Gemini Ink is thrilled to host a Virtual Mentorship Celebration featuring our two 2022 Poetry Mentees: Taslim Tagore and Chelsea Wu! They have worked closely with award-winning poet Laura Van Prooyen through a 6-month mentorship that included writing practice, feedback, deep revision, and publication guidance. Join us from the comfort of your own home as we listen to the latest work from these up-and-coming writers.
Up Next: We’re reading and discussing Carmen Tafolla’s The Last Butterfly/La Ultima Mariposa, illustrated by Regina Moya and winner of the most inspiring bilingual children’s book for the International Latino Book Awards. The discussion will be moderated by artist and writer Regina Moya.
We're participating in The Big Give 2022 on Thursday, Sep 22-23! For 2 days people are supporting their favorite non-profit arts and cultural organizations.
For over 25 years, readers and writers like you have made Gemini Ink the center for the writing arts in San Antonio. Together we've created a community dedicated to celebrating the power of words and the impact of sharing our stories. We believe the written word can transform lives!
Join us for a reading with poets Craig Beaven and Emily Perez. Bio: Craig Beaven...
This 3-session workshop is designed to empower writers with revision techniques to apply to memoir, essays, flash, short stories, or novels. Whether trying to revise a stand-alone chapter or considering the broader arc of your full manuscript, these techniques are graspable, effective, and empowering.
A Night of Poetry with Sheila Black, Viktoria Valenzuela & Carmen Calatayud, followed by a...
Everyone is creative, but being an educator takes a special kind of innovation. In this workshop, we will discover new ways to build creative muscles as teachers which will inspire and nurture creative confidence in students. This workshop includes exercises and writing prompts that boost collaboration and imagination.
Up Next: We’re discussing Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Hausfrau: A Novel. Poet, writer, and educator Jessica Piazza will be in discussion with Jill about the craft and business of writing.
Are you a storyteller? Have you ever considered how to push the boundaries of what storytelling could be? Ever wonder what blending genres of horror, folktales and traditional stories, as well as magical imaginings, could mean for your work? In this writing workshop for adults 16+, we will explore short stories, poems and hybrid pieces that help us reimagine realities and unlock the strange, the magical, the grotesque, and the beautiful that we find in our familial stories and our everyday lives.
Are you plagued by stress, fatigue and increased screen time? Many artists and writers feel blocked. Working with found materials can help penetrate blocks and reclaim agency.
Through erasure, we are able to take existing text and blackout, erase, and obscure what is already written to create a whole new text that talks back to history, institutions, news media, departed souls, and any force that threatens to silence us.
This workshop deals with finding a song’s “main goal,” its central theme, and then explores the various ways we can “drive home” that story for other listeners to appreciate. We’ll take a look at the inner workings of several song forms and structures so we can better understand how to apply our particular stories to those classic structures.
Learn how to turn everyday source material into a final performance. In this four-week workshop, we'll discuss verbatim theater (theater based on people's spoken words), devised performance (collaborative, often improvised work), and adapting your original short stories or poems into plays. We'll practice examples of each. You'll be asked to commit to developing one performance text to be shared in a public reading.
