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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2025-12-17/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Cyra Sweet Dimitru
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, December 17th\, 2025\, via Zoom for a conversation with Cyra Sweet Dimitru\, to discuss her new book\, Words Make a Way Through Fire: Healing After My Brother’s Suicide (Simon & Schuster).\n\n\n\n\n(Virtual Readings Quarterly @ 7pm CST) \n\n\nRSVP \nWords Make a Way through Fire is an intimate\, courageous memoir of a woman shattered by witnessing her eldest brother’s horrific suicide when she was a teenager. The book traces her creative journey of recovery and healing with poetry as a constant companion. \nThe primary means of Cyra Dumitru’s healing process\, from age sixteen through adulthood\, is writing poetry and journaling. During this decades-long journey\, Cyra experiences a transcendent\, loving presence called Voice who guides her and helps her imagine wholeness. She finds community with others through the sharing of poems. She studies poetry as craft and as medicine—becoming a published poet with multiple books\, an award-winning college instructor of poetry writing\, and a certified practitioner of poetic medicine who creates spaces where others can heal through poetry. \nIn Words Make a Way through Fire\, Cyra explores the specific medicinal properties of poetry—giving order to interior anxiety\, trusting the wisdom within—and invites her brother David to speak through her as he reflects upon his final hours. In doing so\, poem by poem\, she shifts gradually from being traumatized and feeling haunted to feeling empowered and spiritually expansive. \n\nAbout the Author\nCyra Sweet Dumitru is a published poet and instructor of poetry\, and one of four certified practitioners of poetic medicine in Texas. Her poems have appeared on the walls of City Hall\, been spoken on national public radio and in museums\, and appeared in city newspapers and national literary journals. Her collections of poems include What the Body Knows\, Listening to Light\, Remains\, and Elder Moon. She offers therapeutic writing circles for adults learning to live with trauma\, bereavement\, depression\, anxiety\, and religious trauma. Cyra lives in San Antonio\, Texas with her family. \n\nAbout the Moderator\nNatalia Treviño‘s fiction appears in Mirrors Beneath the Earth (Curbstone Press)\, The Platte Valley Review\, and her non-fiction appears in Wising Up Anthologies\, Complex Allegiances and Shifting Balance Sheets: Women’s Stories of Naturalized Citizens. Her first book of poetry\, Lavando La Dirty Laundry\, is available from Mongrel Empire Press and most online bookstores. A member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop\, Natalia has been working to increase young adult literacy since 1992 in her teaching career and through programs sponsored by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center\, Gemini Ink\, and the Bexar County Juvenile Detention Center.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-cyra-sweet-dimitru/
LOCATION:Texas
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