Category Archives: Resident Writer’s Blog
Helen Fremont on her stay at the GWC
An ideal week. I came here to work on a new memoir, and feel I’ve been able to play intensively in the waves of some very rough material. I’ve gotten boatloads of work done (some of which I actually like!) and I’m looking forward to messing around with it for… oh, ever - or at least the next couple [...]
Ammiel Alcalay’s thoughts on his visit to the GWC in 2011
My stay at the Gloucester Writers House was filled with extraordinary and deeply layered meaning for me. Having spent a lot of time in Gloucester with my family, practically from birth to the mid 1960s, I haven’t had the opportunity since to spend a consecutive block of time in a place that has always [...]
Anne Waldman on her stay at the GWC
Gloucester Oct 12 Rain, the wind, the calibrations of memory and ethos: Water… and… Water… a Charles Olson thrust that could be in all of us, is, you know it… Invoking the feminine:, snaky & fluid rhythm. Working people, people working…fish &…poetry? Writing that all the world Is redeemed, and history And all that politics… [...]
An excerpt from forth coming novella by Resident Writer Shahar Bram
Here's an excerpt from a work-in-progress that I worked on while at the Gloucester Writers Center–it is a novella partly inspired by the surroundings and atmosphere in Gloucester. -Shahar Bram Kids’ laughter came from a distance, the joyous sound of children at play. Their voices rolled through the house like waves, washing his thoughts away. [...]
Rudy Rucker on Being a Visiting Writer in Gloucester
I visited the Writers Center in Gloucester, Mass, for a week. My wife Sylvia was along as well. We were lodged in the modest former home of the late Vincent Ferrini, a friend of Charles Olson’s and a beloved Gloucester poet in his own right. His film-maker nephew Henry Ferrini raised the funds to set [...]
Olivia Kate Cerrone on her Residency at the GWC