Writing for Change: How to Craft Effective Social Justice Articles with Sara Ramey

Online via Zoom

In this four-week course, experienced social justice advocate Sara Ramey will combine lecture and group discussion to help participants gain an overview of writing effective social justice articles. Participants will learn how to understand key content and structure considerations, achieve the right tone and pacing, select the best format based on the topic, consider their audiences to maximize impact, and use one's goal to derive the highest impact from an article. 

$160

LitMinds: A Book Club at Gemini Ink

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

Join us for the Lit Minds Book Club. We're reading Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Register...

Free

Telling Stories from the Teaching Trenches with Amie Charney

Online via Zoom

In this one-day storytelling workshop for educators of all backgrounds and experience, we will follow the The Moth model of storytelling to script and tell our own creative nonfiction stories. We will then use podcasting technology to record our tales from the teaching trenches. 

$140

The Big Give SA 2024

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

Donate Now This year, all donations from The Big Give are in support of the...

Free
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 Ayokunle Falomo

Online via Zoom

Up Next: AYOKUNLE FALOMO, author of Autobiomythography of .

AYOKUNLE FALOMO is Nigerian, American, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books, 2024), AFRICANAMERICAN’T (FlowerSong Press, 2022—finalist for Texas Institute of Letters’ Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry), two self-published collections and African, American (New Delta Review, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review’s 8th annual chapbook contest). A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry, his work has been anthologized and widely published.

Free

Eddie Vega & Friends & Community Open Mic

Poetic Republic Coffee Co. 2330 S. Presa St, San Antonio, Texas, United States

Join Gemini Ink on Thursday, September 26th, for a night of poetry and performance as...

Free
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

Funny Bones: Craft a Calavera Poem with San Antonio Legend Anthony Flores

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

In this two-session workshop led by Anthony “The Poet” Flores, we will learn the history of the traditional Mexican calavera poem; compose our own Day Of The Dead creations; and apply literary devices, such as irony, rhyme, and repetition, to take our piece to the next level. We will leave the workshop with a list of places to read our new poems around town during the holiday celebration.

$110

Delving into the Celtic Isles: Inspiration from International Poets with Veronica Golos

Online via Zoom

In this four-week generative poetry workshop we will explore rhythm, rhyme, humor, and the rich history of celtic ancestry with four Irish poets: Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Medbh McGuckian, Eavan Boland, and Seamus Heaney. We will read deeply each week, explore each poet’s craft tools, and apply these techniques to our work. Participants will receive a packet with poems and suggestions for developing their writing. 

$155