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Yearly Archives: 2011

Morning Raga by Elizabeth McKim and Michael Siegell.

By steveb | Published: December 13, 2011
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 on Cape Ann.   Annie Thomas & Henry Ferrini co-directors
Posted in News | Tagged Charles Olson, Elizabeth McKim, Michael Siegell, music, musician, poet, video | Comments closed

First 10 minutes of David Wise’s new play TOUR

By steveb | Published: December 4, 2011
View the first 10 minutes of David Wise's new play TOUR. Look for the entire reading coming soon to Cape Ann TV.
Posted in News | Tagged David Wise, playwright, video | Comments closed

Finish Line Writers Group featured on GMG

By steveb | Published: December 4, 2011
Read about the  "Finish Line " writers group on Good Morning Gloucester
Posted in News | Tagged Terry Weber, workshop | Comments closed

GDT story on David Wise’s TOUR”

By steveb | Published: December 4, 2011
Terry Weber's outstanding GDT story on David Wise's TOUR    
Posted in News, Uncategorized | Tagged David Wise, playwright | Comments closed

GWC Fall Newsletter

By steveb | Published: November 21, 2011
The Gloucester Writers Center Fall Newsletter is available
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Andre´ Spears talks about his involvement with the Gloucester Writers Center

By steveb | Published: November 20, 2011
I’ve been asked by Henry Ferrini and Anne Thomas to write a few words about the trajectory that led me to join them in the project of founding the Gloucester Writers Center.    I encountered Olson’s work late, sometime in the mid-1980’s,  in the course of determining the “area concentration” of my doctoral work in [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Andre´ Spears, experimental, poet | Comments closed

High School Writers Group

By steveb | Published: November 14, 2011
Meets Monday Nights from 5:30-6:30 and all area HS age writers are welcome.
Posted in News | Tagged Charlee Bianchini | Comments closed

Iain Sinclair

By steveb | Published: October 17, 2011
If you missed it live- see recording of Iain Sinclair's talk 10-15-11 in four parts
Posted in News, Video | Tagged Charles Olson, filmmaker, Ian Sinclair, memoir, poet, psychogeographer, video | Comments closed

Writer-in-Residence Ammiel Alcalay reflects on his stay at the GWC.

By steveb | Published: September 15, 2011
Posted in News | Tagged Ammiel Alcalay, Charles Olson, Vincent Ferrini | Comments closed

Writers Center hosts Andrei Codrescu

By steveb | Published: September 9, 2011
Boston.com writes about how we celebrate Gloucester's literary past
Posted in News | Tagged Andrei Codrescu, Charles Olson, novel, poet | Comments closed

GWC writing coach Charlee Bianchini

By steveb | Published: July 30, 2011
GWC writing coach Charlee Bianchini helps Laura Harrington as she signs copies of her new novel Alice Bliss.
Posted in News | Tagged Charlee Bianchini, fiction, memoir, non-fiction, short stories | Comments closed

Kirk Proclaims Olson, Ferrini Honorary Poets Laureate

By steveb | Published: February 6, 2011
Posted in Misc | Tagged Charles Olson, poet, Vincent Ferrini | Comments closed

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  • "my visit to the
    Gloucester Writers Center was very inspirational...
    There's something about that set of rooms, the Center,
    that seems to shout "Yes!" to poetry, writing, rumination,
    study and planning."

    Ed Sanders

    The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a town that knows about work.

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