Veteran’s Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
The Veteran’s Writing Collective encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants...
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Open Writers Lab with Dario Beniquez and Robert Allen
Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United StatesThis peer-driven workshop, held the last Monday of each month, is open to writers of all levels. Facilitated by Gemini Ink volunteers Dario Beniquez and Robert Allen.
Free
The Big Texas Read
JOIN us at The Big Texas Read. We’ll be reading ONE work of prose or poetry written by a Texas author every 1-2 months from now until the bug is squashed! We’ll be with you from page one to “THE END” with our Zoom author chats and Q&A’s, scheduled every two weeks. Think of it as a big virtual book club, only you get to stay home, mix a cocktail, eat a big piece of chocolate cake, and snuggle up on the sofa.
Free
Anxiety into Art—A One-Day Poetry Workshop
Online via ZoomIn uncertain times, how have poets transformed their anxieties into art? Join Gemini Ink’s Executive Director for this generative class and explore how poets have created new spaces from which to witness the world, digest and reconsider their fears, and cultivate new sources of resilience. We will study a selection of 20th century and contemporary poets as they take on their worries. Participants will be encouraged to draft new works, and constructive feedback will be provided. We may not solve the world’s problems in a day, but we can discover writing techniques that embolden and refresh us as we continue to navigate unprecedented times.
$85.00
Nights of Noir – Jim Thompson’s The Getaway
Online via ZoomWelcome to the world of Noir, where the streets are dark with something more than night. Join us for a literary joyride through Texas and the West, down Park Avenue, and into the frigid Nordic landscape, a journey where the desperate and duplicitous encounter corruption, betrayal, and death - and no one comes out unscathed. Explore four timeless hardboiled classics: Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest, which started it all; Laura, The Getaway, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
$25.00
Holiday Virtual Open Mic: A Celebration of Our Voices
OnlineHang out with featured emcee Edward Vidaurre and a line-up of San Antonio literary talent, including Jenny Browne, Laura Van Prooyen, Jo Reyes-Boitel, Eddie Vega, Amanda Flores and Sheila Black as we cheer the end of 2020 and look with new energy to 2021. We’d also love to hear your work! An open mic follows our featured readers: poetry and prose welcome! Sign up to read one piece (or no more than 3 minutes). We can’t think of anything better to celebrate this year than the creative resilience and rich voices of our community.
Free
Deadline to Apply to 2021 Gemini Ink Mentorship Program
Back by popular demand, Gemini Ink is relaunching its mentorship program after a 2-year hiatus. We want to see your work in all its machinations and glory! Apply to the Gemini Ink 2020 Mentorship Program and be one of two writers chosen to work one-on-one with a nationally recognized author. The 2021 Mentorship will be dedicated to prose—fiction, nonfiction, essays, short stories, novels and more! We are delighted to announce that our mentor will be award-winning author and seasoned writing teacher Kurt Caswell.
Image, Tone and Voice: Let the Poetry of Louise Glück Be Our Guide
OnlineTake 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
The Big Texas Read featuring Andrea Vocab Sanderson
OnlineUnplug from the outside world and JOIN us at The Big Texas Read (TBTR) brought to you by Writing Workshops Dallas and Gemini Ink. This month we're reading and discussing Andrea Vocab Sanderson’s brilliant collection She Lives in Music.
Free
Writing for Heroic Power: Homer, Dante & Virgil in Light of Modern Realities with Charles Massiatte
Online via ZoomJoin 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
in Just-spring: A Literary Open House
Online via ZoomZoom virtual open house features teaching artists presenting include National Book Award finalist Reginald Gibbons, New York City poet Patricia Spears Jones, award-winning authors Jen Knox, Nan Cuba, Jasmine Mendez, Sarah Colby, and Gemini Ink board president Charles Massiatte. Our evening will culminate in a reading and Q&A with Chicana postmodernist writer and critic Norma Cantú.
Free
Literary Chat Box TX Fundraiser
Online via ZoomWe're thrilled to be a part of the Literary Chat Box TX Fundraiser edition with eight other literary organizations!: American Short Fiction, Arte Público Press, Austin Bat Cave, Deep Vellum, Inprint, Odessa Arts, The Writer's Garret, and the Writers' League of Texas. All proceeds are going to mutual aid groups in Texas helping people affected by last month's weather craziness.
$10