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SUMMARY:Veteran’s 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16/2023-08-16/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Rubén Degollado
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for the Zoom link.\n  \n\nWednesday\, August 16th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Novelist Rubén Degollado’s The Family Izquierdo (W.W. Norton\, 2022). Moderated by Marcela Fuentes.\n\n  \n\nAbout The Family Izquierdo\nA Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2022\nLonglisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award\nA masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love\, and a curse.\n\nThe tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo’s marriage is falling apart; daughter Dina\, beleaguered by the fear that her nightmares are real\, is a shut-in. When Gonzalo digs up a strange object in the backyard of the family home\, the Izquierdos take it as proof that a jealous neighbor has cursed them—could this be the reason for all their troubles? As the Izquierdos face a distressing present and an uncertain future\, they are sustained by the blood that binds them\, a divine presence\, and an abiding love for one another. Told in a series of soulful voices brimming with warmth and humor\, The Family Izquierdo is a tender narrative of a family at a turning point. \nRubén Degollado is an educator from Texas and the author of The Family Izquierdo: A Novel and the young adult novel Throw. His fiction has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal\, Gulf Coast\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, and Image.\nVisit www.rubendegollado.com \nMarcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review\, The Rumpus\, Texas Highways Magazine\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Texas Christian University. She was born and raised in Del Rio\, Texas. \nHer debut novel MALAS (June 2024) and linked story collection MY HEART HAS MORE ROOMS THAN A WHOREHOUSE (Summer\, 2025) are forthcoming from Viking Books.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-ruben-degollado/
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SUMMARY:"A Night of Celebration" with ire'ne lara silva as 2023 Texas Poet Laureate
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, August 24th\, for a festive evening celebrating ire’ne lara silva as our new 2023 Texas Poet Laureate. \n  \nire’ne will be reading from her works\, and she will be joined by South Texas writers Octavio Quintanilla\, former San Antonio Poet Laureate and publisher of Alabrava press; Jen Yanez-Alaniz with her debut book of poems Surrogate Eater (Alabrava Press\, 2023); and Gume Laurel\, a Rio Grande Valley poet and YA author. \nCome to Gemini Ink to meet and congratulate our new state Poet Laureate. Hear power-packed poetry and enjoy the literary company of other readers and writers while sipping cool summer  refreshments. Stay for the informal Q&A with ire’ne. \n\nBIO’s: \nire’ne lara silva\, the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate\, is the author of four poetry collections\, furia\, Blood Sugar Canto\, CUICACALLI/House of Song\, and FirstPoems; two chapbooks\, Enduring Azucares and Hibiscus Tacos; and a short story collection\, flesh to bone\, which won the Premio Aztlán. ire’ne is the recipient of a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant\, a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant\, the final Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award\, and was the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award. Most recently\, ire’ne was awarded the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction. ire’ne is currently a Writer at Large for Texas Highways Magazine and is working on a second collection of short stories titled\, the light of your body. A new poetry collection\, the eaters of flowers\, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press in January 2024. \nJen Yáñez-Alaniz is a Chicana Mestiza activist\, educator\, poet\, and PhD Fellow in Culture\, Literacy\, and Language at the University of Texas\, San Antonio. Her poetry can be read in various journals and anthologies. She is the author of an extensive critical biography of Carmen Tafolla published in the forthcoming anthology Chicana Portraits. Her debut poetry chapbook\, Surrogate Eater\, was published by Alabrava Press in 2023.  \nOctavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collection\, If I Go Missing\, the founder and director of the literature & arts festival\, VersoFrontera\, publisher of Alabrava Press\, and former 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. His new poetry collection\, The Book of Wounded Sparrows\, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in fall 2024. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. \nGume Laurel is a Texan\, native to the Rio Grande Valley on the southernmost border. For the past decade\, he has dedicated himself to crafting literary works that promote inclusion and showcase diverse characters with intersectional identities. The bulk of Gume’s writings are focused on underrepresented groups\, especially those from the communities he is a part of: Latine and queer. His writings include poetry and young adult fiction of various genres. When he isn’t writing\, Gume can be found getting lost on a hiking trail with his dogs Blu and Mouse. 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/elebration-with-irene-lara-silva-as-2023-texas-poet-laureate/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Big Give 2023
DESCRIPTION:Big Give 2023 will return for our 10th anniversary of fundraising success on Wednesday\, September 20 at 6 PM thru Thursday\, September 21\, at 6 PM.\nDonate\n\n\n\nThis year\, all donations from The Big Give are in support of the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund! Gemini Ink established the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund for emerging writers in honor of esteemed journalist Cary Clack\, a beloved member of the Gemini Ink board. Cary Clack was born and raised in San Antonio. Cary Clack is a journalist and editorial board member with the San Antonio Express-News where he was the first Black metro desk journalist. He has covered local and national news\, events\, and social issues for three decades. He is the author of Clowns and Rats Scare Me and More Finish Lines to Cross. In 2017\, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. \n$5\,000 in scholarships will help 40 San Antonians bring their stories to life by allowing them to take our Public Writing Classes for free\, and with your support\, we can make this happen! Plus\, incredible news: This year\, we have a $2\,500 match from Nancy T. Shivers\, doubling the impact of your donations. Help us reach our $5\,000 goal and support the Gemini Ink Cary Clack Scholarship Fund\, enabling emerging writers in our city to bring their stories to life. \nGemini Ink’s mission is to teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life. As San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center\, we provide a supportive home for readers and writers of all levels through our online and in-person workshops and literary community. We believe everyone has a story and writing that story is powerful. Our strategic vision is to teach 12\,000 people how to bring their stories to life by 2024. \nAnyone can apply to the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund. Learn more about our scholarships at https://geminiink.org/scholarships. \n\n\n\n\n\nMatches\n\n\n\n\n\nNancy T. Shivers\n\nThis year\, Gemini Ink has the opportunity to make our Big Give donations go twice as far with $2\,500 match from Nancy T. Shivers in support of the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund.
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Thomas H. McNeely
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nRSVP to join us for our Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink \nWednesday\, September 20th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Thomas H. McNeely’s story collection\, Pictures of the Shark. Stephanie Reents is the moderator.\n\n\n\n2023 Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction\n2023 Houston Chronicle Notable Book\n2023 Massachusetts Book Award Must-Read\n\n\n\n\n\n“An emotionally taut and often haunting collection.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“[An] always compelling novel in short stories.”\n—Foreword Reviews \n“[A] powerful family portrait … heartbreaking authenticity.”\n—Booklist \n“A tightly written and often emotionally gripping collection.”\n—Lone Star Literary Life \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sudden snowfall in Houston reveals family secrets. A trip to Universal Studios to snap a picture of the shark from Jaws becomes a battle of wills between father and son. A midnight séance and the ghost of Janis Joplin conjure the mysteries of sex. A young boy’s pilgrimage to see Elvis Presley becomes a moment of transformation. A young woman discovers the responsibilities of talent and freedom. \n\nPictures of the Shark\, by award-winning Houston writer Thomas H. McNeely\, moves from its protagonist Buddy Turner’s surreal world of childhood into the wider arenas of sex\, addiction\, art\, and ambition. Appearing in the country’s finest literary journals\, including Ploughshares\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, Epoch\, and Crazyhorse\, shortlisted for the O. Henry Award\, Best American Short Stories\, and Pushcart Prize collections\, the stories in Pictures of the Shark are gems that refract their characters’ complex relationships.\n\n\nAn East Side Houston native\, THOMAS H. McNEELY has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic\, Texas Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and many other magazines and anthologies\, including Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books’ Best of the South. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award anthologies. He has received National Endowment for the Arts\, Wallace Stegner\, and MacDowell Colony fellowships for his fiction. His first book\, Ghost Horse\, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College\, Boston. \n\nStephanie Reents received a BA from Amherst College\, a second BA from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and an MFA from University of Arizona. She is the author of The Kissing List\, a collection of connected stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review\, and I Meant to Kill Ye\, a bibliomemoir that is an account of her journey into the strange voice at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. She has twice been awarded an O. Henry prize for her short fiction. Her novel I Loved to Run is under contract at Penguin Random House.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-thomas-h-mcneely/
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SUMMARY:Luminescence and Grit: An Evening with Gemini Ink Teaching Artists\, followed by a Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, September 21st\, for a night of poetry\, prose\, and performance as we celebrate the personal artistry of our Gemini Ink Partner Class teaching artists. Every day these instructors bring their passion for the writing arts to community spaces and inspire students of all ages. Tonight we hear their stories! \nOur featured writers will include theater artist and playwright Marisela Barrera\, accomplished poet and educator Jim LaVilla-Havelin\, award-winning fiction writer Desiree Kannel\, and local poet and member of the Wyrdd Writers collective Annie Snider. \nFollowing the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 3-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/luminescence-and-grit-reading/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, United States
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SUMMARY:Breaking Through: A Conversation on Pathways to Publication for Latinx Writers
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public \nJoin Gemini Ink on Friday\, October 6th\, to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 with a timely and intimate literary discussion about current publishing trends and Latinx representation in books.\nThis event features Latinx authors and publishers and provides a space to discuss how to break barriers and create pathways toward publication in a literary landscape where Latinx writers account for only 7% of published authors. Our guests will talk about how they navigated the publishing industry and illuminate how Latinx writers can forge a path toward sharing their own stories.   \n\nModerator: \nNorma Elia Cantú recently served as the President of the American Folklore Society (2020-2022) and holds the Murchison Professorship of the Humanities at Trinity University. Her research and creative writing have earned her an international reputation. Her most recent publications include the co-edited anthologies: Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa: Pedagogies and Practices for our Classrooms and Communities and meXicana Fashions: Politics\, Self-Adornment\, and Identity Construction; the novel\, Cabañuelas\, and a poetry collection: Meditacion Fronteriza: Poems of Love\, Life\, and Labor. She has two forthcoming publications\, Fiestas in Laredo: Matachines\, Quinceañeras\, and George Washington’s Birthday Celebration &; The Folklorico Dance Tradition in US Latinx Communities. She is at work on a collection of poems tentatively titled Remedios. \nPanelists: \nCloud Delfina Cardona is a poet and visual artist from San Anto\, Tejas. Cardona is the author of What Remains\, winner of the 2020 Host Publications Chapbook Prize. She is the co-founder of Infrarrealista Review\, a literary nonprofit dedicated to publishing Texan writers. Cardona’s poems can be found in Prairie Schooner\, Los Angeles Review\, The Boiler\, Tinderbox\, and more. \nEddie Vega (the Taco-Poet of Texas) is a poet\, storyteller\, educator\, and Macondista. He is the author of Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press\, 2019) and recipient of the literary arts grant from the Luminaria Artist Foundation (2021). Last summer\, he was named best local poet by the San Antonio Current and won two major head-to-head haiku contests. Most recently\, he’s published a collection of poems written by South Texans entitled\, Asina is How We Talk. Vega hosts The Mouth Dakota Poetry Project\, a biweekly open mic in San Antonio\, TX. \nKatie Gutierrez is the author of the national bestselling\, Edgar Award-nominated debut novel MORE THAN YOU’LL EVER KNOW\, which was also a Good Morning America Book Club selection. She is a National Magazine Award finalist whose essays and features have appeared in TIME\, Texas Highways\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and more\, and acknowledged in Best American Magazine Writing and Best American Essays. She has an MFA from Texas State University and lives in San Antonio\, Texas\, with her husband and their two kids.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/pathways-to-publication-for-latinx-writers/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Katie Gutierrez
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 18th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Katie Gutierrez’s novel\, More Than You’ll Ever Know\, moderated by May Cobb.\nKatie Gutierrez is the author of the national bestselling\, Edgar Award-nominated debut novel More Than You’ll Ever Know\, which was also a Good Morning America Book Club selection. She is a National Magazine Award finalist whose essays and features have appeared in TIME\, Texas Highways\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and more\, and acknowledged in Best American Magazine Writing and Best American Essays. She has an MFA from Texas State University and lives with her husband and two kids in San Antonio\, Texas. \nRSVP\nAbout More Than You’ll Ever Know: \n“Masterful . . . Elegance\, darkness\, even fear are deftly intertwined . . . A wonderful read.” — LUIS ALBERTO URREA\, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels \nRecommended by New York Times Book Review • Los Angeles Times• Washington Post• Parade • Good Housekeeping • NBC News • Today.com • Goodreads • Audible • The Millions • Popsugar • Tribeza • CrimeReads • Library Reads • She Reads • and more! \nThe dance becomes an affair\, which becomes a marriage\, which becomes a murder… \nIn 1985\, Lore Rivera marries Andres Russo in Mexico City\, even though she is already married to Fabian Rivera in Laredo\, Texas\, and they share twin sons. Through her career as an international banker\, Lore splits her time between two countries and two families—until the truth is revealed and one husband is arrested for murdering the other. \nIn 2017\, while trawling the internet for the latest\, most sensational news reports\, struggling true-crime writer Cassie Bowman encounters an article detailing that tragic final act. Cassie is immediately enticed by what is not explored: Why would a woman—a mother—risk everything for a secret double marriage? Cassie sees an opportunity—she’ll track Lore down and capture the full picture\, the choices\, the deceptions that led to disaster. But the more time she spends with Lore\, the more Cassie questions the facts surrounding the murder itself. Soon\, her determination to uncover the truth could threaten to derail Lore’s now quiet life—and expose the many secrets both women are hiding. \nTold through alternating timelines\, More Than You’ll Ever Know is both a gripping mystery and a wrenching family drama. Presenting a window into the hearts of two very different women\, it explores the many conflicting demands of marriage and motherhood\, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing someone—especially those we love.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-with-katie-gutierrez/
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SUMMARY:The Place of Poetry: An Evening on Eco-Writing with Jenny Browne and Camille T. Dungy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE reading at Trinity University!\nOctober 19\, 2023\, 7-8:30pm\nTrinity University\, Margarite B. Parker Chapel\, Free and Open to the Public\nDirections to the Margarite B. Parker Chapel at Trinity \nJoin us on Thursday\, October 19th\, for an evening with Gemini Ink 2023 Recipient of the Award for Literary Excellence Jenny Browne\, and award-winning poet\, essayist\, and editor Camille T. Dungy. These two contemporary poets at the top of their craft will discuss how their place-based writing addresses the increasingly complicated relationships humans have to the environment\, whether manmade or wild.  \nThis discussion will examine the role of the literary arts in addressing an ever-changing environment. How do we use writing to bring attention to our planet’s ecological crisis while exploring the intricate connection between humans and nature? How do we deepen our relationship to the earth and celebrate the wonder of the natural world? Don’t miss an opportunity to spend time with two thought-provoking literary voices!  \nThe evening will include an audience Q&A and a book signing and reception following the author talk. The event takes place in the Margarite B. Parker Chapel at Trinity University. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Trinity University’s Humanities Collective. \n\nCamille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP\, 2017)\, winner of the Colorado Book Award. She is also the author of the essay collections Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster\, 2023) and Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race\, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing\, Rhyme\, Resound\, Syncopate\, Alliterate\, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow\, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018)\, an American Book Award\, two NAACP Image Award nominations\, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy’s poems have been published in Best American Poetry\, The 100 Best African American Poems\, the Pushcart Anthology\, Best American Travel Writing\, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. \nJenny Browne is the author of four collections: Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems (2019)\, Dear Stranger (2014)\, The Second Reason (2007)\, and At Once (2003). She earned her MFA from the James Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin. She served concurrent terms as City of San Antonio Poet Laureate (2016-18) and Poet Laureate of the State of Texas (2018) and in 2020 was Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre\, Queens University\, in Belfast\, Northern Ireland. Other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America. In the introduction to Browne’s New and Selected Poems\, Naomi Shihab Nye praised Browne’s vivid depictions of place and the strangeness of both life and language\, “Her exuberant poems\, rich with definite cadences\, deep curiosities\, and multi-layered textures\, voices\, and personalities\, feel like wake-up calls. As if they say\, Here is this life I find myself in\, which fascinates and confounds me. Have we paid enough attention lately?” Browne teaches at Trinity University in San Antonio.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-place-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Trinity University\, 1 Trinity Pl\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78212
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SUMMARY:Unban the Book with Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 24th\, 6:30-8pm\nHYBRID: in-person at Gemini Ink or online via Zoom\nFree and open to the public \nRegister to Join us for Unban the Book \nJoin Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson\, San Antonio Poet Laureate Emeritus\, as we recognize Banned Books Week (October 1 – 7\, 2023) by gathering and writing open letters to local and state lawmakers about the political attack on books and its impact on our community.  \nWe will come together in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas without fear of book bans. When lawmakers ban books\, such as Art Spiegelman’s Maus\, which tells a Holocaust survivor story\, or Toni Morrison’s Beloved\, which is about a former slave who survived abuse\, we lose access to pivotal stories that speak to our history\, bring to life the realities of marginalized communities\, and challenge us to think critically.  \nParticipants will be provided stationary\, stamped envelopes\, and writing guidance. We will then seal our letters and send them off. Light refreshments will be served. In-person seating is limited\, please register here:  \nRegister to Join us for Unban the Book \n\nAndrea Sanderson\, San Antonio\, TX. Poet Laureate 2020-2023\, performs as “Vocab” in her hometown of San Antonio\, Texas. “Watching her perform\, the word “hero” comes to mind. And not “hero” for the sake of just skill\, but for her work in her community: Sanderson teaches poetry workshops\, mentors\, builds up and encourages artists to pursue their art\, and gives them platforms to showcase their talent. \nSanderson’s interest in other people’s art and artistic development became a passion of hers\, and she started curating her own shows and creating platforms for other artists to hone their craft by hosting open mics.” (From The San Antonio Current\, Jan. 16\, 2018.) \nHer poetry is published in\, The Texas Observer\, January 2016 Issue\, Pariah Anthology SFA Press\, March 2016\, and Sycorax’s Daughters\, Cedar Grove Publishing\, January 2017\, Soundbite Vol. 3\, Anti-Languorous Project\, Spring 2019. Her debut book entitled: She Lives In Music\, published on Flower Song Press\, was released on Valentine’s Day 2020. Her album She Tastes Like Music\, is available on all music streaming platforms. \nShe received awards\, Performer of the Year\, Influencer of the Year\, from Project Forward\, and Dream Voice\, from the Dream Week Commission. Sanderson is the winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award\, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as: Artist Foundation of San Antonio).In May of 2020 she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/unban-the-book-with-vocab/
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Carmen Tafolla
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 15th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Carmen Tafolla’s children’s book\, Warrior Girl. Moderated by Dr. Rita Urquijo-Ruiz.\n\n RSVP\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT WARRIOR GIRL\nAn insightful novel in verse about the joys and struggles of a Chicana girl who is a warrior for her name\, her history\, and her right to choose what she celebrates in life. \nCelina and her family are bilingual and follow both Mexican and American traditions. Celina revels in her Mexican heritage\, but once she starts school\, it feels like the world wants her to erase that part of her identity. Fortunately\, she’s got an army of family and three fabulous new friends behind her to fight the ignorance. But it’s her Gramma who’s her biggest inspiration\, encouraging Celina to build a shield of joy around herself. Because when you’re celebrating\, when you find a reason to sing or dance or paint or play or laugh or write\, they haven’t taken everything away from you. Of course\, it’s not possible to stay in celebration mode when things get dire–like when her dad’s deported and a pandemic hits–but if there is anything Celina’s sure of\, it’s that she’ll always live up to her last name: Guerrera–woman warrior–and that she will use her voice and writing talents to make the world a more beautiful place where all cultures are celebrated. \nABOUT CARMEN TAFOLLA\nCarmen Tafolla is an internationally acclaimed Chicana writer from San Antonio\, Texas\, and a professor emerita of bicultural bilingual studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Tafolla served as the poet laureate of San Antonio from 2012 to 2014\, and was named the Poet Laureate of Texas for 2015–16. Tafolla has written more than 40 books and won multiple literary awards. She is one of the most highly anthologized Chicana authors in the United States\, with her work appearing in more than 300 anthologies. https://www.carmentafolla.net/\n\n\n\nABOUT DR. RITA URQUIJO-RUIZ\n\nDr. Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz is a Mexicana/Chicana queer educator\, author\, and translator who teaches Spanish as well as Queer\, Chicana/o\, and Latinx Studies at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas. She is the translator of Xelena González and Adriana Garcia’s award-winning books: Where Wonders Grow (Donde las maravillas crecen) and Remembering (Te recuerdo). She was absolutely thrilled when Dr. Carmen Tafolla invited her to translate her novel in verse Warrior Girl (Guerrera). Rita’s story about being previously undocumented\, entitled “First Visit\,” was published in the award-winning anthology Somewhere We are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration\, Survival\, and New Beginnings\, coedited by Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca. \n\nThe Big Texas Author Talk is a *free* lecture series devoted to showcasing Texas authors from across our big state. Each month we feature one Texas author in conversation with another—from New York Times bestsellers living in Dallas\, Houston\, and Austin to our rich Texas Latinx border authors living in Laredo and McAllen\, not to mention from other deep pockets and corners of our culturally diverse state.  Our lecture series is as entertaining as it is informative—and like Texas itself\, we offer a vast array of storytellers who represent the spirit of our extremely distinct Lone Star State and continue to keep us on the literary map. In the past\, we’ve featured novelists such as Kathleen Kent\, Marisol Cortez\, Joe Lansdale\, and Antonio Ruiz-Camacho and Texas poet laureates such as Carmen Tafolla\, Laurie Ann Guerrero\, Jenny Brown\, and Emmy Pérez.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-2/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink Holiday Open House
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss Gemini Ink’s annual holiday gathering. Join us at 1111 Navarro as we eat\, drink\, celebrate our collective creative accomplishments\, and merrily toast the closing of 2023 with our literary community of writers and friends.\nWe’ll gather around and listen to a wonderful sampling of stories from our Voices of San Anto bilingual storytelling workshop\, with Eddie Vega and Marisela Barrera. We’re excited to share some amazing videos with you from our Literary Video Lab. Lastly\, we’ll be honoring ??Volunteer of the Year for 2023\, Violeta Garza!?? \nDrop by when you can\, leave when you need to \, but stay long enough for a little eggnog and comfort food. Wine\, non-alcoholic beverages\, and coffee will be served. We will provide the main fare\, but you are also invited to bring a store-bought or prepackaged food item to share. Keeping with our annual tradition\, we’ll have a table of books to trade and give away. Please bring a book to share. \nWe can’t be San Antonio’s writing arts center without you! \n\n \nWe appreciate Violeta for sharing her time\, infectious laughter and poetic heart with us and our extended literary community. Please join us as we celebrate Violeta’s contributions to our team with a special volunteer spotlight! \nVioleta Garza (she/they/ella) is a multilingual Latinx poet and weaver from the Historic West Side of San Antonio\, Texas. She has been published in Acentos Review\, Boundless\, and Voices de la Luna\, among others\, and is a member of the Macondo Writing Workshop. She has also performed her original poems and stories for Texas Public Radio\, The Alamo Chapter for Human Rights\, The Curtain Up Cancer Foundation\, Voices of San Anto\, and elsewhere. Her safe space is listening to cheesy Mexican love ballads from the 1980s. You can peruse their work at violetagarza.com.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/holiday-open-house/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20231220T203000
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2023-12-20/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240117T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Rudy Ruiz
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\nWednesday\, January 17th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Rudy Ruiz and his novel\, VALLEY OF SHADOWS. Moderated by Guadalupe Garcia McCall.\n\nABOUT VALLEY OF SHADOWS\nWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters’ Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction \nNew York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection \n\n\n\n\nSolitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife\, his family\, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course\, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He’d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge\, hiding out on his ranch\, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and kidnappings ravages the town\, pushing its volatile mix of Anglo\, Mexican\, and Apache settlers to the brink of self-destruction\, he feels reluctantly compelled to confront both life\, and the much more likely possibility of death\, yet again. \nThrough luminous prose and soul-searching reflections\, Rudy Ruiz transports readers to a distant time and a remote place where the immortal forces of good and evil dance amidst the shadows of magic and mountains. \nABOUT RUDY RUIZ\nRudy Ruiz is an American author\, advocate and social entrepreneur. The son and grandson of Mexican immigrants\, Rudy Ruiz was born in Brownsville\, Texas and raised along the US-Mexico border\, living in Matamoros\, Mexico for extensive periods of time. He did not speak English until he entered school at the age of five. Once in school\, he dreamt of becoming a writer\, an entrepreneur\, and a contributor to the wellbeing of immigrants and minorities\, as well as to positive relations between diverse cultures and nations. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Harvard. Ruiz now resides in San Antonio with his wife\, Heather\, and their two children\, Paloma and Lorenzo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE MODERATOR\n\n\n\n \nBorn in Piedras Negras\, Coahuila\, Mexico and raised in Eagle Pass\, Texas\, Guadalupe García McCall is the award-winning author of several young adult novels\, some short stories for adults\, and many children’s poems. Guadalupe has received the Prestigious Pura Belpre Award\, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award\, the Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children’s Book Award\, and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy\, among many other accolades. Visit Guadalupe at her website: https://ggmccall.com/.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-rudy-ruiz/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240221T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Mag Gabbert
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink\nWednesday\, February 21st\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\n\nRSVP\nUp Next: Poet & Essayist Mag Gabbert and her poetry collection\, SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS. This discussion will be moderated by poet Séamus Fey.\nABOUT SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS\n\n“This bewitching debut delivers everything the title promises and more.” –Electric Literature \nIn SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS\, which was selected by Kathy Fagan as the winner of the 2021 Charles B. Wheeler Prize in Poetry\, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery\, insistent\, and resistant terms. These poems recast the traumas of her adolescence while charting new paths toward linguistic and bodily autonomy as an adult. Using dreamlike\, shimmering imagery\, she pieces together a fractured portrait of femininity—one that electrifies the confessional mode with its formal play and rich curiosity. Gabbert examines the origin of shame\, the role of inheritance\, and what counts as a myth\, asking\, “What’s the opposite of a man? / A woman? A wound? The devil’s image?”\n\n  \nABOUT MAG GABBERT\nMag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS (Mad Creek Books\, 2023)\, which was selected by Kathy Fagan as the winner of the 2021 Charles B. Wheeler Prize in Poetry; the chapbook The Breakup\, which was selected by Kaveh Akbar as the winner of the 2022 Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Award; and the chapbook Minml Poems (Cooper Dillon Books\, 2020). Her awards include a Discovery Award from 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center\, a Pushcart Prize\, and fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop\, Idyllwild Arts\, and Poetry at Round Top. Mag’s work can also be found in The American Poetry Review\, The Paris Review Daily\, Copper Nickel\, Guernica\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. Mag has an MFA from UC Riverside and a PhD from Texas Tech. She lives in Dallas\, Texas and teaches at Southern Methodist University. \nABOUT S.FEY\nS. Fey (they/he) is a Trans writer living in LA. Currently\, they are the poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine\, and co creative director at Rock Pocket Productions. Their debut poetry collection\, decompose\, is out with Not a Cult Media. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Poet Lore\, The Sonora Review\, and others. They love to beat their friends at Mario Party. Find them online @sfeycreates.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-mag-gabbert/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240222T203000
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SUMMARY:Rev Up Your Writing in the New Year:  Gemini Ink’s Spring Open House  
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to introduce our dynamic roster of teaching artists who can help you take your writing to the next level. \nCome connect with talented writers from San Antonio and beyond as they share new work and discuss the classes they’ll be teaching. We will hear from award-winning fiction writer and founder of Gemini Ink Nan Cuba\, poet and Zoeglossia Fellow Jonathan Fletcher\, and other instructors. We’ll also get a sneak peek at Typewriter Rodeo and their on-the-spot-generated poetry!   \nThe presentation will be followed by time to mix and mingle with fellow literature lovers and to enjoy light refreshments. Our evening will culminate with a community open mic. Bring your latest work and arrive early to grab a spot. The list is capped at 6 readers.  \nIt all happens at Gemini Ink’s downtown writing arts center at 1111 Navarro Street. Don’t leave without our spring calendar of classes and events! \n\nSean Petrie & Rebecca Bendheim are part of the nationally-renowned Typewriter Rodeo\, where they’ve written thousands of poems for strangers on the spot\, and do weekly radio poems for NPR. Both have MFAs in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, are writing teachers (Sean at UT\, Rebecca at Trinity Episcopal School)\, and authors. Sean’s books include Typewriter Rodeo\, the award-winning Pet Poems (also not just pets)\, and the Jett Ryder series for kids. Rebecca is represented by Patricia Nelson and has multiple books in the works. Join Sean and Rebecca for Poetry Flurry with Typewriter Rodeo! on March 30th\, and get ready for National Poetry Month in April. \nNan Cuba is the author of Body and Bread\, winner of the PEN Southwest Award in Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award; it was listed as one of “Ten Titles to Pick Up Now” in O\, Oprah’s Magazine and was a “Summer Books” choice from Huffington Post. As an investigator of the causes of extraordinary violence\, she is a featured journalist in the Netflix documentary\, The Confession Killer\, and another by Hulu\, Wild Crimes: Murder in Yosemite. She is founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink\, a nonprofit writing arts center. Nan is teaching a 6-week class in fiction beginning on March 18: Fiction Never Lies: Turning Personal Experience into Emotional Truth. \nOriginally from San Antonio\, Texas\, Jonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Columbia University School of the Arts.  He has been published in The Adroit Journal\, Arts Alive San Antonio\, FlowerSong Press\, riverSedge\, and The Thing Itself. He has served as a Columbia Artist/Teacher for iHOPE\, a specialized school for students with traumatic brain injury\, as well as a poetry editor for Exchange\, Columbia’s literary magazine for incarcerated writers and artists. Currently\, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow. Jonathan is teaching a Poetry for Beginners in April; a 4-session workshop for newbie poets who are ready to learn more about the genre.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/spring-open-house/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Jason Stone
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Big Texas Author Talk page. RSVP for the link.\nWednesday\, March 20th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Jason Stone and his novel\, THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY. Moderated by Matt Walter.\nABOUT THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY\n\n\n\n\nBased on historical events that occurred in Comancheria\, the region of West Texas and New Mexico controlled by the Comanche in the 18th and 19th centuries\, THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY is a historical survival story\, interweaving the reminisces of aging plainsman Charles Goodnight in the late 1920s against the backdrop of Reconstruction Texas and the events set in motion when a Kiowa raiding party kills the wife and abducts the sons of his friend R.L. Terry. \nABOUT JASON STONE\n\nJason Stone grew up in West Texas and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Austin. He is currently working on a non-fiction book about the real story behind Friday Night Lights. \nABOUT MATT WALTER\n\n\n\nMatt Walter recently retired after 20 years as Curator of Collections at the Museum of the Big Bend\, located on the Sul Ross State University campus in Alpine\, Texas. He earned an MA in History from Sul Ross and taught there for 17 years. Before that\, Matt spent 20 years in the U.S. Coast Guard. Much of his time in the Service was spent in Galveston\, Texas\, but he did get to visit 19 countries\, courtesy of Uncle Sam\, during his career.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-jason-stone/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240330T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240330T120000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flurry with Typewriter Rodeo!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 30\, 2024 10am-12pm CST\, in person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $115; Member: $100; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n  \nCLASS FULL. To have your name added to the waitlist\, email joshua@geminiink.org. \nGet your creative juices flowing for National Poetry Month 2024 with Typewriter Rodeo!\nWhether you’re a poet or not\, this workshop has something for everyone\, including a room full of typewriters to play with. Clacking away on those keys with no way to correct your mistakes is freeing and just darn fun! \nIn this one-day\, fast-paced workshop\, you’ll write between 12 to 21 short poems in less than 2 hours. Yes\, really! And\, along the way\, discover a bit more about the creative voice that’s been waiting inside you\, patiently\, to peek out. Participants will respond to a wide range of highly creative prompts and generate new poetry. The techniques we’ll learn apply to crafting poetry\, stories\, and even non-fiction (you need a voice for that\, too). \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill levels\, 16+. \nStudents will leave this class with the following: \n\n12-21 new poems\n3 techniques to spark your writing at any point (hey there\, writer’s block)\ntypewriter experience (oh yeah)\n\n \n\nSean Petrie & Rebecca Bendheim are part of the nationally renowned Typewriter Rodeo\, where they’ve written thousands of poems for strangers on the spot\, and do weekly radio poems for NPR. Both have MFAs in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, are writing teachers (Sean at UT\, Rebecca at Trinity Episcopal School)\, and authors. Sean’s books include Typewriter Rodeo\, the award-winning Pet Poems (also not just pets)\, and the Jett Ryder series for kids. Rebecca is represented by Patricia Nelson and has multiple books in the works. \n\nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetry-flurry-with-typewriter-rodeo/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Workshop
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
DESCRIPTION:Autograph Series ticketed luncheon at the McNay Art Museum\nPURCHASE TICKETS AND SPONSORSHIPS AT EVENTBRITE.\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays\, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES\, WHALE SHARKS\, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS. She also wrote four previous poetry collections including OCEANIC. Her most recent chapbook is LACE & PYRITE\, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Pushcart Prize\, a Mississippi Arts Council grant\, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She is poetry editor for SIERRA magazine\, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program and her forthcoming book of food essays is called BITE BY BITE (Ecco\, May 2024).  \n\nAutograph Series with Terrance Hayes\, with local high school students\, 2019. \nAutograph Series presents writers of national and international stature—many of them recipients of major prizes such as the Pulitzer or National Book Award—in free public performances followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Ours is one of the few such series in the nation offered to the public at no cost. A ticketed luncheon with the visiting writer partially supports the Autograph Series. Local businesses also sponsor tables for high school students\, cultivating a community of support and encouragement for the writing arts. \nPrevious Autograph writers include Margaret Atwood\, U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera\, Ha Jin\, Edward P. Jones\, Tim O’Brien\, Grace Paley\, Philip Levine\, Luis Alberto Urrea\, Terrance Hayes\, Ben Fountain\, among others.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/afternoon-with-aimee-nezhukumatathil/
LOCATION:McNay Art Museum\, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave.\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240417T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240417T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-04-17/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240424T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
CREATED:20231204T204127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T213114Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink \nWednesday\, April 24th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Poet Cyrus Cassells and his collection\, Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?\nABOUT IS THERE ROOM FOR ANOTHER HORSE ON YOUR HORSE RANCH?\n \n\nRSVP\nCyrus Cassells has perfected a poetics of merciful vitality and tenderness\, celebrating eros — in his daring and prolific representation of lust\, yes\, but more broadly in his understanding of the erotic as an affirmation and preservation of life — through time and space. Beginning his latest collection with the piece “You Be the Dancer\,” he bids us return to sacred sites of nostalgia\, insisting on it “whether we’re feeling frisky\, / Empty-handed\, / Or still beguiled by inchoate dreams–.” Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? is the apotheosis of Cassells’s work to elevate the mundane and the bodily to the exalted\, his vigorous lyrics a routine ecstasy. Though our senses lay us bare to suffering\, they also create the possibilities for pleasure and connection\, the basis of — and rewards for — humanity. “My Only Bible\,” Cassells pledges\, “is this blood-red joy / Of breathing beside you\,” “The gospel of bougainvillea / At your boyhood gate” which perfumes “the soul’s endless\, luxuriant / Coming and becoming…” Gorgeous and wry in its portrayal of transformational romance and queer selfhood\, Cassells’s ninth book of poetry reads as an anthology of love letters to people and places across the world. Cassells revises an old premise: is it better to have loved than lost\, or is that love\, once bestowed\, is never lost? A champion of the flight real intimacy requires of us\, Cassells addresses a beloved\, “You’ve just died in my arms / But suddenly it seems we’re eternal\,” the joie de vivre and bravery of his perseverance made immortal through the poem’s titular declaration — “I Believe Icarus Was not Failing as He Fell.” If in these pages you see the crash\, the poet seems to say\, remember the flying\, too\, “the giddy Argonauts we were.” \nABOUT CYRUS CASSELLS \nCyrus Cassells was the 2021 Poet Laureate of Texas. Among his honors: a 2023 Civitella-Ranieri Foundation fellowship; a 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate fellowship to administer his statewide Juneteenth poetry project; a 2019 Guggenheim fellowship; the National Poetry Series; a Lambda Literary Award; two NEA grants; a Pushcart Prize; and the William Carlos Williams Award. His 2018 volume\, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo\, was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award\, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas\, translated from the Catalan\, was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters’ Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book of 2018 and 2019. To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu\, combining translations\, poetry\, and memoir in homage to Catalan Spain’s most revered 20th century writer\, was published in 2023. Cassells was nominated for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for his film and television reviews in The Washington Spectator. He teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University\, where he received a 2021 Presidential Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities and was named a 2023 University Distinguished Professor. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR \n\n\nD E Zuccone is the author of a volume of poetry\, Vanishes\, with 3ATaos Press. He is currently completing No Provenance//Art-o-mata\, a manuscript of semi-ekphrastic poems surrounding works of art that don’t precisely exist. He has been a poetry reader in Houston\, Taos\, Los Angeles\, and a frequent\, grateful guest of Archway Gallery. He has published poetry in Ekphrastic Review\, Borderlands\, Water Stone\, International Review of Poetry\, Southern Indiana Review\, Schuylkill Review\, Hurricane Review\, Big River\, Apalachee Review\, Deep Water Literary Review\, & Garden Box. His poetry and fiction have been in anthologies from Round Top\, Taos Artists\, Words & Art\, Equinox\, Mutabilis Press\, and Big Poetry Review. He is an MFA graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently has an interview podcast\, Amicus Briefs for Public Poetry. Visit dezuccone.com.\n\n\nVisit the Big Texas Author Talk page.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-cyrus-cassells/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240510T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240510T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
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SUMMARY:From Madness to Heaven: An Evening with Gemini Wahhaj and Chaitali Sen\, followed by a Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Gemini Wahhaj and Chaitali Sen\nJoin Gemini Ink on Friday\, May 10th\, for a night of prose and literary celebration as we partner with our friends at Poetic Republic Cafe to create an inviting space for the writing community to share words\, wine\, and wisdom\, with a little latte or espresso on the side. \nLet’s honor Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the compelling fiction of Gemini Wahhaj and Chaitali Sen\, who capture the human experience through the lens of immigration and political unrest and do so with power and elegance. Following the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 3-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm. \n\nGemini Wahhaj is the author of the novel The Children of this Madness (7.13 Books\, Fall 2023) and the short-story collection Katy Family (Jackleg Press\, Spring 2025). \nChaitali Sen is the author of the novel The Pathless Sky (Europa Editions 2015) and the story collection A New Race of Men from Heaven (Sarabande Books 2023)\, chosen by Danielle Evans as the winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories and essays have been published by American Short Fiction\, Boulevard\, Catapult\, Colorado Review\, Ecotone\, Electric Literature\, LitHub\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, New England Review\, Shenandoah\, and many other publications. Born in India and raised in New York and Pennsylvania\, she currently lives in Austin\, Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/from-madness-to-heaven/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240515T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240515T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T181537Z
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-05-15/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240515T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
CREATED:20231204T204344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T132702Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Glenn Blake
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink\nWednesday\, May 15th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Glenn Blake\, with moderator Cliff Hudder\, discussing The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories\nRSVP\nAbout The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories\n\n\nThe most complete collection of Glenn Blake’s luminous short fiction published to date.  “I was born in a land of bayous\, raised between rivers\,” Glenn Blake writes. “There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters\, and as you drive across\, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay.”  These fourteen stories are set in the swamps\, bayous\, and sloughs of Southeast Texas\, a region that is subsiding—sinking inches every year. The characters who inhabit Blake’s haunting landscape—awash in their own worlds\, adrift in their own lives—struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides. \nABOUT GLENN BLAKE \nGlenn Blake has taught in the English Department at Rice University\, the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston\, and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. He is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Tyler.  He is the author of Drowned Moon\, Return Fire\, and The Old and the Lost. His novel\, Degüello\, is due in December. He has edited Gulf Coast\, The Hopkins Review\, and Boulevard. He is now serving as the Director of the University of Texas Press at Tyler. In 2000\, he was elected Chair of PEN Houston. In 2020\, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. \nABOUT CLIFF HUDDER \nCliff Hudder received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Houston in 1995\, and a PhD in American Literature from Texas A&M University in 2018. He has been an archaeological laborer\, a film and video editor\, a photographer\, an air compressor mechanic\, an electrical lineman\, and an educator. In addition to articles on regional and American literature\, his short stories have appeared in several journals\, including Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Missouri Review. His work has received the Barthelme and Michener Awards\, the Peden Prize\, the Short Story Award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, and the Ruth Vande Kieft Prize from the Eudora Welty Society. His novella\, Splinterville\, won the 2007 Texas Review Fiction Award\, and his novel\, Pretty Enough for You\, was named a top-10 Texas favorite for 2015 by the Lone Star Literary Life website. His third book\, Sallowsfield\, will be released in November by Texas Review Press. He serves as the chair of Psychology and Sociology at Lone Star College-Montgomery in Conroe\, Texas. In 2017\, Cliff was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-glenn-blake/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240619T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240619T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T181538Z
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-06-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240619T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240619T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
CREATED:20240422T182156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T185917Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Alex Temblador
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 19th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Alex Temblador\, moderated Daniel Peña\nRSVP\nAbout Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers \nA practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own.\n\nDo you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than your own? It’s not a subject that’s generally taught in creative writing programs\, and there are so few craft books and online resources on the subject. Even if you can take a seminar\, class\, or workshop\, there’s nothing like having an easy-to-understand book on hand to provide guidance and insight every time you craft characters with historically marginalized identities.\n\n\nIn Writing an Identity Not Your Own\, award-winning author Alex Temblador discusses one of the most contentious topics in creative writing: crafting a character whose identity is historically marginalized. What is “identity\,” and how do unconscious biases and bias blocks impact and influence what we write? What is intersectionality? You’ll learn about identity terms\, stereotypes\, and tropes\, and receive genre-specific advice related to various identities to consider when writing different races and ethnicities\, sexual and romantic orientations\, gender identities\, disabilities\, nationalities\, and more. Through writing strategies\, exercises\, and literary excerpts\, writers will gain a clearer understanding on how misrepresentations and harmful portrayals can appear in storylines\, dialogue\, and characterization. Alex will guide writers from the brainstorming phase through the editing process so they can gain a full understanding of the complexities of writing other identities and why it’s important to get them right.\n\n\n\n\nAlex Temblador is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers\, Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Her work has appeared in PALABRITAS\, D Magazine\, and Colorado Review\, among others. Alex is the creator and moderator of LitTalk at Whose Books and the Executive Director of Write Here DFW\, the Dallas-Fort Worth literary calendar. In addition to teaching creative writing classes\, she is an award-winning travel\, arts\, and culture journalist whose work has appeared in Outside\, National Geographic\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Texas Monthly\, among others.\n\n\n\nDaniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Associate Professor at the University of North Texas where he teaches in the PhD Program in Creative Writing.  Formerly\, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City where he worked as a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar. A graduate of Cornell University and a former Picador Guest Professor in Leipzig\, Germany\, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares\, The Rumpus\, the Kenyon Review\, Texas Monthly\, NBC News\, and The New York Times Magazine among other venues. He’s currently a regular contributor to The Guardian and the Ploughshares blog. His novel\, Bang\, is out now from Arte Publico Press. He lives in the beautiful Dallas-Fort Worth area.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-with-alex-temblador/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240627T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240627T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
CREATED:20240422T182414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T165731Z
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SUMMARY:Letters to James Baldwin: A Pride Month Reading & Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, June 27th\, to wrap up Pride Month 2024 with a timely and intimate literary discussion around the life and work of James Baldwin.  \nWe will celebrate the genius of Baldwin\, a black\, queer writer and civil rights activist\, and create a space for other writers to draw inspiration from and interact with his work.  This event will feature authors Georgie Lee\, Aminah Decé\, and Aaron Deutsch\, who will each share a piece of work written in response to Baldwin’s concepts and ideas. Come join the community conversation. Following the program\, we will have a community open mic. Light refreshments will be served. \nPlease visit our social media pages during the month of June. We’re sharing writing prompts and quotes from James Baldwin that mayinspire you to write something new for the open mic! \n \nInstagram: @sa_geminiink\nFacebook: @GeminiInk\nTwitter: @GeminiInk   \n\nAminah Decé is a Teaching Artist from Mississippi. She was trained at the World Combat Academy\, Institute of Martial Science\, and maintains degrees in The Humanities\, Fine Arts & Art History/Criticism from UTSA. She began her artistic journey as a slam poet in Killeen\, Texas. Aminah discredits concepts of race and supremacy through her art and empowers the public to do the same through art education. \n  \nAaron Deutsch received his MFA in poetry with distinction from Texas State University\, intending to acquire a lexicon to answer the wild\, mystical questions the world around him seemed to be asking. That journey led him to become a senior program manager with the United States Department of Defense\, where he works to build regional security across South America and the Middle East alongside international partners. To establish and maintain effective communication\, he uses poetics and linguistics to build shared goals across cultures. He loves teaching creative writing classes\, working on that ever-elusive first book\, and spoiling his Boston Terrier\, Hamlet.  \nGeorgie Lee (he/they) is an award-winning and internationally published poet from South Texas. By day\, Georgie is the healthcare form designer for all Baptist Health System hospitals in the San Antonio area. By night\, Georgie is heavily involved in the local performing arts scene. From acting in community theater productions to playing the clarinet in symphonic bands\, Georgie hopes to inspire others to explore the power of recovery through creative activity. Their work is centered around self-love\, grief\, overcoming addiction\, and queerness as a celebration.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/letters-to-james-baldwin/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240711T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
CREATED:20240530T194340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240701T185558Z
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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink Volunteer Summer Social
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in getting a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writing life? Interested in helping our community craft their stories? \nThursday\, July 11\, 2024 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink \nFree and Open to Existing and Prospective Volunteers \nJoin us for a fun and informal Volunteer Summer Social. We’ll share light summer refreshments\, fun literary games\, and learn about volunteer opportunities\, including general office duties\, event support\, social and assisting teaching artists in the classroom.  \nHelp us teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life! \n\nhttps://geminiink.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-Volunteer-Social-Video.mp4\nComplete this short volunteer survey for full details.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/volunteer-summer-social/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240717T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240717T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T181538Z
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-07-17/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240717T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240717T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T150259
CREATED:20240702T182809Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Ramona Reeves
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 17th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Ramona Reeves\, moderated Cassandra Lane\nRSVP\nAbout It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories\nWinner of the 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction\, Texas Institute of Letters\n\n\nHappiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl\, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes\, in-laws\, and coworkers\, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to reforge their lives\, a task easier said than done in Mobile\, Alabama\, which bears its own share of tainted history. Despite overwhelming challenges and the ever-looming specters of status\, race\, and class\, the characters in It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories strive for versions of the American dream through modern and often unconventional means. Told with humor and honesty\, these stories remind us not only about the fallibility of being human and the resistance of some to change but also about finding redemption in unlikely places. \nIn linked short stories taking place across time\, Reeves offers up two characters finding their own form of redemption. . . . Both humorous and deeply emotional\, this collection shines for its beautifully written characters.\n–Booklist \nThese surprising\, wonderfully funny stories glow with comic energy. The eleven pieces in It Falls Gently All Around serve as chapters in a deeply satisfying portrayal of characters facing the expiration dates on their old beliefs and their newly acquired convictions. Ramona Reeves has fully brought to life a cast of flawed\, breaking people with bravery and resilience to spare. The book is a triumph of wise and compassionate storytelling.\n–Kevin McIlvoy\, author of One Kind Favor \nIt Falls Gently All Around when a character believes ‘He could make out ghosts swimming in the darkness\, like another life he might have lived. . . .’ It is one of several instances in the book when a story suddenly coalesces\, and the reader is both surprised and moved\, and this particular example speaks to a clear ambition of the author—to capture the elusive human moments that we all experience but for which we need an artist to genuinely see. This is a splendid book by an important new writer.\n–Robert Boswell\, author of Mystery Ride\, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards\, and Tumbledown \n\n\nRamona Reeves won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2022 for her collection\,It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories. She was a recent fellow at the San Ysidro Writers Residency and a 2024 judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Post Road\, The Southampton Review\, Pembroke\, New South\, Bayou Magazine\, Texas Highways and others. She teaches a course for writers working on their first manuscripts and will be teaching at the Desert Nights\, Rising Stars Writers Conference later this year. She and her wife currently call Austin home. \n\n\n\n\nCassandra Lane is winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and author of We Are Bridges (Feminist Press)\, which NPR called “a stunning contribution to what must become our collective memory.” Lane received her MFA from Antioch University LA. She formerly worked as a newspaper reporter\, high school English and journalism teacher\, college admissions advisor\, senior writer\, and community relations manager for the Dodgers. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times’s “Conception” series\, the L.A. Times\, the Times-Picayune\, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and multiple anthologies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of L.A. Parent magazine.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-ramona-reeves/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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