FIRST MONDAY OPEN MIC AT GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER

Bring your words. Bring your stories. Or simply come listen.

Join us the first Monday of every month from 7–9 PM for Open Mic at Gloucester Writers Center, hosted by Bob Whelan and featuring a different guest poet or writer each month.

This month’s featured writer: Elizabeth Wolf

Elizabeth S. Wolf has published 6 books, most recently Parenting in the Age of Columbine (2025). Her memoir Did You Know? was a 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize winner. Rattle Summer 2022 featured her project with Prisoner Express. In 2023 Elizabeth taped readings at the White House, Supreme Court, and US Capitol with The Scheherazade Project. She was featured in Boston Literary Magazine in April 2026. Her work is on the moon with the Lunar Codex.

Want to read? No advance registration is needed. Just sign in when you arrive and bring a poem, short piece of prose, essay, story, or other work you’d like to share. Writers will be called in order, followed by a short intermission and a reading from our featured writer.

Prefer to listen? Come on in! There’s no need to sign in or participate.

All genres. All levels. Writers, readers, listeners and the simply curious are welcome.

📍 Gloucester Writers Center
🗓 First Monday of every month
⏰ 7–9 PM
🎤 Hosted by Bob Whelan

Come to read. Come to listen. Come be part of Gloucester’s writing community.