Posts Tagged ‘classes’
Josh Weil was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of rural Virginia, received his MFA from Columbia University, and is
currently the writer-in-residence at Gilman School in Baltimore. Since Columbia University, Weil has received a Fulbright grant, a Writer’s Center Emerging Writer Fellowship, the Dana Award in Portfolio, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. In 2009, he was acknowledged with the Tickner Fellow.
Weil returned to Virginia to write his first book, The New Valley (Grove, 2009), which was New York Times Editors Choice selection, honored with the “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation, and won the 2010 New Writers Award from the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Weil’s short fiction has appeared in Granta, American Short Fiction, Narrative, and Glimmer Train, among other journals; he has written non-fiction for The New York Times, Granta Online, and Poets & Writers.
Weil is slated to read at Gemini Ink on Friday, Feb. 26 at 6:30pm and will also conduct the class, Uncharted Territory: Exploring Novellas on Saturday, Feb. 27. In the class, participants will learn what is a novella and, what can it accomplish that’s different from what a short story or novel can accomplish.
Gemini Ink intern Angelia Potter interviews Weil about his writing process and what’s inspired him.
Gemini Ink profiles Writers in Communities faculty member Jacinto Jesús Cardona, a 33-year veteran of the Texas public school system who has won many awards for teaching creative writing, including the Imagineer Award and the Trinity Prize for Teaching Excellence. In addition to publishing poetry in various journals and anthologies, Cardona is the author of Pan Dulce (Chili Verde Press, 1998), a book of poems. He has also been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities visiting scholar grants to Harvard University, Boston University, and the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Gemini Ink Communications director Jennifer Herrera caught Cardona in a “zany” mood while discussing his book of poetry and his writing process.
Edna Campos-Gravenhorst has authored six books, three of which pertain to historical research: Historical H
ome Research in the City of St. Louis (self-published, 2003), Benton Park West (Arcadia Publishing, 2005), and Southwest Garden (Arcadia Publishing, 2008). Edna was born in Freer, TX and now resides in San Antonio after living 13 years in the Midwest. She became interested in historical research while looking to buy a historic house in St. Louis with her husband Ted, realizing that realtors and home owners could only tell them that the house had been built a century ago. Edna has now researched 300 historic structures in St. Louis.
Edna will conduct a class on Historical Home Research in Nonfiction Writing that will take place on two consecutive Saturdays, Jan. 30 and Feb 6. In the class, participants will learn, where to go, what to look for and how to use research to write nonfiction books and articles. Then, participants will learn where and how to submit articles for publication.
Gemini Ink University Without Walls director Leslie Plant and intern Angelia Potter spoke with Edna Campos-Gravenhorst about her upcoming class.
Community leader and ritualist, Laurie Dietrich will enlighten students about the secret of speaking to the subconscious during her upcoming workshop. She’s slated to conduct the two-day workshop on Nov. 14 and Nov. 21, Dietrich will discuss the dual voice technique rooted in hypnotherapy and the psychology of brain function used in ritual and performance. Dietrich spends most of her time working as a practicing ritualist at Diana’s Grove, a community/ sanctuary/ retreat center in Missouri. The center stands by its precedence that self-discovery and self-creation is a spiritual process by promoting self-awareness through sacred rituals.
Gemini Ink intern Nicole Harbaugh talked with Laurie Dietrich about her upcoming class.
