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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

Online

Unplug 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.

Free

in Just-spring: A Literary Open House

Online via Zoom

Zoom 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.

Free

Literary Chat Box TX Fundraiser

Online via Zoom

We'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

Online

This 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. 

Free

The Big Texas Read featuring Heather Harper Ellett

Online via Zoom

Unplug 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

Free

Writing Towards the Future: A Discussion and Reading by Award-winning poets Patricia Spears Jones, Megan Peak, and Laura Van Prooyen

Online via Zoom

Join 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!

Free

Navigating Craft and the Writing Life in 2021 with Reginald Gibbons, Urayoán Noel and Jasminne Mendez

Online via Zoom

Join this line-up of groundbreaking authors to hear from their recent work and enjoy a conversation on how they are navigating questions of identity, voice, form, and more, while making sure their stories flourish and have a place at the literary table in these complex, fraught times. How do their craft decisions infuse how they are creating their voices on the page? How are they initiating important conversations, asking pivotal questions, and renegotiating what kinds of stories can be heard? An audience Q&A will be a part of this event. Kick-off your weekend with this rich literary exchange and conversation.

Free

The Big Texas Read featuring Jenny Browne

Online via Zoom

We're reading and discussing poet Jenny Browne's Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems, Vol 17, from the TCU Poet Laureate Series. This conversation will be moderated by Dallas-based poet Dr. Mag Gabbert.

Free

The Big Texas Read featuring Rebekah Manley

Online via Zoom

UP NEXT: We're reading and discussing Rebekah Manley's Alexandra and the Awful, Awkward, No Fun, Truly BadDates: Picture Book Parody for Adults. This conversation will be moderated by Amy Gentry, author of the feminist thrillers Good as Gone, Last Woman Standing, and Bad Habits.

Free

Creative Journeys: A Book Launch for jo reyes-boitel’s chapbook mouth and Group Poetry Reading with C.L. “Rooster” Martinez, Noël Bella Merriam, and Eric Cruz

Online via Zoom

Join us for a celebration of jo reyes-boitel’s chapbook, mouth, winner of the Neon Hemlock Press 2021 Chapbook Prize and hot off the press! Reyes-boitel will read from her new book along with an uber-talented line-up of San Antonio poets:  C. L. “Rooster” Martinez, Noël Bella Merriam, and Eric Cruz. A Q&A follows—on the creative life, the art of teaching, and the ways each of these poets have balanced both and sustained their artistic practice. A book giveaway of jo’s award-winning chapbook will be a part of the night!

Free