

The Gloucester Writers Center invites members of two long-standing Rockport writing groups to share their work. With readings by Connie Komack, Joe Muzio, Chuck Francis, Caroline Haines, Jean Keith, Holly […]

The finale of a four part series on Vincent Ferrini at the Maud-Olson Library (February 7th)

Jennifer Martelli is the author of My Tarantella (Bordighera Press). Most recently, her work has appeared in Tinderbox Poetry, The Bitter Oleander, Sugar House Review, The Baltimore Review, and The Superstition Review. She has been […]

The third of a four part series on Vincent Ferrini at the Maud-Olson Library (January 31st)

Part two of a four part series on Vincent Ferrini at the Maud-Olson Library (February 7th) Before Gloucester focuses on City College of New York’s “Lost and Found” series. Ammiel […]

Community members share a poem they have been given as a gift, a poem given to them as a gift, or a poem dedicated to someone to share as we […]

Randy Ross is a Somerville-based writer, lecturer, and performer. His one-man show “The Chronic Single’s Handbook” has been featured at theater festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2007, […]

A look at Charles Olson through the works of Kate Colby, Amanda Cook and Kate Tarlow Morgan

An evening to honor Veterans Day and those who have served. Featured Readers: James Grigg, Poet, Viet Nam Veteran & Heather Dupont, Poet, V.A. Health Professional  

Broken Glory deals with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.  Fifty years after there are still unanswered questions about whether his murder was the result of a conspiracy. Broken Glory is a graphic […]

Poets Wendy Drexler, Holly Guran and Nancy Esposito are introduced by Amanda Cook

Raymond Foye is introduced by Jim Dunn  

Ammon Hillman Part 2 Q&A

Dr. Hillman is introduced by Dr. Susan Frey.

Photographer, Bibliographer, Editor, Olson scholar and aficionado Ann Charters reads from her new book at the GWC. August 1st, 2018.

Questions and Answers with David Herd.

Sigrid Olsen reads from her Memoir “My Life Redesigned”, at Rocky Neck Cultural Center.