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SUMMARY:MOSAIC Summer Workshop with Poet Mandy Lynn
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URL:https://geminiink.org/events/summmer-workshop-with-poet-mandy-lynn/
LOCATION:Contemporary at Blue Star\, 116 Blue Star\, San Antonio\, Texas
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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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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SUMMARY:Discover New Entry Points into Your Writing: An Open Genre Workshop with National Book Award Finalist Reginald Gibbons
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, July 18\, 25\, & Aug 1\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, on Zoom (This class was rescheduled from Thur\, July 11\, 18 & 25)\nInstructor: Reginald Gibbons\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full. To add your name to the waitlist\, please email Josh Cantú at joshua@geminiink.org. \nAre you struggling to begin a creative piece or has the revision process left you lost on how to move forward? Paying attention to our inner and outer worlds and connecting the two using our intuition as a guide can help us work through creative blocks. Using techniques based on the work of author and psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas\, we will tune into objects in the outside world to help us dig into deeper parts of ourselves\, so we can get unstuck and add depth to our writing. \nIn this three-part\, open-genre workshop\, we will learn how to use not only writerly craft from a variety of genres\, including poetry\, fiction\, and creative nonfiction but also our landscape of feeling and thought\, memory and experience to create a more deliberate artistic practice. We will examine the works of writers such as Amy Hempel\, Basil Bunting\, Patricia Smith\, Marga Minko\, Kimiko Hahn\, and others. Students will pick which writers resonate most for them and study how intuition and craft informs their work. \nIn the workshop\, everyone will draft new work as well as revise existing pieces\, using a process that brings together intuition and craft in unique ways. Participants will be able to carry this innovative practice into all their work. \nThis class is open to writers of all genres and skill levels. \nStudents will leave this class with:  \n\nAn understanding of the connection between intuition and craft \nTechniques for working through creative blocks\nA draft of new or revised creative work \n\n\nReginald Gibbons\, Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University\, is a poet\, fiction writer\, translator\, literary critic. His books of poems include Last Lake (University of Chicago Press)\, Creatures of a Day (LSU Press; Finalist for the National Book Award in poetry; see https://www.ronslate.com/on-creatures-of-a-day-poems-by-reginald-gibbons-lsu-press/)\, and Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories (University of Chicago Press). Three bilingual selections of his poems have been published: in  Spanish and English\, Desde una barca de papel (translated by Manuel Ulacia\, Victor Manuel Mendiola\, Jennifer Clement\, and Jordi Doce\, and edited by Jorde Doce\, 2010\, Littera Libros [Spain]); in Italian and English\, L’Abitino Blu (translated by Piera Mattei\, 2012\, gattomerlino/superstripes); and in French and English\, Je Pas Je (translated by Nathanael\, 2014\, e-book\, recoursaupoeme.com).
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/discover-new-entry-points/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:Get Ready to Write Your Novel This November with Laura Castoro
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, July 31 – September 4\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid\nInstructor: Laura Castoro\nNonmember: $155; Member: $135; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \nHave you always dreamed of writing a novel\, but didn’t know how to get started? Have you thought about participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)\, but were too scared to actually do it? \nNational Novel Writing Month is this November! The goal of this annual writing challenge is to write a book of 50\,000 words or more in 30 days. Although November seems like a ways away\, there are things we can do to prepare for success now! \nIn this six-week novel writing prep course we will use National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) resources and more to do the pre-work to set ourselves up to draft a novel this (or any) November! We will explore tools and resources to help us create a dynamic storyline\, build pivotal characters\, bring the setting to life\, and draft an outline. We will also set achievable goals for getting the book project completed.  \nIf you are not ready to write a novel in 30 days\, no worries! This course will help you generate new ideas and lay the groundwork for tackling that novel at your own pace. \nWe will open a discussion forum on WetInk\, our online platform for creative writing classes\, during National Novel Writing Month. Students will be able to post goals\, updates\, words of encouragement\, and insights on their novel writing journey. Laura will check in with students 3 times via the Wet Ink Platform during National Novel Writing Month (November\, 2024) to answer questions\, respond to discussion\, and cheer writers on. \nOpen to fiction writers of all skill levels who are ready to take on the challenge of writing a novel. Students are encouraged to bring laptops and their favorite writing tools. \nStudents will leave this course with: \n\nThe setting\, characters\, plot\, and outline drafted\nA calendar-driven plan of action for bringing your novel to life\nResources and support for completing a 50\,000-word novel\n\n\nLaura Castoro\, a USA Today\, Amazon top 100\, and Apple Books bestseller\, has published 47 novels with major publishing houses such as Dell Books\, Berkley\, Avon\, Warner\, MIRA\, Harlequin\, Kensington\, Pocketbooks\, St\, Harper Collins\, Martins Press\, and William Morrow. She has also contributed to several fiction anthologies and has published non-fiction YA and short fiction in Good Housekeeping. Under the name Laura Parker\, she writes historical and contemporary romance\, westerns\, and sagas. As Laura Castoro\, she writes contemporary African American and contemporary women’s fiction. Writing as D. D. Ayres\, she publishes a romantic suspense series called the K-9 Rescue Series. Her current release as Laura Castoro is Love On The Line (2021) through William Morrow. \nLaura has won multiple national writing awards. In 2005\, she was inducted into the Arkansas Writers’ Hall of Fame. She is a past president of Novelists\, Inc. (2013)\, an international professional fiction writers’ organization. She is a past president and board member of the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow\, a writer residency program in the AR Ozarks. She is a speaker at numerous conferences and workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Laura currently lives in San Antonio\, TX. Visit Laura at www.ddayres.com
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/get-ready-to-write-your-novel/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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