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Writing About the Weird with Leticia Urieta

Online via Zoom

Are you a storyteller? Have you ever considered how to push the boundaries of what storytelling could be?  Ever wonder what blending genres of horror, folktales and traditional stories, as well as magical imaginings, could mean for your work? In this writing workshop for adults 16+, we will explore short stories, poems and hybrid pieces that help us reimagine realities and unlock the strange, the magical, the grotesque, and the beautiful that we find in our familial stories and our everyday lives. 

$105

Intro to Erasure with Jennifer Steinorth

Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United States

Are you plagued by stress, fatigue and increased screen time? Many artists and writers feel blocked. Working with found materials can help penetrate blocks and reclaim agency. 

Through erasure, we are able to take existing text and blackout, erase, and obscure what is already written to create a whole new text that talks back to history, institutions, news media, departed souls, and any force that threatens to silence us.   

$100

The Songwriting Master Class: Better Lyrics… Better Stories… Better Songs with Nathan Brown

Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United States

This workshop deals with finding a song’s “main goal,” its central theme, and then explores the various ways we can “drive home” that story for other listeners to appreciate. We’ll take a look at the inner workings of several song forms and structures so we can better understand how to apply our particular stories to those classic structures.

$135

Fuerza-Writing: Developing Performance Text with Marisela Barrera

Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United States

Learn how to turn everyday source material into a final performance. In this four-week workshop, we'll discuss verbatim theater (theater based on people's spoken words), devised performance (collaborative, often improvised work), and adapting your original short stories or poems into plays. We'll practice examples of each. You'll be asked to commit to developing one performance text to be shared in a public reading. 

$140

6-Minute Memoir with Mary Helen Stefaniak

Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United States

Write one or more brief memoirs (i.e., a nonfiction piece up to 1200 words in lengt) that vividly presents and explores the meaning of a particular past experience. 

$140

Musicality and the Long Poem with Allison Hedge Coke

Online via Zoom

 In this workshop led by American Book Award winner Allison Hedge Coke, we will study musical genres, influences, and elements that will develop our knowledge of structure and momentum so that we can infuse our lines with lyricism, sound, and rhythm from beginning to end. 

$140

Diving into the Weird with Leticia Urieta

Are you a storyteller? Have you ever considered how to push the boundaries of what storytelling could be? Ever wondered what blending genres of horror, folktales and traditional stories, as well as magical imaginings, could mean for your work? In this generative writing workshop for adults 16+, we will explore short stories, poems and hybrid pieces that unlock the strange, the magical, the grotesque, and the beautiful that we find in our everyday lives. You will have the opportunity to find the weird in the ordinary, explore traditional stories and urban legends, and reimagine realities.

$150

Teen Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson

Blue Star 116 Blue Star, San Antonio, Texas

Student Artists will create an original work of visual art and author an original poem as they explore Ekphrastic Poetry for National Poetry Month. This special series of workshops will be led by San Antonio’s Poet Laureate, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, in partnership with Gemini Ink. Open to High School Students. Free to apply.

Free

Creating Fictional Characters with Personality and Presence with Johnnie Bernhard

What separates memorable characters from forgettable ones? What about a character that will make you invest in their journey or root for their downfall?

In this workshop, we will discuss what grabs a reader's attention and draws them to a character. Writers will develop authentic fictional characters with the building blocks of character development: physical description, dialogue, and action. But we won’t stop there! We will explore the history, psychology, weaknesses, and motives that keep the reader hooked.  

$115