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SUMMARY:Generative Flash Fiction with Andrew Porter 
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Aug 1  & 8\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (via Zoom and in-person at Gemini Ink)\nInstructor: Andrew Porter\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE.\nClass closed. To add your name to the waiting list\, please contact joshua@geminiink.org. \nQuick consumption–that is how today’s audiences engage with all forms of media and entertainment. This makes flash fiction an ideal form for readers who want to go on a short but thrilling ride in less than 1\,500 words. But how does a writer tell a potent and satisfactory story in such a short form? \nIn this introductory workshop\, participants will study different types of flash fiction\, discuss effective strategies for working within the constraints of this form\, and complete in-class writing prompts with the goal of developing these exercises into more polished flash pieces. Finally\, for those interested in sharing\, time will be set aside during the second class for students to share their flash-in-progress with the group. \nStudents will leave this workshop with the following: \n\nAn understanding of the fundamentals of flash fiction\nStrategies for generating successful flash fiction\nA first-draft flash fiction piece\n\nRead Andrew’s Writer’s Desk here!\n\nANDREW PORTER is the acclaimed\, award-winning author of the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf 2023) and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage)\, and the novel In Between Days (Knopf). An Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate\, he has received a Pushcart Prize\, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story\, The Threepenny Review\, Ploughshares\, Narrative\, The Southern Review\, and on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Currently\, he teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas. \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/generative-flash-fiction/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Strange Family Stories: An Adult Picture Book Writing Class with Xavier Garza
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Aug 2\, 9 & 16\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (via Zoom and in-person at Gemini Ink)\nInstructor: Xavier Garza\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nLa Llorona\, the Chupacabra\, the Haunted Train Tracks of San Antonio\, the power of the all healing Huevo\, or that crazy story about a relative who had a close encounter of the mysterious kind. We all have strange stories that have been passed down\, and this workshop is a chance to memorialize one story for future generations. What better way to bring this story to life than a picture book for adults?  \nIn this three-week class\, students will draw from their family stories\, popular folklore\, superstitions\, and creepy creature legends to create their own picture book for adults. Participants will take these entertaining stories\, divide them into sections\, align the story with drawings and other media\, and create a memento to pass down. The class will also touch on bookbinding and publishing.  \nThis course is open to adult writers of all skill levels. Workshop materials will be provided for those who take the class in person. For those joining online\, a suggested materials list will be provided.  \nStudents will leave this workshop with: \n\nA new type of storytelling that balances images and words\nAn understanding of picture book formats and rules\nA picture book in progress that can be completed at home\nIdeas on bookbinding and publishing\n\n\nXavier Garza was born in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He is an enthusiastic author\, artist\, teacher and storyteller whose work is a lively documentation of life\, dreams\, superstitions\, and heroes in the bigger-than-life world of South Texas. Garza has exhibited his art and performed his stories in venues throughout Texas\, Arizona\, and the state of Washington. He has received such recognitions as the Pura Belpre Honor book and the Libro de las Americas Honor book awards. He lives with his wife and son in San Antonio\, Texas\, and is the author of numerous books. \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/strange-family-stories/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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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
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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