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SUMMARY:Publishing Made Possible: How to Get Your Work into Literary Magazines & Presses with Diamond Braxton
DESCRIPTION:Get your written work out there!\n  \nSaturday\, March 14\, 10am-1pm CT\, Hybrid (in-person at Gemini Ink and online via Zoom)\nNonmember: $75; Member: $65; Student/Educ/Mil: $53\n \n \n  \nAre you a budding writer who’s ready to get your written work out into the real world? Abode Press founder Diamond Braxton will teach you how!  \nIn this one-day workshop\, we will guide writers of all levels through the ins and outs of getting published. We’ll cover how to identify the right journals and presses for your work. Then\, we’ll walk you through essential submission materials such as artist statements\, query letters\, and writer bios. Whether you’re sending out a short story\, poem\, or full manuscript\, you’ll learn strategies to help your application rise above the slush pile.  \nPerfect for anyone who feels daunted by the submission process\, this workshop offers a clear roadmap and practical tools to navigate your publishing journey. Participants are encouraged to bring a piece of writing they’d like to publish\, but it’s not required—everyone is welcome to join. \nThis workshop is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following:\n\nA writer bio\nAn artist statement and/or query letter\nA list of potential publishers and agents that align with their work\n\n\nDiamond Braxton is a writer\, editor\, publisher\, and lecturer based in Texas. Their award-winning work has been published in Best of the Net\, Best Microfiction\, Foglifter\, The Forge\, and the forthcoming anthology I Love Us: Queer on the Borderlands (Flowersong Press\, 2026). She has received fellowships for her work from Tin House\, Lambda Literary\, and Hedgebrook. She has held apprenticeships with Sourcebooks and Feminist Press. They are the Founder and Director of Abode Press\, a 501(c)3 publishing press based in the American South dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/publishing-made-possible/
LOCATION:TX
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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-03-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Old Drafts\, New Writing: Turning Text into Graphic Literature with Octavio Quintanilla
DESCRIPTION:Literary Masters Lecture Series \nHave a draft you don’t know what to do with? Learn how to transform it into graphic storytelling.\nMonday(s)\, March 23 & 30\, 6:30-8pm CT\, via Zoom\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Educ/Mil: $63\n \n \n  \n\nIn this 2-part master session\, you’ll learn how to:\n\n\nModel from authors and artists who successfully blend literature and visual art.\n\n\nDevelop an understanding of how to break down existing writing (poems\, essays\, short stories) into panels and visual sequences.\n\n\nPractice quick sketch methods for turning a written scene into a graphic draft.\n\n\nLearn how to transform your old writing into graphic literature! In this two-part lecture\, led by 2025 Texas Poet Octavio Quintanilla\, we will explore how writers can use new and existing work to create graphic literature—a form that merges text with visual storytelling to evoke powerful\, multidimensional narratives. Each session features an engaging craft talk\, actionable writing strategies\, and a live Q&A with the author. \nOctavio Quintanilla is the 2025 Texas Poet Laureate and an award-winning poet and visual artist exploring the intersection of text and image. Learn from one of Texas’s leading literary voices.  \n\nOctavio Quintanilla  is the 2025 Texas Poet Laureate and the author of the poetry collections\, If I Go Missing (Slough Press\, 2014)\, The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press\, 2024)\, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours (University of Arizona Press\, 2025)\, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets. He’s the founder and director of the literature & arts festival VersoFrontera\, publisher of Alabrava Press\, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/old-drafts-new-writing/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Climb Inside Other Minds: Exploring Persona Poetry with Leticia Urieta
DESCRIPTION:Write Persona Poetry for Fresh Perspective\n  \nSaturday\, March 28\, 10am-2pm CT\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Educ/Mil $70\n*EARN CPEs; ONE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n \n  \nAre you a writer searching for a new perspective? Persona poems–written in another person’s voice or from their point of view–offer a way to slip into someone else’s skin\, converse with those who have passed\, or see the world through another’s eyes.  \nIn this one-day generative workshop\, participants will learn about persona\, call-and-response dialogue\, epistolary techniques\, and how to apply these to our own writing. We’ll then create our own narrative poems that shift perspective\, get into someone else’s head\, and/or engage with ancestors\, historical figures\, etc. Students will be invited to share work and receive feedback. \nParticipants are encouraged to bring their lunch. This workshop is open to writers of all skill levels 16+.  \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following:\n\nTechniques for shifting into someone else’s perspective\nAt least one persona poem \nFeedback on your poems and ideas on where to submit your work\n\nRead Leticia’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n\nLeticia Urieta (she/her) is Tejana writer from Austin\, TX. Leticia is a graduate of Agnes Scott College with a BA in English/Creative Writing and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. She works as a teaching artist for adults and youth and offers a variety of workshops for all ages. \nLeticia writes across several genres\, including poetry\, comics\, speculative fiction and horror. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lumina\, The Offing\, Kweli Journal\, Medium\, Electric Lit\, Uncharted Magazine and others. Her chapbook\, The Monster was published in 2018 from LibroMobile Press. Her hybrid collection\, Las Criaturas\, from FlowerSong Press was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters and a finalist for the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Short Story Collections. Leticia’s dark fiction collection\, The Remedy is the Disease\, is forthcoming in 2026 from Undertaker Books. Leticia loves her husband and dogs who are terrible work distractions. Despite all that\, she is fueled by sushi\, horror movies\, and pug videos on Instagram. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/exploring-persona-poetry/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 12-1:30pm 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-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-03-28/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260330T183000
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \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/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-03-30/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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