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Get Back in Full Swing: Gemini Ink’s Literary Open House  

We are excited to introduce the dynamic roster of teaching artists working with us this year. Connect with some of San Antonio’s most talented writers as they share new work and discuss the classes they’ll be teaching. Featured writers include poet and award-winning memoirist Kendra Allen; award-winning poet and Sun Poets Society founder Rod Carlos Rodriguez; haiku champion, storyteller, and Taco-Poet of Texas, Eddie Vega; and 2020-2023 San Antonio Poet Laureate and Hip-Hop artist Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson. We can't wait for our creative community to inspire you!

Free
Recurring

Open Writers’ Labs

Online via Zoom

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.

Free

Reading Deeply, Writing Deeply: 3 Women Poets Talk to the Gods with Veronica Golos

Online

Whether a writer is talking directly to God or using religious reflection to try and make sense of humanity, poetry is shrouded in spiritual mystery and is often used to explore both concrete and intangible concepts of a higher power.

In this three-week workshop, we will study impactful poems from three women poets who invoke ideas of God or the gods. Louise Gluck’s book The Wild Iris enlists flowers from the garden of eden to help tell a story. Lucille Clifton’s “brothers” is an eight-poem conversation between an aged Lucifer and God. Natalia Toledo’s body of written work speaks to the Zapotec gods in three languages: Zapotec, Spanish, and English.

$145

Gemini Ink in Seattle for AWP!

Seattle Convention Center 705 Pike St, Seattle, Washington

Dear Writers & Readers, If you're in Seattle for AWP, we'd love to see/meet you....

Recurring

Veteran’s Writing Collective with Sarah Colby

Online via Zoom

The Veteran’s Writing Collective 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.

Free

The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Leticia Urieta

Online via Zoom

Join us for a free author talk & discussion with Leticia Urieta, author of Las Criaturas. This session will be moderated by jo reyes-boitel, a poet, essayist, and playwright.
In Las Criaturas, Leticia Urieta hones the conventions of folklore and mythology to center girls & women in a present context. Otherworldly and musical, Las Criaturas positions the monstrous as a form of power and place of refuge, firmly asking readers the pertinent questions: “Who creates the monsters? How do las criaturas that pervade our past, present, and future find justice?” Urieta has gifted us a daring and playful new work that points us in the right direction.
–Reyes Ramirez, author of The Book of Wanderers

Free

Deadline to apply to the 2023 Bexar County Arts Internship

Assist the Director of Programs in revamping Gemini Ink’s Autograph Series, which presents writers of national and international stature—many of them recipients of major prizes such as the Pulitzer or National Book Award. The internship is open to currently enrolled undergraduate college students who are Bexar County residents attending a college or university in Bexar County or outside of the county, as long as the student is a resident of Bexar County and able to show proof of the same.

Free

How to Get Yourself Out on Social Media for Busy Writers with Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson and Zach Jewell

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

Are you a busy writer seeking balance between a hectic writing life and building a network of social media supporters? Want to get to know your followers but just can’t find the time?

2020-2023 San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson and social media expert Zach Jewell are teaming up to share insider secrets for creating engaging, writing-related social media content that will keep your followers up-to-date and involved with you as a writer and human being.

$140
Recurring

Open Writer’s Labs

Online via Zoom

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.

Free

All Things Are Alive: Animating the Inanimate–Puppetry for Writers with Mobi Warren

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

Are you looking for a different way to tap into your creativity? Are you ready to experience the curiosity, wonder, and empathy that puppetry naturally inspires? Under the guidance of puppeteer and poet Mobi Warren, workshop participants will build a simple hand puppet from paper mâché and cloth, and breathe life into the personality that emerges. The process may culminate in a poem, a short prose piece, or a monologue puppet script. Participants will be encouraged to sense the livingness in the materials used and to explore unexpected insights that emerge as the puppet acquires form. No puppetry experience is required to attend this workshop, and writers of all levels are welcome.  

$145