Open Writer’s Labs
Online via ZoomThese 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.
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City Songs Poetry Workshop with Reggie Scott Young
Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United StatesIn this 6-week workshop, we will write poems that celebrate and critique life in the city, with a special emphasis on San Antonio and its environs. This workshop is open to writers with various degrees of experience in poetry and will focus on crafting poems for the page with an emphasis on exploring poetic forms. Guest poets, including Natalia Treviño, John Olivares Espinoza, Clemonce Heard, and Emmy Pérez, will visit the course both in-person and virtually to discuss craft issues.
$145
Anything but Silent–A Book Celebration of Dario Beniquez’s Zone of Silence with Special Guest Readers Robert Allen & Jonathan Fletcher
Join us as we celebrate the release of Dario Beniquez’s debut poetry collection Zone of Silence (Flowersong, 2021) with a reception and reading. Dario has served our writing arts community in San Antonio and beyond for more than 23 years as a volunteer facilitator for Gemini Ink’s Open Writers’ Lab and more. We are excited to honor him and his work of heart, which takes on our complex times with poems that “confront the angst of contemporary life, space, war, theology, antibodies, economics, and love.”
Free
The Poetic Voice with Dario Beniquez
Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United StatesIn this workshop, we will explore in-depth how to find our poetic voice. We will discuss the elements of the poetic voice such as speaker, diction, syntax, rhythm, tone and various other characteristics. In addition, we will study ways we can stretch and challenge our use of poetic voice. Finally, we will apply four questions that will reveal our own poetic voice.
$115
Reusing the Imagination with Ito Romo
Gemini Ink 1111 Navarro St, San Antonio, TX, United StatesIn this class, we will discuss the process of becoming an observant "recorder” in every sense of the word. We will also discuss how to take these “recordings” that now live in our mind, reimagine them, then translate them into our writing so readers are invited to reimagine them too. We will examine how this movement from the real world to our mind to our work then to our reader’s imagination can be done seamlessly, with an emphasis on word choice and syntax. We will also discuss sentence visualization and the role our senses play in creating a written world as believable as our own “real” world.
$150
The Big Texas Read featuring Alexandra van de Kamp
Online via ZoomUp Next: We're reading and discussing Alexandra van de Kamp's poetry collection, Ricochet Script.
Free
Open Writers’ Labs
Online via ZoomThese 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
“Here We Go Loop De Loop:” An Evening of Texas Tales with Novelist Bill Sibley and Express-News Columnist Cary Clack
Join us for an evening of two Texas storytellers at the top of their powers: San Antonio Express-News journalist, Cary Clack, and award-winning writer, journalist and 5th generation Texas rancher, Bill Sibley, as we celebrate Bill’s 4th novel Here We Go Loop De Loop (Atmosphere Press, 2021).
Free
Finding Yourself, Sharing Yourself: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Cary Clack
Each of us has a writing voice that is distinctly our own. Creative nonfiction is a great way to discover that voice. In this workshop, we will use texts and writing exercises to help us discover who we are, what we think, and how to capture our voice on the page. Writers of all levels are welcome.
$145
City Songs Poetry Reading & Celebration
Poetic Republic Coffee Co. 2330 S. Presa St, San Antonio, Texas, United StatesJoin us for this poetry reading and celebration featuring work by emerging poets from Reggie...
Free
The Big Texas Read featuring Laurie Ann Guerrero
Up Next: We’re reading and discussing Laurie Ann Guerrero’s collection of poems in the TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series: I have Eaten the Rattlesnake. The discussion will be moderated by Xelena González, the upcoming title Remembering (Simon & Schuster, 2023).
Free
Picture Books That Pop! with Xelena González
This is a playful writing genre that needs new and diverse voices, so all writing levels are welcome, and no experience is necessary. Illustrators, teachers, and parents are also encouraged to attend.
$135