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The Big Texas Read featuring Jill Alexander Essbaum

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.

Free

Writing About the Weird with Leticia Urieta

Online via Zoom

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. 

$105

Intro to Erasure with Jennifer Steinorth

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

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.   

$100

The Songwriting Master Class: Better Lyrics… Better Stories… Better Songs with Nathan Brown

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

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.

$135

Fuerza-Writing: Developing Performance Text with Marisela Barrera

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

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. 

$140

Gemini Ink’s 22nd Annual Inkstravaganza

McNay Art Museum 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., San Antonio, TX, United States

Join Gemini Ink, San Antonio's Writing Arts Center, at the beautiful McNay Art Museum on Friday, November 4th, for an unforgettable, lively evening celebrating the many worlds of Dr. Norma Elia Cantu!

Vonnegut Marathon Reading

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

This is the official call for people to read from Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut on Veteran's Day!

Gemini Ink will take part in the reading in our office live streamed from 2-4pm on Friday, November 11th. If someone wants to read at Gemini Ink specifically, they will need to specify when they sign up at the email listed on the ad.

Free

6-Minute Memoir with Mary Helen Stefaniak

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

Write one or more brief memoirs (i.e., a nonfiction piece up to 1200 words in lengt) that vividly presents and explores the meaning of a particular past experience. 

$140

The Big Texas Read featuring Daniel Peña

Online via Zoom

Up Next: We're in conversation with Daniel Peña's about his novel, Bang. We'll also have a discussion on the craft and business of writing. About Bang: An undocumented Mexican family living in South Texas is torn apart when a son inadvertently becomes involved with narcotraficantes in Daniel Peña's debut novel that explores contemporary issues of immigration, border life and international drug smuggling.

Free

The Big Texas Read featuring Tomas Q. Morín

Online via Zoom

We're talking with Thomas Q. Morín about his memoir, Let Me Count The Ways. We'll also discuss the craft and business of writing.
Let Me Count the Ways is the memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain, violence, and unpredictability. Morín’s compulsions were a way to hold onto his love for his family in uncertain times until OCD became a prison he struggled for decades to escape. Tender, unflinching, and even funny, this vivid portrait of South Texas life challenges our ideas about fatherhood, drug abuse, and mental illness.

Free