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SUMMARY:Poets & Coffee with Alexandra van de Kamp
DESCRIPTION:Coffee. Poetry. Conversation.\nJoin Alexandra van de Kamp for an informal gathering focused on the poems and poets shaping today’s literary landscape. \nCome listen\, share\, and connect. \nYou’ll leave with new poems to read and prompts to keep writing. \n\n​​Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink\, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center. Her third book of poems\, Ricochet Script\, was published by Next Page Press in 2022. ​​Her previous full-length collections include: Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010). She has also published several chapbooks\, including A Liquid Bird Inside the Night (Red Glass Books 2015) and Dear Jean Seberg (2011)\, which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide\, such as The Cincinnati Review\, Connecticut Review\, The Texas Observer\, and Denver Quarterly.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poets-coffee-with-alexandra-v/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink
CATEGORIES:Event
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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 more than 15 years. After studying History in graduate school\, he spent several years working in conservation programs with teenagers. His time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of combining creativity with learning and inspired him to explore his own creative practice. In addition to his longtime love of storytelling\, he has developed interests in calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he spends his free time exploring the crystalline waters of Central Texas. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-07-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260727T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260727T203000
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SUMMARY:Open Writers' 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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-07-27/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260808T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260808T140000
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SUMMARY:Dig Into Your Subconscious to Enliven Your Writing with Carmen Calatayud
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Aug 8\n10am – 2pm CT\, In-person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Educ/Mil: $70\n*EARN CPEs; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \nClass Full\n\nThe subconscious mind is a hidden vault that holds our deepest motives\, feelings\, and beliefs. It is also the cradle of dreams\, where meaning emerges and creativity takes shape. So what if we tapped  into this inner world to unlock a richer\, more profound artistic expression? \nIn this one-day workshop\, we will use guided writing exercises and meditative prompts to quiet the inner critic and awaken the intuitive voice that lies just beneath the surface of everyday thought. Through the study of surrealist writers\, we will explore how symbols\, images and fragments from the subconscious can transform into powerful narratives. Whether you write poetry\, fiction or creative nonfiction\, this workshop provides practical tools to write from emotional truth and psychological depth. Come prepared to dig into your fertile inner landscape\, using dreams\, intuition and memory as seeds for evocative storytelling. \nThis workshop is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nStudents will leave this course with the following:\n\nAn understanding of how the subconscious mind can galvanize writing\nStrategies for connecting with body sensations and imagery to access deeper\, archetypal truths\nSeveral pieces of new writing that open up to unexpected places\n\n\nCarmen Calatayud is a poet\, nonfiction writer and psychotherapist who is fascinated by the subconscious and the surreal. She is the author of two poetry collections: This Tangled Body (FlowerSong Press/Letras Latinas\, 2024) and In the Company of Spirits (Press 53\, 2012)\, a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including POETRY Magazine\, Poet Lore\, Rogue Agent\, Tahoma Literary Journal and Verse Daily. She is a Larry Neal Award Winner\, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow\, and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Calatayud is on the editorial staff of The Skinny Poetry Journal. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/dig-into-your-subconscious/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260811T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260811T200000
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SUMMARY:Finding the Fire: Revising and Revisioning the Poem
DESCRIPTION:Literary Masters Lecture Series\nTue\, Aug 11 & 18\n6:30-8pm CT via Zoom\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Educ/Mil: $63\n*EARN CPEs\n \n \n  \nWant to turn your cold first draft into a hot work of literary art?  Your first draft is the fodder. Your revision process applies the heat. The outcome is one blazing poem. Join former San Antonio and Texas Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero for a workshop where she walks us through her process for refining her poems. \nIn this two-part lecture\, Laurie Ann Guerrero will offer insight into her process of revising and revisioning poems—listening for urgency\, clarifying imagery\, and taking creative risks. Participants will learn her revision sequence and then participants will each workshop one short poem of their own in an atmosphere of generous\, serious attention. Participants are encouraged to bring a poem (no longer than one page) to revise on the spot. \nThis lecture is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nIn this lecture\, students will leave with the following:\n\nLearn revision techniques that re-envision their work\nRevise one piece of their own written work on the spot\nLeave this lecture with revision tools that can be used at home\n\n\nPoet\, essayist\, and visual artist\, Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio and is the author of REDWORK\, winner of the 2025 Autumn House Poetry Award\, forthcoming in October 2026. Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2014-16) and Texas (2016-2017)\, her award-winning collections\, along with a volume of new & selected poems\, include Babies under the Skin (Panhandler 2008)\, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press 2013)\, A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre Press 2015)\, and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New & Selected Poems (TCU Press 2021). Guerrero holds degrees from Smith College and Drew University. She is an Associate Professor and the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio where she teaches writing\, cultural\, and gender studies. She is currently at work on a novel. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/finding-the-fire/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260819T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk Featuring Deb Olin Unferth
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 19\, 2026\, via Zoom for a conversation with Deb Olin Unferth\, to discuss her new book\, Earth 7: A Novel (Graywolf Press).\n\n\n(Virtual Readings Quarterly @ 7pm CST) \n\n\nRSVP \nDeb Olin Unferth’s latest novel\, Earth 7\, is a bold and imaginative work of climate fiction that explores love\, survival\, and what remains of humanity on a nearly uninhabitable planet. As Earth sits on the brink\, two unlikely figures—a woman raised in an ocean pod and another who may be a robot—form a connection in a world where some have fled to Mars and others seek digital immortality. At once poetic\, strange\, and deeply human\, Earth 7 moves from the vast edges of the cosmos to the microscopic\, asking urgent questions about consciousness\, technology\, and what it means to endure. \n\nAbout the Author\nDeb Olin Unferth is the author of seven books\, including Barn 8 and Wait Till You See Me Dance. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and four Pushcart Prizes\, and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her work has appeared in Harper’s\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, and McSweeney’s. \n\nAbout the Moderator\nFernando A. Flores was born in Reynosa\, Tamaulipas\, Mexico\, and grew up in the South Texas borderlands. He is the author of the collections Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas and Valleyesque\, along with the novels Tears of the Trufflepig and Brother Brontë\, which was one of Kirkus’ Best of Fiction 2025 and longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction. He lives in Austin\, Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-featuring-deb-olin-unferth/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260819T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260819T203000
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SUMMARY:Veterans' Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veterans’ 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-08-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260820T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260820T200000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20260326T192814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260806T172023Z
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SUMMARY:Open Writers’ Lab Reading & Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink as we celebrate the literary artistry of our Open Writers’ Lab members with a community reading and open mic.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-reading/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260822T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260822T170000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20260618T145844Z
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SUMMARY:Voices of San Anto Workshop with Marisela Barrera
DESCRIPTION:Register\nWhether it’s that funny anecdote you share at parties or an event that changed your life\, we want to help you bring your story to life.\nJoin writer and performer Marisela Barrera for a free\, two-session bilingual storytelling workshop at the San Antonio Public Library. \nWorkshop participants will craft a 5-7-minute story about a significant moment in their lives and present it at a live storytelling show. \n\nAttendance at all three sessions is mandatory.\nWorkshop dates: Sat\, Aug 22 & Aug 29\, 2026\, 1-5pmFinal Celebration: Sep 5\, 2-4pm \n\nRegistration is required.\nSpace is limited to 15!\nPlease email Sarah.DeLaRosa@sanantonio.gov to request being added to the waitlist.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/voices-of-san-anto-marisela-barrera/
LOCATION:Igo Branch Library\, 13330 Kyle Seale Pkwy\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78249
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Catherine Burianek":MAILTO:cburianek@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260829T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260829T133000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T154250Z
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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 more than 15 years. After studying History in graduate school\, he spent several years working in conservation programs with teenagers. His time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of combining creativity with learning and inspired him to explore his own creative practice. In addition to his longtime love of storytelling\, he has developed interests in calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he spends his free time exploring the crystalline waters of Central Texas. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-08-29/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260831T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260831T203000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
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SUMMARY:Open Writers' 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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-08-31/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260905T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260905T160000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
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SUMMARY:Voices of San Anto Storytelling Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Participants gather during a Voices of San Anto bilingual storytelling workshop led by Marisela Barrera in 2025. \nJoin Gemini Ink and the San Antonio Public Library for an afternoon of live bilingual storytelling featuring local San Antonio storytellers. \nOver the past several weeks\, community members from across San Antonio have worked with writer and performer Marisela Barrera to craft original stories rooted in family history\, neighborhood memory\, music\, identity\, immigration\, friendship\, and everyday life in San Antonio. This final celebration brings those stories to the stage in English and Spanish. \nVoices of San Anto is a free bilingual storytelling workshop series presented in partnership with the San Antonio Public Library and designed to help local residents shape and share their personal stories in a welcoming community setting. \nEvent Details\nFree and open to the public.\nSaturday\, Sep 5\, 2026\n2–4pm \nIgo Branch Library\n13330 Kyle Seale Pkwy\nSan Antonio\, TX 78249 \nPresented by Gemini Ink and the San Antonio Public Library. \n\nAbout Voices of San Anto\nSince 2023\, Gemini Ink has partnered with the San Antonio Public Library to offer free bilingual storytelling workshops led by local writers and performers including Daniel Ramirez\, Marisela Barrera\, Eddie Vega\, and Chibbi Orduna. \nParticipants develop original 5–7 minute stories and share them during a live public celebration with family\, friends\, and the community.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/vosa-storytelling-showcase-2/
LOCATION:Schaefer Library\, 6322 US Hwy. 87 E.\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78222
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Catherine Burianek":MAILTO:cburianek@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260909T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260909T200000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: Art Above Everything
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read Art Above Everything by Stephanie Elizondo Griest.\n \n\n\n\n  \n\nA new kind of travel writing.\n— Booklist\n…a potent testament to the value of pursuing one’s passion.\n— Publishers Weekly\nA global exploration of what it means to choose a creative life.\nAll artists struggle. But women are especially pushed to give up their creative ambitions\, from societal disapproval against “selfishness” to the pressure (or desire) for children and economic stability. Throughout her 20s and 30s\, Stephanie Elizondo Griest wondered if constantly prioritizing her writing over everything else was leading her to fulfillment or regret. After a brutal break-up and narrowly surviving a health crisis in her early 40s\, she turned to other women for their perspectives on that haunting question: is art enough? \nArt Above Everything documents her travels to 10 nations—from Cuba to Iceland; Rwanda to Qatar—where she meets with legendary painters\, poets\, actors\, dancers\, and musicians who talk intimately about their art\, both what it gifts them and what it costs them. Collectively\, these artists speak dozens of languages and worship a spectrum of faiths\, but their compulsions to create despite financial hardship\, misogyny\, sexual violence\, and family ostracization are wholly akin. Bold and inspiring\, Art Above Everything illuminates the ways we can wield creativity as a vitalizing force. \n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephanie Elizondo Griest is a globetrotting author from the Texas/Mexico borderlands and the author of six books\, including Around the Bloc\, Mexican Enough\, All the Agents and Saints\, and Art Above Everything. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, VQR\, The Believer\, BBC\, Orion\, Lit Hub\, and Oxford American\, and has earned a Margolis Award\, a PEN Southwest Book Award\, an International Latino Book Award\, and two Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism prizes. \nShe is currently Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She has traveled to 50 countries and 49 states\, is a cancer survivor now in remission\, and recently endowed Testimonios Fronterizos\, a research grant for borderlands student journalists at the University of Texas at Austin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-art-above-everything/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260910T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260910T200000
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SUMMARY:Read Like a Writer with Bestselling Author Laura Castoro
DESCRIPTION:Thu\, Sep 10\, 17\, 24\, & Oct 1\n6:30-8:30pm CT via Zoom\nNonmember: $200; Member: $170; Student/Educ/Mil: $140\n*EARN CPEs; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \n \n  \nHave you ever read a great book that grabbed you from the first page and wondered\, “How did the author do that?” Reading can be a writer’s greatest teacher\, but it requires a shift in how you approach a text. Train your eye for literary craft with bestselling author Laura Castoro and learn to read the way writers do. \nIn this four-week workshop\, we will use close reading to examine how the writing pros achieve enviable work. We will explore how to read more deeply so we can deconstruct how the author sets the mood\, adheres to or manipulates conventions\, and plays with boundaries. In each session\, we will use excerpts from popular fiction books and short writing prompts to stimulate our imagination and inspire new written work.   \nThis course is open to adult writers of all skill levels.  \nIn this course students will:\n\nExplore how to effectively set the mood of a story to the draw the reader in\nIdentify how writers manipulate conventions and play with boundaries\nLearn what is and is not important to the reader\nImmediately apply concepts using short\, generative writing prompts\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\, Harper Collins\, St. 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. Laura 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. Email: Laurapcastoro@gmail.com. website: www.ddayres.com
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/read-like-a-writer-with-laura-castoro/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260912T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260912T150000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
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SUMMARY:Diving into the Kiddie Pool: Writing for Picture Books with Diane Bertrand
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Sep 12\n10am-3pm CT\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $125; Member: $108; Student/Educ/Mil: $88\n*EARN CPEs; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n \n  \nDo you have a family story\, childhood memory\, narrative poem\, or concept that inspires an idea for a picture book? Let’s share a creative journey into writing for children! \nIn this one-day workshop\, adult writers will look at storybooks and discuss what works and what doesn’t work. We’ll explore how successful children’s authors build characters\, develop story arcs\, create page turners\, and play with language. We will discuss the balance between engaging children and impressing an editor.  Then\, we will revise drafts of our own work\, rethinking character\, structure\, and vocabulary.  \nBring your first draft and 1-2 picture books similar to the style you envision for your story. This course is open to writers of all skill levels\, 18+.  \nStudents will leave this class with:\n\nA new and/or revised draft of a picture book story\nAn understanding of the characters\, story frames and voice unique to picture books\nA list of books\, websites\, & organizations that publish picture books\n\n\n\n \nDiane Gonzales Bertrand is the author of twelve bilingual picture books including the award-winning My Pal Victor\, The Party for Papá Luis\, Cecilia and Miguel are Best Friends\, and The Story Circle. She retired from her position as Writer-in-Residence for the English Department at St. Mary’s University in 2021.  A new picture book\, Music Rides the Bus\, is forthcoming in 2027 from Piñata Books. (Arte Público Press\, Houston\, TX   www.artepublicopress.com)
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/diving-into-the-kiddie-pool-writing-for-picture-books-with-diane-bertrand/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260915T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260915T200000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20260812T202923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T203005Z
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SUMMARY:Writing the Difficult From a Reservoir of Love with Brian Turner
DESCRIPTION:Literary Masters Lecture Series\nTue\, Sep 15 & 22\n6:30-8pm CT via Zoom\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Educ/Mil: $63\n*EARN CPEs;SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n \n  \nJoin us for the first Literary Masters Lecture of the fall as we explore how to write about life’s most difficult experiences from a reservoir of love. Each session features an engaging craft talk\, ready-to-use writing strategies\, and a live Q&A with the author. \nIn this two-part intensive\, award-winning poet and memoirist Brian Turner will share techniques for transforming painful experiences into meaningful\, resonant writing. Through craft-focused lessons\, you’ll learn how to approach challenging subjects with a broader\, more grounded perspective that honors the humanity of the story. Participants will receive additional writing exercises to continue developing their work after the lecture series ends. This lecture is open to writers of all genres and skill levels 18+. \nParticipants will leave this lecture with:\n\nCraft-based strategies for writing about loss and other challenging topics\nA sense of what it means to sit with the art\nA series of writing prompts to work on at home following the lecture\n\n\nBrian Turner is the author of five collections of poetry (from Here\, Bullet to The Wild Delight of Wild Things) and a memoir (My Life as a Foreign Country). He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, National Geographic\, and Harper’s\, among other fine journals\, and he was featured in the documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience\, nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow\, he’s received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature\, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship\, the Poets’ Prize\, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.   \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/reservoir-of-love-with-brian-turner/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260916T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260916T203000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T183642Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans' Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veterans’ 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-09-16/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260926T133000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20241125T170232Z
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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 more than 15 years. After studying History in graduate school\, he spent several years working in conservation programs with teenagers. His time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of combining creativity with learning and inspired him to explore his own creative practice. In addition to his longtime love of storytelling\, he has developed interests in calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he spends his free time exploring the crystalline waters of Central Texas. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-09-26/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260928T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260928T203000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20191105T141203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260423T145605Z
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SUMMARY:Open Writers' 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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-09-28/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261002T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261002T150000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20260812T202816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T202816Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Dangerous Times: From Witness to Resistance with Demetria Martínez & Dr. Norma E. Cantú
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Oct 2\n10am – 3pm CT\, In-person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $125; Member: $108; Student/Educ/Mil: $88\n*EARN CPEs; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \n \n  \nThe practice of poetry\, both as readers and writers\, is crucial during times of injustice when our creative voices are the only tool we have to demand change.  \nDuring this one-day retreat\, we will explore poets who have not only borne witness to injustice\, but who have done so from a place of hope and resistance–including Joy Harjo\, Martin Espada\, Assata Shakur\, Hiba Abu Nada\, Daisy Zamora\, William Stafford and Susan Sherman among others. We will also read Demetria’s poem\, “Nativity: For Two Salvadoran Women.” Join us as we build a “portfolio” of work to sustain and nourish our vision and activism in these times.  \nStudents will be invited to read their work at a Hispanic Heritage Month 2026 reading and open mic featuring                                               Demetria Martínez and Dr. Norma Cantú the fol                                                                                                   lowing day. \nThis course is open to writers of all skill levels\, 18+.  \nStudents will leave this course with:\n\nStrategies for using poetry as a tool of resistance\nA small collection of poetic pieces \nAn opportunity to share their writing at a reading the next day\n\n\n\nDemetria Martínez is a poet\, writer and immigrant rights activist born and raised in Albuquerque.  Her most recent book\, Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women\, Two Worlds\, was coauthored with Susan Sherman and published by Casa Urraca Press. It opens with a dialogue about art and activism among other topics and follows with a selection of poetry. Martínez’s other books include the widely translated novel\, Mother Tongue (Ballantine)\, set in New Mexico during the Sanctuary Movement.  The book was inspired by her 1987 indictment on charges of conspiracy against the United States in connection with allegedly transporting Central American refugees into the country. Martínez\, a religion reporter covering the Movement for the National Catholic Reporter and the Albuquerque Journal\, was facing a potential 25 years in prison. She was tried and acquitted on First Amendment grounds—but not before the government attempted to use her poetry against her. Her other books include collections of poetry\, short stories and columns. She is the recipient of a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature\, an American Book Award and an International Latino Book Award. Martinez facilitates retreats\, Poetry in Dangerous Times: From Witness to Resistance. She lives with her wife\, their hens and goats\, in La Cienega\, New Mexico.  \n  \nAward winning poet and author\, Dr. Norma Elia Cantú was born in Nuevo Laredo\, Tamaulipas to a Tejana mother and a Mexicano father. She began her academic career over fifty years ago as a  teaching assistant at what is now Texas A&M University\, Kingsville\, where she earned her MA in English. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska\, Lincoln\, and taught at what is now Texas A&M International University in Laredo\, at the University of Texas\, San Antonio and the University of Missouri\, Kansas City. She was at the National Endowment for the Arts in the Folk and Traditional Arts Program\, and she was a visiting Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She currently serves as the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio\, where she teaches courses in Latinx Studies\, Folklore\, and Creative Writing. Her creative writing focuses on the US-Mexico Border and includes her novels Canícula and Cabañuelas as well as a poetry collection\, Meditación fronteriza. She has edited and coedited over twelve anthologies. Her most recent publication is the anthology Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetry-in-dangerous-times-from-witness-to-resistance-with-demetria-martinez-dr-norma-e-cantu/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261006T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261006T203000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20260812T201938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T202000Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing for Newbies with Christen Barrón
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday(s)\, October 6\, 13\, 20\, & 27\n6:30–8:30pm CT\, Hybrid (online via Zoom and in-person at Gemini Ink)\nNonmember: $200; Member: $170; Student/Educ/Mil: $140\n*EARN CPEs; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \n \n  \nDo you want to explore creative writing but don’t know where to begin? Are you unsure if you want to try poetry\, fiction\, or anything else? Take this creative writing sampler for newbies and  reconnect with your self expression! \nIn this hands-on writing workshop\, participants will receive a gentle\, fun introduction into creative writing and opportunities to dabble in poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction to see which one resonates most. This course is perfect for beginners or anyone looking to rediscover their creativity. At each interactive session\, participants will generate new writing and will be encouraged to share their work with others. \nThis course is open to writers of all backgrounds and skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this workshop with:\n\nan understanding of the three main creative writing genres \nnew writing in three genres (poetry\, creative nonfiction\, and fiction)\nstrategies and techniques for accessing creativity and overcoming writer’s block\nresources for continuing a creative writing practice in any genre of choice\n\n\nChristen Barrón is a creative nonfiction writer\, editor\, and writing instructor. Originally from Savannah\, Georgia\, Christen holds an M.F.A. in Writing and a B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). She currently teaches first-year writing and creative writing at Texas A&M-University San Antonio. For nearly a decade\, Christen taught community creative writing classes for The Deep Center’s nationally-recognized Young Author Project and she has served as a Teaching Artist for Gemini Ink since 2017. Christen’s writing has appeared in YARN Literary Review\, Black Fox Literary Magazine\, Document\, and The Journal of Writing Assessment. She is a faculty supervising editor for Mosaic\, a student-led literary magazine at Texas A&M-University San Antonio. 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/creative-writing-for-newbies-with-christen-barron/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261010T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261010T143000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20260812T201052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T201052Z
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SUMMARY:From Observation to Discovery: Writing Personal Essays on Art with Jehanne Dubrow
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, October 10\n10am – 2:30pm CT (with a 30 minute lunch)\, via Zoom\nNonmember: $120; Member: $100; Student/Educ/Mil: $84\n*EARN CPEs; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \n  \n \n  \nSharpen your powers of observation through ekphrasis! By closely examining works of art and writing in response to them\, you’ll discover new ways of seeing artwork\, yourself\, and the world around you. Discover how ekphrasis offers a visual springboard for unlocking stories and insights we didn’t even know existed inside of us. \nIn this one-day course\, participants will read examples of ekphrastic writing from across genres and learn how to research the history of an art piece. Through guided writing exercises\, we’ll write about our art discoveries while engaging the five senses and using concrete\, specific details. Participants will then weave their description\, research\, and a personal experience together to generate an ekphrastic personal essay. \nStudents should come to class with an image of a piece of art that has personal meaning to them. This course is open to writers of all genres and skill level\, 18+.  \nStudents will leave this class with:\n\nA first draft of an essay that engages with a work of art\nAn understanding of how ekphrasis can be used to break through writer’s block\nConcrete strategies for blending research with personal stories\n\n\nJehanne Dubrow is the author of three books of nonfiction\, ten poetry collections\, and a craft book. Her book-length essay\, Frivolity: A Defense\, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in fall 2026. Her writing has appeared in numerous literary journals\, including New England Review\, Southern Review\, and Ploughshares. She is a Distinguished Research Professor and a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/from-observationpersonal-essays-on-art-with-jehanne-dubrow/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261014T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261014T200000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20260603T201910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260603T202709Z
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: The Awakening
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read The Awakening by Kate Chopin.\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n“The great power of The Awakening resides not in the answers it provides\, but in the questions it exposes.”  —Washington Post \n“Kate Chopin . . . smoked and went hatless and played cards into the small hours; she wrote stories about venereal disease\, adultery\, divorce and the ‘monstrous joy’ of widowhood . . . scandalous in her own age; held up as a heroine by feminists of the Seventies.”  —Observer\nFirst published in 1899\, this beautiful\, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward.\nOn vacation in Grand Isle\, Louisiana\, a married woman falls in love with a charming\, attentive young man. The relationship spurs Edna Pontellier to explore her longing for independence and creative fulfillment. It also compels her to defy conventions\, rejecting the constraints of marriage and motherhood. \nFirst published in 1899\, this beautiful\, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired\, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of women’s emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman’s abandonment of her family\, her seduction\, and her awakening to desires and passions that threatened to consumer her. Originally entitled A Solitary Soul\, this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction\, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. \n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in St. Louis\, Kate Chopin (1850-1904) moved to Louisiana to marry the son of a cotton grower. A mother of six by the age of twenty-eight and a widow at thirty-two\, she turned to writing to support her young family. She is best known today for The Awakening (1899)\, a portrait of marriage and motherhood so controversial it fell out of print shortly after publication and was not rediscovered until the 1960s. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-the-awakening/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261021T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261021T203000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
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SUMMARY:Veterans' Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veterans’ 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-10-21/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261026T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261026T200000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20260812T201721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T201721Z
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SUMMARY:Truth as a Poet's Raw Material with Kathy Fagan
DESCRIPTION:Literary Masters Lecture Series\nMon\, October 26\n6:30–8pm CT\, In-person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $70; Member: $60; Student/Educ/Mil: $49\n*EARN CPEs; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \n \n  \nJoin us for this special Literary Masters Lecture and learn strategies for bringing truth to your work! This event will feature an engaging craft talk\, actionable writing strategies\, and a live Q&A with the author. \nIn this lecture\, award-winning poet Kathy Fagan will lead a discussion on how weaving the narrative and the lyrical\, the personal and the political\, the autobiographical and the historical can crystallize truth. We will explore three\, often overlapping\, truth-telling elements: fact-based research\, documentary poetics\, and deeply personal experiences. Participants will leave with craft tools they can practice on their own after the lecture. \nAfter class\, Kathy Fagan will read from her new book\, The Unbecoming (W.W.Norton\, 2026). The Twig Book Store will provide copies of Kathy’s book for sale.  \nThis lecture is open to writers of all genres and skill levels 18+. \nParticipants will leave this class with:\n\nFamiliarity with types of truth-telling in poetry\nExamples of how truth can be delivered in a poem\nStrategies for composing poems with autobiographical\, historical\, and/or documentary-like details\n\n\nKathy Fagan’s newest collection\, The Unbecoming (W.W. Norton\, September 2026)\, is available for preorder now. Her sixth book\, winner of Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Poetry Prize\, is Bad Hobby (Milkweed Editions\, 2022)\, available in print and audio. Sycamore (Milkweed\, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Award. Fagan is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow\, former NEA recipient\, and longtime educator. You can find her in her poems\, at her website\, and in a very tiny olive grove in Tuscany. Her first book won The National Poetry Series in 1984. Fagan is Professor Emerita of The Ohio State University\, where she co-founded and directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing while co-editing The Journal and its poetry book prize for OSU Press.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/truth-as-a-poets-raw-material-with-kathy-fagan/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261026T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261026T203000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20191105T141203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260423T145606Z
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SUMMARY:Open Writers' 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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-10-26/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20241125T170232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T154252Z
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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 more than 15 years. After studying History in graduate school\, he spent several years working in conservation programs with teenagers. His time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of combining creativity with learning and inspired him to explore his own creative practice. In addition to his longtime love of storytelling\, he has developed interests in calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he spends his free time exploring the crystalline waters of Central Texas. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-10-31/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261103T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261103T203000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20260812T201621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T201621Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Your Audience: A Guide to Book Launch Success with Violeta Garza
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Nov 3 & 10\n6:30pm–8:30pm CT\, Online via Zoom\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Educ/Mil: $70\n*EARN CPEs; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \n \n  \nYou published a book. Now what? Promoting your work can feel daunting if you have no marketing experience. Learn how to build a clear pre- and post-launch plan that will ensure your book finds its readers! \nIn this two-session workshop\, we will develop your brand; craft an elevator pitch; draft promotional materials for your new or forthcoming book\, or big book idea; and build a marketing plan. We will use Canva\, LinkTree\, Instagram\, and more. If you don’t have access to any of these platforms\, no worries\, you can still follow along and learn. Students will have the opportunity to create their own content and receive instructor and peer feedback.  \nThis course is for writers of all skill levels and genres with a new\, imagined\, or forthcoming collection of work\, 18+.  \nAs a student\, you will leave this class with:\n\nAn understanding of your own brand identity\nAn elevator pitch that gets potential readers excited about your work\nA plan of action for marketing and promoting your book in-person and online\n\n\nA multilingual poet\, educator\, and performance doula\, Violeta Garza is a classic middle child in a family of Mexican immigrants. She has performed her original poetry for Texas Public Radio\, The Alamo Chapter for Human Rights\, The Center for Refugee Services\, and elsewhere. She is a Macondo Writers Workshop fellow\, a Pushcart Prize nominee\, a Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest semifinalist\, and a Top Ten Debut Latine Author of 2025 on LatinoStories.com. Her bilingual collection of poetry\, BRAVA\, was published by First Matter Press\, and was featured on New York University’s Latinx Project list La Treintena: 30 Books of Latinx Poetry for 2026. For more info\, please visit violetagarza.com. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/book-launch-success-with-violeta-garza/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261111T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261111T200000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20260717T123759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260717T141045Z
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: The Death of Ivan Ilych & Spare Room
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we discuss The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy and Spare Room by Helen Garner.\n \n\n  \nNovember’s LitMinds selections pair two remarkable works that explore illness\, mortality\, and the relationships that shape our lives—one a timeless classic\, the other a modern literary masterpiece. \nThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy\nA masterpiece of world literature\, The Death of Ivan Ilych follows a respected judge who\, faced with a terminal illness\, is forced to confront the life he has built—and the life he may have missed. At once unsettling and deeply compassionate\, Tolstoy’s novella explores mortality\, meaning\, and the search for authenticity with remarkable clarity. More than a century after its publication\, it remains one of the most profound reflections on what it means to truly live. \nLeo Tolstoy (1828–1910) is one of the world’s most celebrated novelists\, best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His works continue to shape conversations about literature\, philosophy\, and the human condition. \n\nSpare Room by Helen Garner\nIn Spare Room\, acclaimed Australian writer Helen Garner tells the story of two longtime friends brought together under difficult circumstances when one arrives seeking alternative cancer treatment. What begins as an act of generosity becomes a powerful exploration of friendship\, caregiving\, hope\, and the emotional complexities of loving someone through illness. Written with honesty and emotional precision\, Spare Room is both intimate and unforgettable. \nHelen Garner is one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary writers\, known for her novels\, essays\, and nonfiction. Her work is celebrated for its psychological insight\, moral complexity\, and beautifully restrained prose. \n\n\nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-book-club-tolstoy-garner/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261118T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261118T203000
DTSTAMP:20260812T162811
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T183643Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans' Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veterans’ 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-11-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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