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SUMMARY:Uncovering the Whole Self: Create Poetic Self-Portraits with Ayokunle Falomo
DESCRIPTION:Monday(s)\, February 3 & 10\, 2025\, 6:30-8:30pm\, CST\, via Zoom \nNonmember $135        Member    $115                  Student $80 \n*EARN CPE’S\nONE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n  \n\nEverything in the world that we touch\, smell\, see\, taste\, or hear is a mirror reflecting us\, if we dare to look closely. Despite this truth\, the world (sometimes violently) demands we hide who we are. How do we bring our whole selves to the page\, especially when it feels dangerous to do so?  \nIn this two-session workshop\, we will use works of art by revered artists like Frida Kahlo plus poems by Safia Elhillo\, Chen Chen\, Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, and Tarfia Faizullah to generate new work through the lens of self-reflection. Participants will also use writing prompts to reflect deeply on who they are. What new truths will be discovered\, or uncovered\, about the self? How will you use these exercises to shape poems that are honest and vulnerable? \nThis course is open to writers of all genres\, backgrounds\, and skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this workshop with:  \n\nAt least two drafts of new written work and one revised draft\nNew close reading techniques and critical observation skills\nStrategies to overcome fears when it comes to writing about the vulnerable\n\n\nAyokunle Falomo is Nigerian\, American\, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books\, 2024)\, AFRICANAMERICAN’T (FlowerSong Press\, 2022—finalist for Texas Institute of Letters’ Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry)\, two self-published collections and African\, American (New Delta Review\, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review’s 8th annual chapbook contest). A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center\, MacDowell\, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program\, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry\, his work has been anthologized and widely published.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetic-self-portraits/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Story Core with Rubén Degollado
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday(s)\, February 18\, 25 & March 4\, 11\, 18\, 25\, 2025\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom \nNonmember $155       Member    $135                  Student $95 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \n  \n\nGet down to the core of a fantastic story! Understanding how setting\, plot\, and character are inextricably linked is vital to creating immersive narratives that keep the reader invested through to the last page.  \nIn this six-session generative virtual workshop\, participants will begin by exploring examples of the core elements of setting\, plot\, and characters working well together to create a cohesive storyline. We will do pre-writing exercises focused on drafting complicated characters who connect to the reader’s emotions and make them want to keep reading.  Then we will move through a series of setting exercises that build the details of place and transport the reader there. This generative work will prime writers for creating memorable stories with believable characters navigating the worlds they inhabit. \nThis course is open to fiction writers of all backgrounds and skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this workshop with:  \n\nA character empathy map\nA full character profile\nA developed setting for their story\n\nJoin us for the Lit Minds Book Club on March 12! We’re reading The Family Izquierdo\, by Rubén Degollado.\nRead Rubén’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n\nRubén Degollado’s work has appeared or been featured in Texas Highways\, Literary Hub\, CRAFT\, The Common\, The Rumpus\, Image Journal\, and elsewhere. His first novel Throw won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult book for 2020. His debut literary novel The Family Izquierdo is a New York Times Book Review editor’s choice and a long list title for the PEN/Faulkner and Mark Twain American Voice in Literature awards. Rubén lives and writes along the southern border\, in the Río Grande Valley of Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/story-core-with-ruben-degollado/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2025-02-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 11:30am-1pm cst via Zoom \nFor ages 13-19 years old \nAre you a teen who enjoys writing in their free time? Or are you someone who’s never had the chance to write on their own? If so\, this Online Teen Writing Circle is for you!  \nIn this once-a-month writing circle\, teens will enjoy writing in a judgment free zone. We’ll break the ice with one another and perform various writing exercises. You are encouraged to share your work with your peers and get constructive feedback\, but it is not required. Our only goal is to keep you writing! \nThis course is open to teen writers of any skill level. \nParticipants will leave the writing circle with:  \n\nNew\, unique written work\nListening and sharing experience\nConstructive feedback to help improve their writing\n\nWant to learn more about our Teen Writing Circle? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions!\n \n\nDaniel Ramirez has been an educator for over 15 years. After studying History in grad school\, he tromped around the outdoors doing conservation with teenagers. Spending time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of incorporating creativity with learning. Encouraging youth to tap into their creative abilities convinced him to discover his own. Since then\, in addition to his original love of storytelling\, he’s found a penchant for calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he explores the crystalline waters of Central Texas in his free time. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-02-22/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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