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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: The Awakening
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read The Awakening by Kate Chopin.\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n“The great power of The Awakening resides not in the answers it provides\, but in the questions it exposes.”  —Washington Post \n“Kate Chopin . . . smoked and went hatless and played cards into the small hours; she wrote stories about venereal disease\, adultery\, divorce and the ‘monstrous joy’ of widowhood . . . scandalous in her own age; held up as a heroine by feminists of the Seventies.”  —Observer\nFirst published in 1899\, this beautiful\, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward.\nOn vacation in Grand Isle\, Louisiana\, a married woman falls in love with a charming\, attentive young man. The relationship spurs Edna Pontellier to explore her longing for independence and creative fulfillment. It also compels her to defy conventions\, rejecting the constraints of marriage and motherhood. \nFirst published in 1899\, this beautiful\, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired\, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of women’s emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman’s abandonment of her family\, her seduction\, and her awakening to desires and passions that threatened to consumer her. Originally entitled A Solitary Soul\, this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction\, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. \n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in St. Louis\, Kate Chopin (1850-1904) moved to Louisiana to marry the son of a cotton grower. A mother of six by the age of twenty-eight and a widow at thirty-two\, she turned to writing to support her young family. She is best known today for The Awakening (1899)\, a portrait of marriage and motherhood so controversial it fell out of print shortly after publication and was not rediscovered until the 1960s. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-the-awakening/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Veterans' Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veterans’ 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-10-21/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: The Death of Ivan Ilych & Spare Room
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we discuss The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy and Spare Room by Helen Garner.\n \n\n  \nNovember’s LitMinds selections pair two remarkable works that explore illness\, mortality\, and the relationships that shape our lives—one a timeless classic\, the other a modern literary masterpiece. \nThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy\nA masterpiece of world literature\, The Death of Ivan Ilych follows a respected judge who\, faced with a terminal illness\, is forced to confront the life he has built—and the life he may have missed. At once unsettling and deeply compassionate\, Tolstoy’s novella explores mortality\, meaning\, and the search for authenticity with remarkable clarity. More than a century after its publication\, it remains one of the most profound reflections on what it means to truly live. \nLeo Tolstoy (1828–1910) is one of the world’s most celebrated novelists\, best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His works continue to shape conversations about literature\, philosophy\, and the human condition. \n\nSpare Room by Helen Garner\nIn Spare Room\, acclaimed Australian writer Helen Garner tells the story of two longtime friends brought together under difficult circumstances when one arrives seeking alternative cancer treatment. What begins as an act of generosity becomes a powerful exploration of friendship\, caregiving\, hope\, and the emotional complexities of loving someone through illness. Written with honesty and emotional precision\, Spare Room is both intimate and unforgettable. \nHelen Garner is one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary writers\, known for her novels\, essays\, and nonfiction. Her work is celebrated for its psychological insight\, moral complexity\, and beautifully restrained prose. \n\n\nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-book-club-tolstoy-garner/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Veterans' Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veterans’ 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-11-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Veterans' Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veterans’ 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-12-16/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Natalia Treviño
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 19\, 2026\, via Zoom for a conversation with Natalia Treviño\, to discuss her new poetry collection\, When You Were Human (Flowersong Press).\n\n\n(Virtual Readings Quarterly @ 7pm CST) \n\n\nRSVP \nThis collection of poetry offers readers multiple entry points to discover the Virgin Mary— as the miraculous mother of God and as the archetypal spiritual mother of all. By examining how Mary is introduced to us through prayer candles\, car air-fresheners\, ritual prayer\, legend\, and high art\, this collection attempts to understand the devotions to Mary that unite people all over the world\, especially in Mexico. Mary has over twenty-two thousand identities world-wide\, but this collection only scratches the surface of those stories focusing on her as the unifying Virgin of Guadalupe\, La Virgen de San Juan de Los Lagos\, and La Virgen de San Juan del Valle\, and these poems meditate on her role as the compassionate\, redeeming Mother of God. In a variety of traditions\, she is united with nature—as the Goddess of Water\, Yemaya\, as Creator Goddess Coatlicue\, as Tonantzin\, as friend\, companion\, as intercessor\, and as the spirit of a fellow human being who has experienced the deepest human suffering\, the loss of her criminalized child to the violence of the state. The poems are political\, reverent\, fresh and varied in style. The collection includes an epilogue in Spanish by Levi Romero and translated by poet Julieta Corpus. The epilogue is a soulful response to the last section of the book\, “Bitter Sorrows\,” which is an adaptation of the Seven Sorrows of Mary prayercycle\, in which Mary’s life story becomes lyric\, prayer\, gift and mystery. \n\nAbout the Author\nBorn in Mexico\, Natalia Treviño graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with both her BA and MA in English. She completed her MFA in creative writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Treviño is the author of the chapbook VirginX (Finishing Line Press\, 2018) and the poetry collections When You Were Human (FlowerSong Press\, 2026) and Lavando La Dirty Laundry (Mongrel Empire Press\, 2014).  Treviño is the recipient of several awards\, including the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award\, the Wendy Barker Creative Writing Award\, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize\, the Menada Literary Award from Macedonia\, and the San Antonio Artist Foundation Literary Prize. She is also the winner\, with Octavio Quintanilla\, of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize for co-translating his book Las Horas Imposibles | The Impossible Hours (University of Arizona Press\, 2025).
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-natalia-trevino/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: The God of Small Things
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nJoin us as we read The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n“[The God of Small Things] offers such magic\, mystery\, and sadness that\, literally\, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. It’s that haunting.”—USA Today \n“The quality of Ms. Roy’s narration is so extraordinary—at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple—that the reader remains enthralled all the way through.”—The New York Times Book Review \n“A novel of real ambition must invent its own language\, and this one does.”—John Updike\, The New Yorker \nCompared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens\, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide.\n\nEqual parts powerful family saga\, forbidden love story\, and piercing political drama\, The God of Small Things is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin\, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional\, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated. \n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things\, which won the Booker Prize and has been translated into more than forty languages. She also has published several books of nonfiction including The End of Imagination\, Capitalism: A Ghost Story and The Doctor and the Saint. She lives in New Delhi. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-book-club-the-god-of-small-things/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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