Our workshops bring together writers of all backgrounds to create, revise, and share work in a space that celebrates every voice.
We believe that creative writing can play a vital role in personal development. Our writing classes are open to everyone. We provide a warm, supportive writing community for writers of all levels. Gemini Ink offers excellent, fair-cost workshops by published writers year-round.
Gemini Ink is an approved TEA provider for CPE (Continuing Professional Education). Educators seeking recertification can attend our classes and earn a certain number of credits for partaking in the workshop.
Thursday(s), November 13 & 20, 6:30–8pm CT, online via Zoom
Literary Masters Lecture Series
Writing in the Land with Emmy Pérez
Have you been seeking a more intentional connection to nature? Writing about the land is an intimate way to slow down and reconnect to earth with purpose. In this two-part lecture, led by 2020 Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez, we will discuss poems, songs, and prose that center the land and our connections to places and the environment.
Saturday, December 13, 10am–1pm CT, online via Zoom
Poetry as Praise with Amanda Johnston
In this one-day workshop led by Texas Poet Laureate Emeritus Amanda Johnston, participants will explore poetic forms of praise, learn how to identify and celebrate the awe-inspiring everyday moments of life, and craft new works that can be given as gifts to loved ones.
Tuesday(s), February 3, 10, 17 & 24, 6:30-8:30pm CT, Hybrid
Tapping into Your Senses: A Memoir Workshop with Denise Tolan
Learn to transform your personal experiences into an immersive, resonant journey by tapping into your senses! This four-week hybrid course will help you unlock the power of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell to bring your memoir to life
Monday(s), February 16 & 23, 6:30-8pm CT, online via Zoom
Literary Masters Lecture Series
Creating an Immersive Setting and Atmosphere with Andrew Porter
In this two-part intensive lecture, award-winning fiction author Andrew Porter will share practical techniques for building immersive settings and atmospheres, explore their vital role in fiction and nonfiction, and offer craft tools participants can practice on their own after the lecture.
Saturday, March 14, 10am-1pm CT, Hybrid
Publishing Made Possible: How to Get Your Work into Literary Magazines & Presses with Diamond Braxton
In this one-day workshop, we will guide writers of all levels through the ins and outs of getting published. We’ll cover how to identify the right journals and presses for your work. Then, we’ll walk you through essential submission materials such as artist statements, query letters, and writer bios.
Monday(s), March 23 & 30, 6:30-8pm CT, via Zoom
Literary Masters Lecture Series
Turning Text into Graphic Literature with Octavio Quintanilla
In this two-part lecture, led by 2025 Texas Poet Octavio Quintanilla, we will explore how writers can use new and existing work to create graphic literature—a form that merges text with visual storytelling to evoke powerful, multidimensional pieces.
Saturday, March 28, 10am-2pm CT, in-person at Gemini Ink
Climb Inside Other Minds: Exploring Persona Poetry with Leticia Urieta
In this one-day generative workshop, participants will learn about persona, call-and-response dialogue, epistolary techniques, and how to apply these to our own writing. We’ll then create our own narrative poems that shift perspective, get into someone else’s head, and/or engage with ancestors, historical figures, etc.
Thursday(s) April 2, 9, 16 & 23 6:30-8:30pm CT, via Zoom
Telling a Story of Your Life: A Personal Essay Workshop with Kendra Allen
In this four-week course, we’ll demystify the personal narrative process by figuring out the difference between a snapshot and a story. First-time writers may assume they have to include their entire lives in one piece, which can make getting started on a personal essay confusing and overwhelming.
Monday(s), April 6, 13, 20 & 27, 6:30pm – 8:30pm CT online via Zoom
In Short Order: Finding Form in Flash Fiction with Kathryn Kulpa
This four-session workshop will introduce you to a range of flash fiction forms–from the shortest pieces, such as 50-word dribbles and 100-word drabbles, to microfiction (400 words or fewer), flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), and short-short stories (under 2,000 words). We’ll learn how to apply poetic techniques like anaphora, metaphor, lists, and short sections to create vivid, memorable stories that prove less is more.
Tuesday(s), April 28 & May 5, 12, 19, 26, 6:30-8:30pm CT, via Zoom
Poetry’s Cinematic Propositions with Elena Karina Byrne
Over five-weeks, we will explore the intersections between cinema and poetry, and imagine the poet as director, cinematographer, actor, screenwriter, stage designer, documentarian, and editor–all at once. Through an eclectic mix of poems, essays, and screenplay excerpts, we’ll uncover how poetry and film share the key elements of discovery, the transformative tools of language and image, and the uniting of the speaker’s inner and outer worlds.
Saturday, May 2, 10am-1pm CT via Zoom
Launch Your Substack with Jennifer Nguyen
If you are looking to develop a marketing strategy for your long-term writing goals, this class is for you. Participants will reflect on where they are as writers, where they want to go, and how they want to use a Substack to get there.
Attention parents, guardians, and mentors! If you know a teen (ages 13-19) who loves writing or wants to try it out, please share this opportunity with them. The Teen Writing Circle (TWC) meets on the last Saturday of every month. Teens can explore different writing styles, share their work (optional), and have fun! Learn more.
Thank you to the H. E. Butt Foundation and Impact San Antonio for their generous support of this program!
Enjoy these free online mini-lessons from some of our Partner Classes faculty!:
Parking at Gemini Ink
Gemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full, do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
For our multi-session workshops, we’ve partnered with Wet Ink, the only online platform designed exclusively for writing workshops to bring top-notch creative writing workshops to you. Led by published, professional writers, our classes are intentionally small so that each writer can get the time and attention their work deserves.
Our classes meet in a dedicated online classroom where you can interact with your classmates and instructor. Craft materials, lectures, reading assignments, and writing prompts are all available through the online classroom. Students also post their work, and provide and receive feedback within the Wetink platform.
What you get:
Wetink and Zoom meeting links will be sent via email to all registered participants 30 minutes prior to the start of the first class. If you don’t see it in your Inbox, please check your Spam folder.
For detailed instructions on how to use Zoom, see Zoom video tutorials here.
