BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Gemini Ink - ECPv6.3.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Gemini Ink
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://geminiink.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Gemini Ink
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Mexico_City
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20230402T080000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20231029T070000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230922
DTSTAMP:20260619T044439
CREATED:20230907T212751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230914T181415Z
UID:9178-1695168000-1695340799@geminiink.org
SUMMARY:The Big Give 2023
DESCRIPTION:Big Give 2023 will return for our 10th anniversary of fundraising success on Wednesday\, September 20 at 6 PM thru Thursday\, September 21\, at 6 PM.\nDonate\n\n\n\nThis year\, all donations from The Big Give are in support of the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund! Gemini Ink established the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund for emerging writers in honor of esteemed journalist Cary Clack\, a beloved member of the Gemini Ink board. Cary Clack was born and raised in San Antonio. Cary Clack is a journalist and editorial board member with the San Antonio Express-News where he was the first Black metro desk journalist. He has covered local and national news\, events\, and social issues for three decades. He is the author of Clowns and Rats Scare Me and More Finish Lines to Cross. In 2017\, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. \n$5\,000 in scholarships will help 40 San Antonians bring their stories to life by allowing them to take our Public Writing Classes for free\, and with your support\, we can make this happen! Plus\, incredible news: This year\, we have a $2\,500 match from Nancy T. Shivers\, doubling the impact of your donations. Help us reach our $5\,000 goal and support the Gemini Ink Cary Clack Scholarship Fund\, enabling emerging writers in our city to bring their stories to life. \nGemini Ink’s mission is to teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life. As San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center\, we provide a supportive home for readers and writers of all levels through our online and in-person workshops and literary community. We believe everyone has a story and writing that story is powerful. Our strategic vision is to teach 12\,000 people how to bring their stories to life by 2024. \nAnyone can apply to the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund. Learn more about our scholarships at https://geminiink.org/scholarships. \n\n\n\n\n\nMatches\n\n\n\n\n\nNancy T. Shivers\n\nThis year\, Gemini Ink has the opportunity to make our Big Give donations go twice as far with $2\,500 match from Nancy T. Shivers in support of the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-give/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://geminiink.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Copy-of-Big-Give-IG-23-copy-e1694715139488.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230920T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230920T203000
DTSTAMP:20260619T044439
CREATED:20230907T155444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T220121Z
UID:9133-1695236400-1695241800@geminiink.org
SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Thomas H. McNeely
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nRSVP to join us for our Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink \nWednesday\, September 20th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Thomas H. McNeely’s story collection\, Pictures of the Shark. Stephanie Reents is the moderator.\n\n\n\n2023 Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction\n2023 Houston Chronicle Notable Book\n2023 Massachusetts Book Award Must-Read\n\n\n\n\n\n“An emotionally taut and often haunting collection.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“[An] always compelling novel in short stories.”\n—Foreword Reviews \n“[A] powerful family portrait … heartbreaking authenticity.”\n—Booklist \n“A tightly written and often emotionally gripping collection.”\n—Lone Star Literary Life \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sudden snowfall in Houston reveals family secrets. A trip to Universal Studios to snap a picture of the shark from Jaws becomes a battle of wills between father and son. A midnight séance and the ghost of Janis Joplin conjure the mysteries of sex. A young boy’s pilgrimage to see Elvis Presley becomes a moment of transformation. A young woman discovers the responsibilities of talent and freedom. \n\nPictures of the Shark\, by award-winning Houston writer Thomas H. McNeely\, moves from its protagonist Buddy Turner’s surreal world of childhood into the wider arenas of sex\, addiction\, art\, and ambition. Appearing in the country’s finest literary journals\, including Ploughshares\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, Epoch\, and Crazyhorse\, shortlisted for the O. Henry Award\, Best American Short Stories\, and Pushcart Prize collections\, the stories in Pictures of the Shark are gems that refract their characters’ complex relationships.\n\n\nAn East Side Houston native\, THOMAS H. McNEELY has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic\, Texas Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and many other magazines and anthologies\, including Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books’ Best of the South. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award anthologies. He has received National Endowment for the Arts\, Wallace Stegner\, and MacDowell Colony fellowships for his fiction. His first book\, Ghost Horse\, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College\, Boston. \n\nStephanie Reents received a BA from Amherst College\, a second BA from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and an MFA from University of Arizona. She is the author of The Kissing List\, a collection of connected stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review\, and I Meant to Kill Ye\, a bibliomemoir that is an account of her journey into the strange voice at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. She has twice been awarded an O. Henry prize for her short fiction. Her novel I Loved to Run is under contract at Penguin Random House.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-thomas-h-mcneely/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Event
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://geminiink.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Thomas-McNeely.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR