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Image, Tone and Voice:  Let the Poetry of Louise Glück Be Our Guide

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Take a deep dive into the poetry of Louise Gluck, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. For six weeks, we will be reading in community and writing in response together. In this generative workshop, we read Gluck’s poems aloud together for the first hour and in the second hour, we write independently. You will receive supplemental materials weekly, including a mix of writing prompts, essays, interviews, and links for further reading. In our final meeting,
we will celebrate and share our newly generated work.

$135

Techniques to Write like Never Before in an Overwhelming World

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This talk will cover the necessity of writing personally and communally. We will discuss meditative techniques to help us break creative blocks that come from overwhelm in order to find deeper emotional resonance in our writing. 

Free
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Nights of Noir Special Edition: East of Texas, West of Hell

Online via Zoom

Join us for a discussion with author Rod Davis about his new novel East of Texas, West of Hell. Davis expands the thrilling world of South, America in this Southern Noir, rife with chaos, betrayal, unexpected turns, and fascinating characters. Searching for a missing girl, Jack Prine finds himself at odds with neo-Nazis, the cartel, and the Dixie Mafia in this intricate web of deception, extortion, and murder. Order your copy from NewSouth Books, or check your favorite bookseller.

$25

Inner Craft—An Open Genre Workshop with National Book Award Finalist Reginald Gibbons

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Join award-winning author Reginald Gibbons on an exploration of “inner craft.” In this open-genre workshop, you will learn how to use not only writerly craft from the three major genres (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction) but also your inner landscape of feeling and thought, memory and experience to create a more deliberate artistic practice. Over three weeks, work closely with this master teacher as he guides you through craft techniques gleaned from these genres to show you how to gain more access to your intuitive resources. In the workshop, everyone will draft new work and revise pre-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.

$125

Writing for Heroic Power: Homer, Dante & Virgil in Light of Modern Realities

Online via Zoom

Join Gemini Ink Board president Charles Massiatte on a contemporary exploration of Greek epics that will fuel the reader and writer in you. Dip back into the classics to re-envision our contemporary moment and discover templates for writing your own narratives, even epic ones, in new ways.

$25

Four Ways to Develop as  a Fiction Writer: A One-day Workshop with National Book Critics’ Circle Award Winner Ben Fountain

Online via Zoom

In this workshop we’ll focus on four specific areas in the craft of writing fiction and will discuss the more general questions of fiction’s role in society, and how we as aspiring writers might also aspire to keep our bodies, souls, and sanity intact while developing as artists. The four craft sections will deal with character, plot, dialogue, and scene, with examples drawn from modern and contemporary fiction, and occasionally nonfiction. Along the way, we’ll discuss work routines, what to do when we’re stuck, where to submit our work, and what—and how—to read as writers. 

$175

Poems for the Future — Myth and Spirit Make for Vision and Community

Online via Zoom

Join acclaimed New York City poet Patricia Spears Jones in a master class that explores the connection of myth and spirit in the creation of poems for and about the future. Whitman in his essay, “Democratic Vistas” charged poets with sustaining a credible and expansive democracy. But his road map and the myths he relied on no longer suffice.  

$135

The Best of Both Worlds: Welcoming Poetry and Poetic Elements into Your Prose—A Workshop with Jasminne Mendez

Online via Zoom

One of the greatest pieces of advice I received from a mentor once was: "You don't have to give up being a poet to write prose." In this generative writing workshop, we will explore the lyric and braided essay form and how poetry and poetic elements can be integrated into the narrative of a piece in creative and interesting ways. We will look at examples of essays that incorporate poetic strategies such as repetition, alliteration, imagery and even rhyme, and we will use prompts to create our own lyric or braided essays.

$125