The Big Texas Read featuring Octavio Quintanilla

Online via Zoom

We’re chatting with Octavio Quintanilla discussing his novel, If I Go Missing, with guest moderator Natalia Treviño.
THE BOOK An astonishing debut, If I Go Missing is timely, fearless, and necessary. In these poems, Octavio Quintanilla measures displacement with language and grapples with the longing to begin anew, to return to what was left unsaid, undone. Redemption is not always possible in the geography of these poems, but there is always a sense of hope. And by this pulse we are guided, the poet’s unmistakable voice that, finally, clears the way so we may find our bearing.

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Rebel with a Cause: A Celebration of the Literary Life of Gregg Barrios

Every year Gemini Ink honors a great San Antonio writer with the Award of Literary Excellence at our annual gala, Inkstravaganza. This year our honoree is the beloved playwright, poet and journalist Gregg Barrios. The San Antonio Current has called him “A Texas Treasure.” We invite you to join us on Friday, October 15th, for an unforgettable gala celebration of his life and work.

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Veteran’s Writing Collective with Sarah Colby

Online via Zoom

The Veteran’s Writing Collective 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.

Free

The Big Texas Read featuring Edward Vidaurre

Online via Zoom

UP NEXT:
November 17th, 2021 via Zoom @ 7PM CST
We’re reading and discussing celebrated poet Edward Vidaurre’s collection Pandemia & Other Poems. This session will be moderated by Aztlan Libre Press co-founder Juan Tejeda.

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Austin Bat Cave presents Story Department : Family Feud with San Antonio’s Gemini Ink

Carpenter Hotel 400 Josephine St, Austin, 78704, United States

Featuring writers Florinda Brown, Adam Soto, Leticia Urieta, and Eddie Vega. The Carpenter Hotel
Doors 7p // Storytelling 7:30p Tickets start at $10 online & at the door. ASL interpretation will be provided.
Proceeds support Austin Bat Cave’s tuition-free creative writing programs for young people in Central Texas.

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

$10

The Big Texas Read featuring Sergio Troncoso

Online via Zoom

We're reading Sergio Troncoso's A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son. How does a Mexican-American, the son of immigrants, a child of the border, la frontera, leave home and move to the heart of gringo America?

Free

Holiday Party & Book Swap

Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United States

RSVP   Mingle with fellow writers and literary fans for this festive in-person gathering and...

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Standing with Ukraine Poetry Reading

Main Plaza 115 N Main Ave, San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio Poets in Solidarity with Ukraine are joining together for a reading in support of Ukraine. Please stay as long as you can in solidarity with one another and the people of Ukraine on this day we can peacefully and safely stand together in public for peace and equity and justice at this time of crisis. You can bring a sign. You can BE a sign. You already are a sign of peace to come.

Free

Black and Blue: 400 Years of Struggle and Transcendence

Guadalupe Theater 1301 Guadalupe St, San Antonio, Texas

Th e inaugural Sterling Houston Festival is a month-long series of events scheduled
for June 2022 presented by a city-wide collaboration of arts organizations honoring
the late African-American writer and San Antonio native, Sterling Houston. Join
Gemini Ink for a dramatic reading of “Black and Blue: 400 Years of Struggle and
Transcendence,” one of Houston’s seminal works; followed by a panel discussion on
the bold vision of this playwright.

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