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: Lisa J. Sullivan

Lisa J. Sullivan is a Massachusetts native who holds an MFA in Poetry from the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program, where she was a Kurt Brown Memorial Fellow. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in The Comstock Review, Evening Street Review, The Arts Fuse, Third Wednesday, Common Ground Review, and elsewhere. She was the United States winner of The Poetry Project–Ireland in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets and was an Adrian Tinsley Program Creative Grant recipient. Lisa is the Art Editor for Lily Poetry Review and a Poetry Editor for Pink Panther Magazine. Her debut poetry collection, Theory of Impact, was published in 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Books.

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.