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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-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-11-28/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-11-30/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Fun with Forms: An Intermediate Poetry Workshop with Jonathan Fletcher
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, Nov 30 & Dec 7\, 14\, & 21\n6:30–8:30pm CT\, In-person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $200; Member: $170; Student/Educ/Mil: $140\n*EARN CPEs; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \n \n  \nAre you a poet with a regular writing practice? Are you looking for new craft tools to add to your poetic toolbox? Join us for this intermediate workshop and dive deep into form poetry! \nIn this four-week class\, we will review the history of poetry\, study contemporary poets and their craft\, and explore advanced poetic forms\, including ghazal\, pantoum\, sestina\, sonnet\, and more. Using these new texts and forms for inspiration\, we will write and give poetic shape to our own experiences and dreams. Participants will receive light feedback and resources to keep them writing.  \nThis course is open to poets with a regular writing practice\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this class with:\n\nKnowledge of intermediate contemporary poetry and craft tools\nDrafts of work generated from class readings\, discussions\, and prompts\nResources and materials to further their own study and poetic work\n\n\nJonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts.  His work has been featured in numerous literary journals and magazines\, and he has won or placed in various literary contests.  A Pushcart Prize\, Best of the Net\, and Best Microfiction nominee\, he won Northwestern University Press’s Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize contest in 2023\, for which his debut chapbook\, This is My Body\, was published in 2025.  Currently\, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow and lives in San Antonio\, Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/intermediate-poetry-workshop-with-jonathan-fletcher/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-12-16/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Natalia Treviño
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 19\, 2026\, via Zoom for a conversation with Natalia Treviño\, to discuss her new poetry collection\, When You Were Human (Flowersong Press).\n\n\n(Virtual Readings Quarterly @ 7pm CST) \n\n\nRSVP \nThis collection of poetry offers readers multiple entry points to discover the Virgin Mary— as the miraculous mother of God and as the archetypal spiritual mother of all. By examining how Mary is introduced to us through prayer candles\, car air-fresheners\, ritual prayer\, legend\, and high art\, this collection attempts to understand the devotions to Mary that unite people all over the world\, especially in Mexico. Mary has over twenty-two thousand identities world-wide\, but this collection only scratches the surface of those stories focusing on her as the unifying Virgin of Guadalupe\, La Virgen de San Juan de Los Lagos\, and La Virgen de San Juan del Valle\, and these poems meditate on her role as the compassionate\, redeeming Mother of God. In a variety of traditions\, she is united with nature—as the Goddess of Water\, Yemaya\, as Creator Goddess Coatlicue\, as Tonantzin\, as friend\, companion\, as intercessor\, and as the spirit of a fellow human being who has experienced the deepest human suffering\, the loss of her criminalized child to the violence of the state. The poems are political\, reverent\, fresh and varied in style. The collection includes an epilogue in Spanish by Levi Romero and translated by poet Julieta Corpus. The epilogue is a soulful response to the last section of the book\, “Bitter Sorrows\,” which is an adaptation of the Seven Sorrows of Mary prayercycle\, in which Mary’s life story becomes lyric\, prayer\, gift and mystery. \n\nAbout the Author\nBorn in Mexico\, Natalia Treviño graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with both her BA and MA in English. She completed her MFA in creative writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Treviño is the author of the chapbook VirginX (Finishing Line Press\, 2018) and the poetry collections When You Were Human (FlowerSong Press\, 2026) and Lavando La Dirty Laundry (Mongrel Empire Press\, 2014).  Treviño is the recipient of several awards\, including the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award\, the Wendy Barker Creative Writing Award\, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize\, the Menada Literary Award from Macedonia\, and the San Antonio Artist Foundation Literary Prize. She is also the winner\, with Octavio Quintanilla\, of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize for co-translating his book Las Horas Imposibles | The Impossible Hours (University of Arizona Press\, 2025).
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-natalia-trevino/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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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-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-12-26/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-12-28/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club: The God of Small Things
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nJoin us as we read The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.\n \n\n\n\n  \n\n“[The God of Small Things] offers such magic\, mystery\, and sadness that\, literally\, this reader turned the last page and decided to reread it. Immediately. It’s that haunting.”—USA Today \n“The quality of Ms. Roy’s narration is so extraordinary—at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple—that the reader remains enthralled all the way through.”—The New York Times Book Review \n“A novel of real ambition must invent its own language\, and this one does.”—John Updike\, The New Yorker \nCompared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens\, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide.\n\nEqual parts powerful family saga\, forbidden love story\, and piercing political drama\, The God of Small Things is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin\, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional\, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated. \n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things\, which won the Booker Prize and has been translated into more than forty languages. She also has published several books of nonfiction including The End of Imagination\, Capitalism: A Ghost Story and The Doctor and the Saint. She lives in New Delhi. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-book-club-the-god-of-small-things/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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