Veteran’s Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
The Veteran’s Writing Collective encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants...
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The Big Texas Read
JOIN us at The Big Texas Read. We’ll be reading ONE work of prose or poetry written by a Texas author every 1-2 months from now until the bug is squashed! We’ll be with you from page one to “THE END” with our Zoom author chats and Q&A’s, scheduled every two weeks. Think of it as a big virtual book club, only you get to stay home, mix a cocktail, eat a big piece of chocolate cake, and snuggle up on the sofa.
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Nights of Noir – Jim Thompson’s The Getaway
Online via ZoomWelcome to the world of Noir, where the streets are dark with something more than night. Join us for a literary joyride through Texas and the West, down Park Avenue, and into the frigid Nordic landscape, a journey where the desperate and duplicitous encounter corruption, betrayal, and death - and no one comes out unscathed. Explore four timeless hardboiled classics: Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest, which started it all; Laura, The Getaway, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
$25.00
Holiday Virtual Open Mic: A Celebration of Our Voices
OnlineHang out with featured emcee Edward Vidaurre and a line-up of San Antonio literary talent, including Jenny Browne, Laura Van Prooyen, Jo Reyes-Boitel, Eddie Vega, Amanda Flores and Sheila Black as we cheer the end of 2020 and look with new energy to 2021. We’d also love to hear your work! An open mic follows our featured readers: poetry and prose welcome! Sign up to read one piece (or no more than 3 minutes). We can’t think of anything better to celebrate this year than the creative resilience and rich voices of our community.
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Deadline to Apply to 2021 Gemini Ink Mentorship Program
Back by popular demand, Gemini Ink is relaunching its mentorship program after a 2-year hiatus. We want to see your work in all its machinations and glory! Apply to the Gemini Ink 2020 Mentorship Program and be one of two writers chosen to work one-on-one with a nationally recognized author. The 2021 Mentorship will be dedicated to prose—fiction, nonfiction, essays, short stories, novels and more! We are delighted to announce that our mentor will be award-winning author and seasoned writing teacher Kurt Caswell.
The Big Texas Read featuring Andrea Vocab Sanderson
OnlineUnplug from the outside world and JOIN us at The Big Texas Read (TBTR) brought to you by Writing Workshops Dallas and Gemini Ink. This month we're reading and discussing Andrea Vocab Sanderson’s brilliant collection She Lives in Music.
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in Just-spring: A Literary Open House
Online via ZoomZoom virtual open house features teaching artists presenting include National Book Award finalist Reginald Gibbons, New York City poet Patricia Spears Jones, award-winning authors Jen Knox, Nan Cuba, Jasmine Mendez, Sarah Colby, and Gemini Ink board president Charles Massiatte. Our evening will culminate in a reading and Q&A with Chicana postmodernist writer and critic Norma Cantú.
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Literary Chat Box TX Fundraiser
Online via ZoomWe're thrilled to be a part of the Literary Chat Box TX Fundraiser edition with eight other literary organizations!: American Short Fiction, Arte Público Press, Austin Bat Cave, Deep Vellum, Inprint, Odessa Arts, The Writer's Garret, and the Writers' League of Texas. All proceeds are going to mutual aid groups in Texas helping people affected by last month's weather craziness.
$10
Techniques to Write like Never Before in an Overwhelming World
OnlineThis talk will cover the necessity of writing personally and communally. We will discuss meditative techniques to help us break creative blocks that come from overwhelm in order to find deeper emotional resonance in our writing.
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The Big Texas Read featuring Heather Harper Ellett
Online via ZoomUnplug from the outside world and join us at The Big Texas Read (TBTR) brought to you by Writing Workshops Dallas and Gemini Ink. This month we're reading and discussing Heather Harper Ellett's Ain't Nobody Nobody
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Autograph Series featuring New York Times Bestselling Author Ben Fountain
Autograph Series featuring New York Times Bestselling Author Ben Fountain.
Writing Towards the Future: A Discussion and Reading by Award-winning poets Patricia Spears Jones, Megan Peak, and Laura Van Prooyen
Online via ZoomJoin three lyrically gutsy poets, each at the top of their craft, as they discuss their current work and how it is taking on the future, poem by poem—that ethereal yet continuous possibility in our lives. What questions is their poetry asking that interrogate new ways of looking at ourselves, our American culture, and society? What current hopes, despair, and losses do their poems account for and how is this transforming their vision of who we want to be in the future and how our culture will reflect this? Can praise be protest? Can new myths and images of ourselves be created? Join us for this author reading and talk to find out!
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