Our Readers & Writers Guild meets select months in the Preston Cutler Room at Christ Church to hear a featured reader, as well as, share open mic time and peruse attendee's books for sale. We will share potluck snacks.  All are welcome!  For further information, please contact Betsy Retallack.

Next meeting: 7:00 p.m. on Friday, May 15

Featured Reader: Webster Bull

A Beverly resident for more than 50 years, Webster Bull was an economics major and a theater minor who took up writing only when he had to, for business. Only then did he realize that he enjoyed writing—when it had a purpose. 

Beginning in the 1980s, Webster started two small publishing companies; first as a ghostwriter and private publisher for the memoirs of private clients; then together with his wife Katie he published trade books of local interest in New England under the trade name Commonwealth Editions. 

He told himself that once he retired from writing and publishing books "for blood," he would write books "for love," but now that he is retired, he says, books are just too hard! So he writes poems instead.

He wrote love poems to Katie 42 years ago when first married; now he writes poems based mostly on his experiences as a Catholic convert and a recovering alcoholic. 

His substack is titled "Prayer into Poetry" and can be found at websterbull.substack.com.  

Upcoming meetings: The third Friday of every other month in fall, winter, and spring.