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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk Featuring Deb Olin Unferth
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 19\, 2026\, via Zoom for a conversation with Deb Olin Unferth\, to discuss her new book\, Earth 7: A Novel (Graywolf Press).\n\n\n(Virtual Readings Quarterly @ 7pm CST) \n\n\nRSVP \nDeb Olin Unferth’s latest novel\, Earth 7\, is a bold and imaginative work of climate fiction that explores love\, survival\, and what remains of humanity on a nearly uninhabitable planet. As Earth sits on the brink\, two unlikely figures—a woman raised in an ocean pod and another who may be a robot—form a connection in a world where some have fled to Mars and others seek digital immortality. At once poetic\, strange\, and deeply human\, Earth 7 moves from the vast edges of the cosmos to the microscopic\, asking urgent questions about consciousness\, technology\, and what it means to endure. \n\nAbout the Author\nDeb Olin Unferth is the author of seven books\, including Barn 8 and Wait Till You See Me Dance. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and four Pushcart Prizes\, and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her work has appeared in Harper’s\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, and McSweeney’s.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-featuring-deb-olin-unferth/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-08-19/
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SUMMARY:Open Writers’ Lab Reading & Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink as we celebrate the literary artistry of our Open Writers’ Lab members with a community reading and open mic.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-reading/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: Art Above Everything
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read Art Above Everything by Stephanie Elizondo Griest.\n \n\n\n\n  \n\nA new kind of travel writing.\n— Booklist\n…a potent testament to the value of pursuing one’s passion.\n— Publishers Weekly\nA global exploration of what it means to choose a creative life.\nAll artists struggle. But women are especially pushed to give up their creative ambitions\, from societal disapproval against “selfishness” to the pressure (or desire) for children and economic stability. Throughout her 20s and 30s\, Stephanie Elizondo Griest wondered if constantly prioritizing her writing over everything else was leading her to fulfillment or regret. After a brutal break-up and narrowly surviving a health crisis in her early 40s\, she turned to other women for their perspectives on that haunting question: is art enough? \nArt Above Everything documents her travels to 10 nations—from Cuba to Iceland; Rwanda to Qatar—where she meets with legendary painters\, poets\, actors\, dancers\, and musicians who talk intimately about their art\, both what it gifts them and what it costs them. Collectively\, these artists speak dozens of languages and worship a spectrum of faiths\, but their compulsions to create despite financial hardship\, misogyny\, sexual violence\, and family ostracization are wholly akin. Bold and inspiring\, Art Above Everything illuminates the ways we can wield creativity as a vitalizing force. \n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting author from the Texas/Mexico borderlands and the author of six books\, including Around the Bloc\, Mexican Enough\, All the Agents and Saints\, and Art Above Everything. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, VQR\, The Believer\, BBC\, Orion\, Lit Hub\, and Oxford American\, and has earned a Margolis Award\, a PEN Southwest Book Award\, an International Latino Book Award\, and two Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism prizes. \nShe is currently Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She has traveled to 50 countries and 49 states\, is a cancer survivor now in remission\, and recently endowed Testimonios Fronterizos\, a research grant for borderlands student journalists at the University of Texas at Austin. \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-art-above-everything/
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 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-09-16/
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-10-21/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-11-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-12-16/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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