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SUMMARY:Get Back in Full Swing: Gemini Ink’s Literary Open House  
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 23rd at 6:30pm CST\, for our open house at Gemini Ink and get your writing back in full swing! \nWe are excited to introduce the dynamic roster of teaching artists working with us this year. Connect with some of San Antonio’s most talented writers as they share new work and discuss the classes they’ll be teaching. Featured writers include poet and award-winning memoirist Kendra Allen; award-winning poet and Sun Poets Society founder Rod Carlos Rodriguez; haiku champion\, storyteller\, and Taco-Poet of Texas\, Eddie Vega; and 2020-2023 San Antonio Poet Laureate and Hip-Hop artist Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson. We can’t wait for our creative community to inspire you! \nThe night kicks off with our teaching artists reading their work and offering insights into their 2023 workshops\, followed by a bit of mix-and-mingling. Our evening then culminates in a community open mic.  \nWe want to hear your latest work! The list is capped at six readers. Arrive early to grab a spot. It all happens at Gemini Ink’s downtown writing arts center–1111 Navarro Street. Don’t leave without our spring calendar of classes and events\, chock full of events and offerings! \nWe bet after this\, you’ll be inspired to run home and write that new piece!  \n\nKendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas\, Tx. She loves laughing\, leaving\, and writing Make Love in My Car\, a music column for Southwest Review. Some of her other work can be found in\, or on\, The Paris Review\, High Times\, The Rumpus\, and more. She’s the author of the poetry collection The Collection Plate\, and the essay collection When You Learn the Alphabet\, which won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. Fruit Punch\, her memoir\, is out now.  \nRod Carlos Rodriguez has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and has trained as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio Writing Program. He is also an award-winning poet who has been writing for over 40 years. He has three books of poetry published and is founder/chair of the Sun Poet’s Society\, South Texas’s longest-running weekly open-mic poetry reading (1995-2022). He was nominated for the San Antonio Poet Laureate in April 2012\, April 2014\, April 2016\, and April 2018. He was the poetry editor for Ocotillo Review (Kallisto Gaia Press)\, a literary journal/periodical and he was the editor of Texas Poetry Calendar 2023 (Kallisto Gaia Press). \nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a San Antonio native that has been performing for over twenty years. She’s the co-host of the consecutive award-winning 2nd Verse Open Mic. She has served as a Writer in Community for Gemini Ink since 2009. She’s the winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award\, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as: Artist Foundation of San Antonio). Her debut book entitled: She Lives In Music\, published on Flower Song Press\, was released on Valentine’s Day 2020. Her album She Tastes Like Music is available on all music streaming platforms. On April 1st 2020\, Andrea became the first African American Poet Laureate of San Antonio 2020-2023. In May of 2020\, she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards. \nEddie Vega is a poet\, spoken word artist\, storyteller\, and educator. His poetry has been displayed on VIA Buses and downtown San Antonio buildings. His first full-length poetry collection\, Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press) was published in 2019\, and he is the 2021 recipient of the Literary Arts Grant from the Luminaria Artist Foundation. In 2022\, Vega won the Haiku Death Match at both the Southern Fried Poetry Slam and the NSFPS BlackBerry Peach Slam. His latest project is a collection of poems written by South Texas poets entitled Asina is How We Talk. Vega writes about food\, Tejano culture\, social justice\, and the intersections thereof. Known as the Taco-Poet of Texas\, he can be found nightly at an open mic\, slam\, or taqueria anywhere throughout South Texas. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/get-back-in-full-swing/
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SUMMARY:Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply: 3 Women Poets Talk to the Gods with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, March 8\, 15 & 22\, 6:30-8:30pm\, CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Veronica Golos\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n\n \nI absolutely loved the workshop with Veronica Golos. Even with a larger turnout\, she kept the community of the class intact. We had a great time reading deeply and sharing our own works. —Cathlin Noonan\, previous student of Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply \nWhether a writer is talking directly to God or using religious reflection to try and make sense of humanity\, poetry is shrouded in spiritual mystery and is often used to explore both concrete and intangible concepts of a higher power. \nIn this three-week workshop\, we will study impactful poems from three women poets who invoke ideas of God or the gods. Louise Gluck’s book The Wild Iris enlists flowers from the garden of eden to help tell a story. Lucille Clifton’s “brothers” is an eight-poem conversation between an aged Lucifer and God. Natalia Toledo’s body of written work speaks to the Zapotec gods in three languages: Zapotec\, Spanish\, and English. \nClass readings and suggestions on how to write your own response poem to these poets (and these gods) will be shared prior to the workshop. \nParticipants will: \n\nStudy and analyze the work of 3 contemporary poets\nWrite poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme\nReceive on-the-spot feedback for written work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL\, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize\, 2019 (Beirut\, Lebanon); Rootwork\, winner of the Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry\, 2016; Vocabulary of Silence\, winner of the New Mexico Book Award\, translated into Arabic and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep\, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Former co-editor of the Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art\, she is an instructor for SOMOS in Taos\, NM\, and Hugo House in Seattle\, WA. Plume Magazine recently featured her work-in-progress\, The Changing Same. Plume Poetry Feature: Veronica Golos. She lives in Taos\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, David Pérez.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/reading-deeply-writing-deeply-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink in Seattle for AWP!
DESCRIPTION:Dear Writers & Readers\, \nIf you’re in Seattle for AWP\, we’d love to see/meet you. We’ll be at bookfair table T419 with the lovely Mandy Lynn Lara and Alexandra van de Kamp\, and volunteers Laura Van Prooyen\, Chibbi Orduña\, Carmen Tafolla\, Jen Yáñez-Alaniz and others. We have wonderful staff and SA representation this year—because of the support of people like you! \nHere is the current list of authors and signing times: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nDay\nStart Time\nEnd Time\nAuthor\n\n\nMarch 9\nThursday\n1:00 PM\n3:00 PM\nKristine Esser Slentz\n\n\nMarch 9\nThursday\n3:00 PM\n5:00 PM\nEduardo Vega\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n11:00 AM\n1:00 PM\nLaura Van Prooyen\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n11:00 AM\n1:00 PM\nAlexandra van de Kamp\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n11:00 AM\n1:00 PM\nLucas Jacob\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n11:00 AM\n1:00 PM\nAnn Hudson\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n11:00 AM\n1:00 PM\nHari Alluri\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n1:00 PM\n3:00 PM\nWondra Chang\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n3:00 PM\n5:00 PM\nEdward Vidaurre\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarch 11\nSaturday\n10:00 AM\n11:00 AM\nCarmen Tafolla\n\n\nMarch 11\nSaturday\n12:00 PM\n1:00 PM\nChibbi Orduña\n\n\nMarch 11\nSaturday\n3:00 PM\n4:00 PM\nOctavio Quintanilla\n\n\nMarch 11\nSaturday\n3:30 PM\n4:30 PM\nJen Yáñez-Alaniz\n\n\n\nWe hope to see you soon! \nThe Gemini Ink team
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/gemini-ink-at-awp23/
LOCATION:Seattle Convention Center\, 705 Pike St\, Seattle\, Washington
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230310
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SUMMARY:Deadline to enter the Ekphrastic Poetry Contest Sponsored by 2023 National Poetry Month San Antonio
DESCRIPTION:San Antonio & South Texas Adult & Youth poets!\nPoets from San Antonio and South Texas are invited to enter the 2023 Ekphrastic Poetry Contest by writing poems inspired by selected artworks from five San Antonio arts institutions. There is no entry fee. \nWHAT IS AN EKPHRASTIC POEM? A poem written in response to an artwork. The poem should not simply describe the artwork; it should express how the art enlightens\, puzzles\, moves\, frightens you\, etc. Enter original poems inspired by the artworks below. \n2023 MUSEUM-SELECTED ARTWORKS\nTo see artworks\, click on the links below or visit the art institutions in person: \n\n\nThe Briscoe Western Art Museum: Jerry Jordan\, LISTEN TO THE DRUMS\, 2013\, Oil on Canvas. https://www.briscoemuseum.org/poetry/ \n\n\nThe McNay Art Museum: vanessa german\, BLACK GIRL WITH SNAKES\, 2020\, Assemblage. https://www.mcnayart.org/event/2023-national-poetry-month-ekphrastic-poetry-contest/ \n\n\nRuby City: Isaac Julien\, DREAMING RED\, 2009\, Light Box\, 48 x 50 x 5 in. edition 1/10  https://www.Rubycity.org/npmsa2023/ \n\n\nSan Antonio Museum of Art: ARMORIAL HANGING\, ca. 1771\, Viceroyalty of New Spain period. https://www.samuseum.org/events/event/2023-nation-poetry-month-ekphrastic-poetry-contest/?year=2023&month=3&day=10&hour=6&minute=0&second=0 \n\n\nThe Witte Museum: JOVITA IDAR LITTLE PANTRY CABINET. https://www.wittemuseum.org/media/ \n\n\n\nCONTEST GUIDELINES \n\nContest Deadline: March 10.  Only San Antonio & South Texas adult & youth poets are eligible.  \nSubmit up to two (2) poems (each no more than 15 lines plus title; spaces between lines count as lines—except space after title).\nAttach each poem as a PDF\, Word doc or docx in a separate email to EkphrasticPoetryContest1@gmail.com\nNo name or identifying info on the poems. No poems in the body of the email.\nEmails must include: Your Name\, City/State\, Contact Email Address. Youth must include age.\nEmail subject line must read: Ekphrastic Poetry (Adult or Youth) Contest – (Title of Artwork).\nContest Judges will select up to 3 poems per artwork. Only winners will be notified by email with further instructions. Winning poems will be published on the websites listed above throughout April.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/deadline-to-enter-the-ekphrastic-poetry-contest-2023/
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SUMMARY:Author Silviana Wood at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
DESCRIPTION:  \n“It is a masterpiece!” “Silviana Wood is La Mera Mera.”\n-Denise Chávez\, author of Loving Pedro Infante \n“Highly recommended.”\n-Luis Alberto Urrea\, author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter \n“This is a story to be savored\, page by precious page.”\n-Demetria Martínez\, author of Mother Tongue \n“… One of the best debut novels of the past decade.”\n-Russ López\, Editor/LatineLit \nLearn more about La Quinta Soledad at  aztlanlibrepress.com.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/silviana-wood-at-the-guadalupe/
LOCATION:The Guadalupe Latino Bookstore\, 1300 Guadalupe St\, San Antonio\, Texas
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Leticia Urieta
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nJoin us for a free author talk & discussion with Leticia Urieta\, author of Las Criaturas. This session will be moderated by jo reyes-boitel\, a poet\, essayist\, and playwright.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Las Criaturas\, Leticia Urieta hones the conventions of folklore and mythology to center girls & women in a present context. Otherworldly and musical\, Las Criaturas positions the monstrous as a form of power and place of refuge\, firmly asking readers the pertinent questions: “Who creates the monsters? How do las criaturas that pervade our past\, present\, and future find justice?” Urieta has gifted us a daring and playful new work that points us in the right direction.\n–Reyes Ramirez\, author of The Book of Wanderers\n\n\n\nLeticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin\, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and a freelance writer. She graduated from Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Cleaver\, Chicon Street Poets\, Lumina\, The Offing\, Kweli Journal\, Medium\, Electric Lit and others. Her chapbook\, The Monster was published by LibroMobile Press\, and her hybrid collection\, Las Criaturas\, is out now from FlowerSong Press.\n\n\njo reyes-boitel is a poet\, essayist\, and playwright. jo is also a queer\, mixed-Latinx parent working in community. Somehow born in Minnesota\, their family calls Texas\, Florida\, Mexico\, and Cuba home. Recent and forthcoming publications include Huizache\, OyeDrum\, Scalawag Journal\, The Ice Colony\, Windward Review\, La Voz de Esperanza\, Chachalaca Review\, Borderlands\, The Americas Review\, and Your Impossible Voice. jo’s chapbook mouth (Neon Hemlock\, 2021) addressed the struggle of working through others’ views and dominant culture’s impact on the body and the self – toward liberation. Their first book\, Michael + Josephine\, a novel in verse (FlowerSong Press\, 2019)\, reimagined St. Michael the Archangel as a queer woman who begins a love relationship with Josephine\, a disaster relief worker.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-leticia-urieta/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230319T170000
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SUMMARY:Deadline to apply to the 2023 Bexar County Arts Internship
DESCRIPTION:The intern will assist the Director of Programs in revamping Gemini Ink’s Autograph Series\, which presents writers of national and international stature—many of them recipients of major prizes such as the Pulitzer or National Book Award. This signature\, two-day series includes a ticketed luncheon and a free public evening performance\, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. The Gemini Ink intern will focus on strengthening the curricular components of this event so the author’s visit is even more impactful and engaging for San Antonio students and teachers.  \nThe intern will accomplish this by performing the following tasks:  \n\nDesigning a high school study guide template to be used for future Autograph Series while also creating one specifically for our 2024 featured author\, American poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, who will be discussing her New York Times bestselling collection of nature essays: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks. \nCreating marketing and registration materials about the Autograph Series for educators and students. \nUpdating our current spreadsheet of high school contacts so we have the most up-to-date information on who to reach out to invite area high schools to this event. \nAssisting with the design of surveys to assess educators’ and students’ experience attending the Autograph Series. \nProviding support with general Gemini Ink program administrative duties\, including data entry\, material prep for summer writing workshops\, note-taking in meetings\, etc.\n\nWho can apply?  \n\nThe internship is open to currently enrolled undergraduate college students who are Bexar County residents attending a college or university in Bexar County or outside of the county\, as long as the student is a resident of Bexar County and able to show proof of the same.\n\nTo apply\, please provide the following items:  \n\nThe completed application \nA cover letter \nA resume\nTwo creative or academic writing samples\n\n**Please email your completed application to our Director of Programs Florinda Flores-Brown at fbrown@geminiink.org. Applications missing any of the above items will not be considered. **\nThe deadline to apply has been extended to Sunday\, March 19th by 5 pm CST\nThis is a 40/hour per week internship at a pay rate of $8.75/hour. The internship begins on Monday\, June 6th\, and ends on Friday\, August 11th. This is a hybrid internship (part in-person\, part remote). Some nights and weekends may be required.  \n\n  \nAbout the Autograph Series:  \nRecently featured authors have included world-renowned author Margaret Atwood\, 2016 National Book Award recipient poet Terrance Hayes\, beloved novelist and poet Sandra Cisneros\, and New York Times bestselling novelist Ben Fountain. The Autograph luncheon attracts over 250 guests and includes 100-140 sponsored high school students. Through this luncheon\, students experience up close the leading literary figures of our times and engage with the contemporary world of literature in exciting ways. \nFor more information about the Autograph Series\, please visit this page. For any questions about the internship\, please email Florinda Flores-Brown at fbrown@geminiink.org.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/deadline-to-apply-to-the-2023-bexar-county-arts-internship/
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SUMMARY:How to Get Yourself Out on Social Media for Busy Writers with Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson and Zach Jewell
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, March 23 & 30\, 6:30-8:45pm CST\, Hybrid: participants may attend in-person at Gemini Ink or online via Zoom\nInstructors: Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson and Zach Jewell\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \n\nAre you a busy writer seeking balance between a hectic writing life and building a network of social media supporters?\nWant to get to know your followers but just can’t find the time?\n\n2020-2023 San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson and social media expert Zach Jewell are teaming up to share insider secrets for creating engaging\, writing-related social media content that will keep your followers up-to-date and involved with you as a writer and human being. \nIn this two-part course\, we will discuss time-sensitive strategies for promoting yourself and your artistry on social media. We will brainstorm creative ideas to interact\, engage\, and share relatable content without overwhelming ourselves or losing time. Finally\, we will consider simple systems for managing the tedious challenge of social media and website upkeep. \nYou will leave the workshop with the following: \n\nIdeas on how to better manage social media interaction while leaving room to breathe\nA better understanding of a variety of social media platforms and their individual power\nTips on how to keep your followers engaged with you and your content\n\nClick the link to watch the video where Vocab & Zach Jewell explain the importance of social media as a tool to share your work: instagram.com/p/CpBxA3zqzNP/. \n\nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a San Antonio native that has been performing for over twenty years. She’s the co-host of the consecutive award-winning 2nd Verse Open Mic. She has served as a Writer in Community for Gemini Ink since 2009. She’s the winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award\, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as the Artist Foundation of San Antonio). Her debut book entitled: She Lives In Music\, published on Flower Song Press\, was released on Valentine’s Day 2020. Her album She Tastes Like Music is available on all music streaming platforms. On April 1st\, 2020\, Andrea became the first African American Poet Laureate of San Antonio 2020-2023. In May of 2020\, she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards. \nZach Jewell has been a poet and percussionist and has been creating and promoting community events and programs for the arts for over 20 years. He’s managed marketing initiatives and social media accounts for Costco\, The YMCA\, and Amazon. He is currently wearing many hats as an entrepreneur running a nonprofit for men’s mental wellness\, creating programming\, marketing\, and social media platforms\, among many other things. He also has a self-published book of poetry on Amazon titled Nomad Psalms. \n\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/social-media-for-busy-writers/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's 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. \nRegister\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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27/2023-03-27/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:All Things Are Alive: Animating the Inanimate–Puppetry for Writers with Mobi Warren
DESCRIPTION:Dates/Times: Saturdays\, April 1\, 8\, 22\, and 29\, 10am – 12pm cst\nInstructor: Mobi Warren\nCost: Nonmember:  $165  Member:  $145  Student/Vet/Mil: $95\n*In person at Gemini Ink \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \nAre you looking for a different way to tap into your creativity? Are you ready to experience the curiosity\, wonder\, and empathy that puppetry naturally inspires? \nUnder the guidance of puppeteer and poet Mobi Warren\, workshop participants will build a simple hand puppet from paper mâché and cloth\, and breathe life into the personality that emerges. The process may culminate in a poem\, a short prose piece\, or a monologue puppet script. Participants will be encouraged to sense the livingness in the materials used and to explore unexpected insights that emerge as the puppet acquires form. No puppetry experience is required to attend this workshop\, and writers of all levels are welcome.   \nStudents will leave this workshop with the following tools: \n\nA guide on creating a simple papier mache glove (hand) puppet\nTechniques for animating a puppet through voice\, character\, and story\nHow to use puppetry to uncover new poems or songs \nExploration of puppetry as a new point of entry into the creative writing process\n\n*Bring a journal to write in. Puppetry supplies will be provided for all participants.  \n*The cost of this workshop includes a $20 supply fee \n\nPuppeteer Mobi Warren is the author of the young adult novel The Bee Maker and a poetry collection\, Thread and Nectar. She is co-founder of the regional writers and artists collaborative\, Stone in Stream\, which advocates for environmental awareness and climate justice. Mobi serves on the Board of the National Capital Puppetry Guild.  An animist at heart\, she is enchanted by the livingness of all materials and is currently in thrall to the wild (and sometimes unruly) species known as puppets\, and how making and animating a puppet can help a writer engage more deeply with creative and empathetic energies. \n\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/puppetry-for-writers/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Words\, Wine and Wisdom: A Night of Stories with Leticia Urieta\, Rooster Martinez & Andrew Porter
DESCRIPTION:A Night of Stories with Leticia Urieta\, Rooster Martinez & Andrew Porter followed by a Community Open Mic\nThurs\, April 13\, 6:30-8pm\, In-Person\nPoetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\nFree & Open to the Public \nJoin us for a night of poetry and literary celebration as we partner with our friends at Poetic Republic Coffee Co. to create an inviting space for the writing community to share words\, wine\, and wisdom\, with a little latte or espresso on the side. \nGet ready to be inspired by the mesmerizing worlds of three writers\, each with their own ferocity of voice. The evening kicks off with Leticia Urieta reading from her hybrid collection of poems and short stories\, Las Criaturas (2021)\, which “tells the stories of untold women.” She’ll be joined by special guests C.L. “Rooster” Martinez and Andrew Porter\, who will share the gifts of their recent works. \nFollowing the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 3-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm. \n\nLeticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin\, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and the Regional Program Manager of Austin Bat Cave\, as well as the co-director of Barrio Writers Austin and Pflugerville\, a free creative writing program for youth. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Chicon Street Poets\, Lumina\, The Offing\, Kweli Journal\, Medium\, Electric Lit\, and others. Her chapbook\, The Monster\, was published in 2018 by LibroMobile Press. Her hybrid collection\, Las Criaturas\, was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters and is out now from FlowerSong Press. \nChristopher “Rooster” Martinez is an educator and spoken word poet from San Antonio\, Texas. He earned a MA/MFA in Creative Writing\, Literature & Social Justice at Our Lady of the Lake University. He is the author of two poetry books: A Saint for Lost Things (Alabrava Press\, 2020) and As it is in Heaven (Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press\, 2020). For twelve years\, Rooster competed and won slams across the country and co-founded the literary nonprofit Write Art Out Inc.  \nAndrew Porter is the acclaimed\, award-winning author of the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf 2023) and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage)\, and the novel In Between Days (Knopf). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has received a Pushcart Prize\, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story\, The Threepenny Review\, Ploughshares\, Narrative\, The Southern Review\, and on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. He teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/words-wine-and-wisdom/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230415T130000
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SUMMARY:Literary Movements with Rod Carlos Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 15\, 9am-1pm CST\, in-person at Government Canyon (12861 Galm Road\, San Antonio\, Texas 78254)\nInstructor: Rod Carlos Rodriguez\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Vet/Mil $60 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \nNature has inspired countless writers and artists and played a key role in many literary movements\, from Transcendentalism to SLAM poetry. As such\, this class will examine these movements and their nature-based connections so that we may draw upon them for our own creativity. \nFor additional inspiration\, we will be in nature’s classroom\, the great outdoors! We will share and write from the comfort of the Government Canyon Gallery\, which provides an enclosed classroom wrapped in windows and a gorgeous 360° view of the surrounding woods.  \nClass participants will use body movement as a source of creativity\, find their own corners of nature to sit in and write from\, and participate in small group work. Bring a bottle of water and a folding chair! Following the class\, participants are encouraged to stick around and explore the park on their own. \nAfter taking this class\, students will be able to: \n\nFuse the great outdoors into their own writing process.\nIdentify multiple American Literary Movements (both past and present)\, from  Transcendentalism and Surrealism to the Beat Generation\, and more.\nGather inspiration from an array of writers associated with these literary movements.\n\n*This class will be held in the Government Canyon Gallery. The event space is covered and still accessible in the event of rain.  \n\nRod Carlos Rodriguez has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. He has trained as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio Writing Program. He is also an award-winning poet who has written for over 40 years. He has three books of poetry published and is the founder/chair of the Sun Poet’s Society\, South Texas’s longest-running weekly open-mic poetry reading (1995-2022). He was nominated for the San Antonio Poet Laureate in April 2012\, April 2014\, April 2016\, and April 2018. He was the poetry editor for Ocotillo Review (Kallisto Gaia Press)\, a literary journal/periodical\, and he was the editor of Texas Poetry Calendar 2023 (Kallisto Gaia Press).
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/literary-movements-with-rod-rodriguez/
LOCATION:Government Canyon\, 12861 Galm Road\, San Antonio\, 78254\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230415T170000
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SUMMARY:11th Annual San Antonio Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Florinda Flores-Brown\, Programs Director \nGemini Ink is thrilled to announce our presence at the upcoming San Antonio Book Festival on Saturday\, April 15th. Join us from 9am to 5pm at the Central Library and UTSA Southwest Campus in downtown San Antonio\, where we’ll be ready to engage with everyone who attends this exciting event! \nThe festival will be a splendid opportunity for literary enthusiasts to interact with prominent authors and poets and attend insightful panel discussions and book signings. This year’s author lineup features 100 notable local\, regional\, and national authors who will be participating in the festival and several related events. The lineup includes nationally renowned authors like Kiese Laymon\, Geraldine Brooks\, Stephen Graham Jones\, and Pulitzer Prize–winning Jane Smiley\, among many others. There will be something for everyone\, from young adult and children’s sessions to insightful talks on current events and politics. Follow the link to see the schedule: https://sabookfestival.org/schedule/ \nStop by our booth\, pick up one of our class schedules\, and discover more about our innovative projects\, captivating readings\, and upcoming events. Gemini Ink staff will be on hand to chat with you\, answer your questions\, and share insights about the writing arts in San Antonio. Come say hello! \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/11th-annual-san-antonio-book-festival/
LOCATION:UTSA Southwest Campus\, 300 Augusta St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230419T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Steve Adams
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nWednesday\, April 19th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Steve Adams\, author of the novel Remember This. This session will be moderated by Ramona Reeves\, author of the prize-winning collection It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book\nJohn Martin\, a talented graphic designer from Texas\, has left his alcoholic mother behind and is now employed as a word processor for a prestigious New York investment bank. In the midst of the personal computer revolution and AIDS epidemic\, John embarks on an affair with his supervisor Alena Marino\, an Italian immigrant. When his oldest sister arrives unexpectedly\, John is forced to confront his past and the complex relationships he has had with beautiful women. John must now come to terms with his damaged past as he embarks on his journey of understanding.\n\n\n\nSteve Adams’ creative nonfiction has won a Pushcart Prize\, been listed as “Notable” in Best American Essays\, and published in The Pinch\, The Millions\, and elsewhere. In fiction\, he’s won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers\, and his stories have been anthologized and published in Glimmer Train\, The Missouri Review\, and elsewhere. He’s been a guest artist at UT\, a resident artist at Jentel\, and a scholar at the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony\, and his plays have been produced in NYC. His debut novel\, Remember This\, was published in October 2022. He’s a writing coach and freelance editor in Memphis.\n\nRamona Reeves is a native of Mobile\, Alabama. Her linked short story collection It Falls Gently All Aroundand Other Stories won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press last fall. She spent a decade in the Northeastern U.S.\, writing freelance articles\, proofreading for a men’s fashion weekly\, and performing production roles for Food & Wine\, Travel & Leisure\, and Esquire before moving into technical editing and writing. She eventually moved to Texas for several years before leaving to pursue her MFA in fiction. She has since returned and is nearing completion on a novel. Ramona has served as a board member for A Room of Her Own (AROHO)\, moderated and appeared on conference panels\, taught college-level writing courses\, and was an associate fiction editor for Kallisto Gaia Press. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Southampton Review\, Pembroke\, Bayou Magazine\, New South\, Superstition Review\, Texas Highways and other publications. She’s won the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize\, been a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, and is a Community of Writers alum.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-steve-adams/
CATEGORIES:Event,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230502T203000
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Etymology of Our Artistic Practice with Diana Lizette Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, May 2\, 9\, 16 & 23\, 6-8:30pm\, CST\, offered via Zoom\nInstructor: Diana Lizette Rodriguez\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Cancelled\nWhere does your artistic practice come from? How do artists in other disciplines approach their own artistic expression? And how does understanding the origin of our art and that of others open us to new creative possibilities?\nThis four-week workshop with Diana Lizette Rodriguez will help participants identify the roots of their art practice through writing and multimedia exercises. By closely examining creative texts\, film\, photography\, and performance material and reflecting on other artistic processes\, participants will fully envision or rethink their own. The workshop will also explore how ancestry\, family trees\, landscape\, and location can inform the root of artistic expression.  \nThe overall goal of these reflections\, writing prompts\, and multimedia assignments is to help writers deepen their own creativity and to open up the way they approach making art.  \nThis workshop is open to writers 16 and older of all skill levels. Spanish speakers and writers are also welcome! \nParticipants will leave this course with the following: \n\n An expanded viewpoint on how other mediums boost creative practice\n Acknowledgment of where your creative energy comes from\n New artistic foundations to create deeper work in your life\n\n\nDiana Lizette Rodriguez is an experimental artist who works with installation\, painting\, performance\, photography\, and the illuminating world of poetry. A Mexican-American artist from San Antonio\, Texas\, Rodriguez explores the fragmented decay the world portrays. Her work holds reminders of impermanence\, and she creates these reminders with disruption\, disorientation\, and unknown predictabilities. Rodriguez pushes to work with a conceptualized intention\, questions the reason for Art\, and finds concepts like the 4th Dimension to be an idea her path wants to follow. To dive into. Questions such as “If I go to the 4th Dimension\, would I be able to come back to the 1st?” arise\, and Rodriguez\, as an artist\, does not find the answer to such a question. She just creates.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/exploring-the-etymology-of-our-artistic-practice/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230506T170000
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SUMMARY:Voices of San Anto Bilingual Storytelling Workshop with Marisela Barrera
DESCRIPTION:You have a story to tell\, and we want to help you tell it!\n\n\n\n\nJoin poet and storyteller Marisela Barrera for a free\, two-session workshop at the San Antonio Public Library. Craft a five to seven-minute story about a significant moment in your life and present it a public performance and celebration. Whether it’s that funny anecdote you share at parties\, an event that changed your life\, or a family story passed down for generations\, your story matters\, and we want to help you bring it to life. \nThis workshop is for adults 18+\, and no writing or performance experience is required. Native Spanish speakers and bilingual folks are highly encouraged to register. \n\n\nYou will leave the workshop with: \n\nA fully-formed story ready for performance\nAn understanding of story elements\nPerformance strategies for effective live storytelling\nExperience sharing a story with friends\, family\, and the community\n\n\n\n\n\nDates:\nWriting Sessions May 6 & 13\, 1-5pm \nFinal Celebration May 20\, 10:30am-12:30pm \n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email Sarah De La Rosa:\nsarah.delarosa@sanantonio.gov\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(If email link is not clickable\, cut and paste the email sarah.delarosa@sanantonio.gov into your email client.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarisela Barrera is a Tejana writer and teatrista who writes short stories and turns them into transmedia performances. She spins and eats fire with Jump-Start Performance Co.\, teaches writing at Northwest Vista College\, and is a Resident Actor with the Public Theater of San Antonio. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/voices-of-san-anto-1/
LOCATION:Central Library\, 600 Soledad\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230506T160000
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SUMMARY:(Poetry) Slam 201 with C.L. “Rooster” Martinez
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, May 6\, 13\, 20 & 27\, 2-4pm\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: C.L. “Rooster” Martinez\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Cancelled\n\nImagine stepping up to the mic at a poetry slam with less than 3 minutes to captivate the audience.\nWhat will you say? How will you use your voice\, face\, and body language to take the audience on an emotional rollercoaster? \n\n(Poetry) Slam 201 is a generative and performance workshop focused on individual and collaborative writing for live competition. We will briefly examine the history and rules of the Slam Poetry genre\, write new and exciting work as individuals and teams\, use a critique session to delve deep into the poem’s intended message\, and focus on moving the written word from the page to the microphone. Participants will receive performance tips and feedback that will add emotional depth and impact to their spoken word delivery. \n(Poetry) Slam 201 is designed for most writers (17 years old and up) of any experience level.  \n*For those who took Slam 101\, this class will expand on the knowledge gained in the first class and is more generative and performance-focused. Please note (Poetry) Slam 101 is not a prerequisite\, as this class will briefly reintroduce the lessons of the former class. \nParticipants will leave this class with the following tools: \n\nKnowledge of Slam Poetry history & rules\nPractice writing individual and collaborative poems \nWriting and performance feedback for creating a powerful stage presentation\n\n\nChristopher “Rooster” Martinez is an educator and spoken word poet from San Antonio\, Texas. He earned a MA/MFA in Creative Writing\, Literature & Social Justice at Our Lady of the Lake University. He is the author of two poetry books: A Saint for Lost Things (Alabrava Press\, 2020) and As it is in Heaven (Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press\, 2020). For twelve years\, Rooster competed and won slams across the country and co-founded the literary nonprofit Write Art Out Inc.  \n\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/poetry-slam-201/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230517T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230517T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Andrew Porter
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\nWednesday\, May 17th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Andrew Porter\, author of the story collection\, The Disappeared.\nJoin us for The Big Texas Author Talk\, a free monthly lecture series that showcases Texas authors from different parts of the state\, including New York Times bestsellers and Latinx border authors. The series offers informative and entertaining conversations with storytellers who represent the diverse spirit of Texas. Past featured authors include Kathleen Kent\, Marisol Cortez\, Joe Lansdale\, and Carmen Tafolla\, among others. Join us virtually on the third Wednesday of every month at 7 pm CST. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\nA collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our lives\, by the acclaimed\, award-winning author of The Theory of Light and Matter \n\n\n“What a beautiful book about the profound mystery of ordinary life.” —Alix Ohlin\, author of We Want What We Want \n\n\n\nA husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous codependency. With gorgeous sensitivity\, assurance\, and a propulsive sense of menace\, these stories center on disappearances\, both literal and figurative—lives and loves that are cut short\, the vanishing of one’s youthful self. From San Antonio to Austin\, from the clamor of a crowded restaurant to the cigarette at a lonely kitchen table\, Andrew Porter captures each of these relationships mid-flight\, every individual life punctuated by loss and beauty and need. The Disappeared reaffirms the undeniable artistry of a contemporary master of the form. \n\n\n\nANDREW PORTER is the author of the story collection The Theory of Light and Matter and the novel In Between Days. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has received a Pushcart Prize\, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story\, The Threepenny Review\, and Ploughshares\, and on public radio’s Selected Shorts. Currently\, he teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-andrew-porter/
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230520T130000
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SUMMARY:Spot Revision with Mary Helen Stefaniak
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 20\, 10am-1pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Mary Helen Stefaniak\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Vet/Mil $50 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \n\nHow often could someone look up from reading your manuscript and say to the person across the table\, “Listen to this!”?\n\n\nDo you reward the reader with juicy details and interesting word choices to sink their mind into on every single page? In this spot revision class\, we will examine our written work and find opportunities to expand\, rephrase\, and substitute words for attention-grabbing language. We will also discuss ways to make our work fresh and unpredictable and add texture. We are not focusing on small mistakes but on small ways to take our prose to the next level. \nTo prepare for this class\, we will read mentor texts and prepare a page (250 to 300 words) pulled from our own fiction or creative nonfiction to use in practice. In class\, we’ll exchange pages and provide suggestions for making our writing more riveting and our word choice more compelling. Then\, we’ll assess the comments and apply the techniques learned in class to create a stronger draft.  \nThis workshop is open to writers of all skill levels with work ready to edit. \nIn this class\, you will:  \n\nGain new editing strategies to pack powerful prose onto each page\nGive and receive on-the-spot editing suggestions\nLearn to sift through feedback to keep what’s useful \n\n\nMary Helen Stefaniak’s new novel\, The World of Pondside\, was released by Blackstone Publishing in April 2022. Booklist has said of the novel—a mystery set in a nursing home—that “Stefaniak infuses an often forbidding environment with joy and dignity in this Agatha Christie-esque cyber caper.” Mary Helen’s first book of nonfiction\, The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life\, was published by The University of Iowa Press in Fall 2022. The essays are selected from more than 20 years’ worth of monthly columns she wrote for The Iowa Source. Mary Helen Stefaniak is a writer of fiction and essays whose work has appeared in many publications\, including The Iowa Review\, EPOCH\, The Yale Review\, AGNI\,  The Antioch Review\, and in several anthologies. You can read more about Mary Helen and her work at https://maryhelenstefaniak.com.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/spot-revision-with-mary-helen-stefaniak/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230603T120000
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SUMMARY:'Tell All the Truth\, but Tell It Slant:' Writing About Trauma with Thomas McNeely
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, June 3\, 10\, 17 & 24\, 10am-12pm CST via Zoom\nInstructor: Thomas McNeely\nNonmember: $150; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nHow do we tell the story of a traumatic event or its aftermath?  What if\, after the event\, we were silenced by others or just by our own inability to put the experience into words? \n  \nIn this generative course\, we will experiment with different approaches to narrating real or fictional trauma while keeping in mind that each traumatic experience suggests a variety of different stories and may be narrated in a variety of different ways. We will explore writing different versions of the same story and decide which form–poem\, short story\, novel\, memoir\, or a hybrid of any of these narrative approaches–will best capture the traumatic experience and its after effects.  \nOur approaches will be based on short excerpts from work by Sylvia Plath\, Brian Teare\, Ocean Vuong\, Mary Karr\, Eimear McBride\, and other creative writers\, and will incorporate ideas from trauma narrative theorists and researchers\, including Cathy Caruth and Bessel van der Kolk. \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels. \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following: \n\nAn understanding of how to write about trauma and its impact\nIdeas on which narrative form can best capture the traumatic experience \nA starting place for their own piece of writing \n\n\n\nAn East Side Houston native\, THOMAS H. McNEELY has received National Endowment for the Arts\, Wallace Stegner\, MacDowell Colony\, and Dobie Paisano fellowships for his fiction. Pictures of the Shark: Stories (Texas Review Press) is his second book.  His first book\, Ghost Horse\, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic\, Texas Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and many other magazines and anthologies\, including The Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books’ Best of the South. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award anthologies. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College\, Boston\, and has led writing workshops at the Grub Street Writers Workshops\, the Lighthouse Writers Workshops\, the Writers’ League of Texas\, Writespace Houston\, and Inprint Houston.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230606T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230606T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125246
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SUMMARY:The Creative Writer’s Professional Toolkit with Lyzette Wanzer
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, June 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 & July 11\, 18\, 6:30-8:30pm CST via Zoom\nInstructor: Lyzette Wanzer\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nAre you ready to take the leap from writing hobbyist to professional writer? If so\, gain the tools every professional writer needs to make it in a competitive field.\nThis intensive hands-on workshop will provide you with the career savvy you need to stand out from the crowd of writers who\, though they may be talented\, lack the marketplace acumen they need to boost their opportunities from good to great. Learn a comprehensive set of professional practices that translate your talent into actionable\, real-world skills for elevating your literary career. Learn how to increase your chances of earning grants\, landing residencies\, and getting published.  \nOver the course of this workshop\, you will acquire the practices and strategies you need to take advantage of scores of opportunities for your work–skills you can put into immediate effect! After completing this course\, many students have garnered their first literary grant\, writing conference invitation\, or publication credit. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nA short & long bio\nA current writer’s curriculum vitae/resume that will get you noticed\nIdeas for keeping track of professional achievements and updating your CV\n\n\nLyzette Wanzer is a San Francisco writer\, editor\, and writing workshop instructor. She received her MFA in Fiction from Mills College. A flash fiction connoisseur and essay aficionado\, her work has appeared in Natural Bridge\, The Los Angeles Review\, Callaloo\, Tampa Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ampersand Review\, Journal of Advanced Development\, Fourteen Hills\, Journal of Experimental Fiction\, Pleiades\, Flashquake\, Glossalia Flash Fiction\, Potomac Review\, International Journal on Literature and Theory\, Fringe Magazine\, and many others. She is a contributor to Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth From the Margins (Wayne State University Press 2022)\, The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie 2012)\, Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the San Francisco Bay Area (Pease Press 2019)\, and 642 Tiny Things to Write About (Chronicle Books 2015). Her articles have appeared in Essay Daily\, The Naked Truth\, and the San Francisco University High School Journal. Lyzette is the current judge of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay category and the Women’s National Book Association’s Effie Lee Morris Writing Contest’s nonfiction category. \nLyzette has been invited to present her work and/or panels at conferences across the country\, including the American and Popular Culture Association\, Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)\, College English Association (CEA)\, Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900\, Litquake Festival\, San Francisco Writers Conference\, and others.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writers-professional-toolkit/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230607T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230607T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125246
CREATED:20230414T164406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230602T165603Z
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SUMMARY:How Writers Read with Bestselling Author Laura Castoro
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, June 7\, 14\, 21\, 28 & July 12\, 19\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid: Via Zoom or in person.\nInstructor: Laura Castoro\nNonmember: $155; Member: $135; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nHave you ever read a great book that grabs you from the first page and wondered\, “How did the author do that?” Reading can be a writer’s greatest teacher when it comes to learning what works and doesn’t work on the page. \n\nIn this 6-week workshop\, with bestselling author Laura Castoro as our guide\, we will use close reading to examine how the writing pros achieve enviable work. We will explore how to read more deeply so we can deconstruct how the author sets the mood\, adheres to or manipulates conventions\, and plays with boundaries. In each session\, we will use excerpts from popular fiction books and short writing prompts to stimulate our imagination and inspire new written work.   \nThis course is open to adult writers of all skill levels.  \nIn this course\, students will: \n\nExplore how to effectively set the mood of a story to draw the reader in\nIdentify how writers manipulate conventions and play with boundaries\nLearn what is and is not important to the reader\nImmediately apply concepts using short\, generative writing prompts\n\nRead Laura’s Writer’s Desk interview HERE.\n\nLaura Castoro\, a USA Today\, Amazon top 100\, and Apple Books bestseller\, has published 47 novels with major publishing houses such as Dell Books\, Berkley\, Avon\, Warner\, MIRA\, Harlequin\, Kensington\, Pocketbooks\, St\, Harper Collins\, Martins Press\, and William Morrow. She has also contributed to several fiction anthologies and has published non-fiction YA and short fiction in Good Housekeeping. Under the name Laura Parker\, she writes historical and contemporary romance\, westerns\, and sagas. As Laura Castoro\, she writes contemporary African American and contemporary women’s fiction. Writing as D. D. Ayres\, she publishes a romantic suspense series called the K-9 Rescue Series. Her current release as Laura Castoro is Love On The Line (2021) through William Morrow. \nLaura has won multiple national writing awards. In 2005 she was inducted into the Arkansas Writers’ Hall of Fame. She is a past president of Novelists\, Inc. (2013)\, an international professional fiction writers’ organization. She is a past president and board member of the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow\, a writer residency program in the AR Ozarks. She is a speaker at numerous conferences and workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Laura currently lives in San Antonio\, TX.  Visit www.ddayres.com.\n \n\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/how-writers-read/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230621T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230621T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125246
CREATED:20230530T183201Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Richard Z. Santos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 21\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Richard Z. Santos\, author of the novel\, Trust Me.\nModerated by Daniel Peña.\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for ​Trust Me \nOne of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year for The Millions and Crime Reads. \nCrime Reads (One of March’s Best): “… the author’s knowledge of Santa Fe and its quirky denizens shines throughout the book. Highly recommended!” \nKirkus Reviews: “A compulsively readable debut by a Texas writer who knows his New Mexico.“ \nThe Texas Observer: “[Trust Me] has enough speed and twists to make you feel like you’re flying on the edges of the Sandia mountains… “ \nCharles O’Connell is riding an epic losing streak. Having worked in politics since college\, he is used to losing races\, but he never imagined that his most recent candidate would end up in jail and that he would also need an attorney. His euphoria at not joining his boss in prison is short-lived—no one will hire him now\, his credit cards are maxed out and his marriage is on the rocks. \nAn unexpected offer to work in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, doing public relations for a firm building the city’s new airport feels like an opportunity to start fresh and make connections with powerful people out west. But when the construction crew unearths a skeleton\, Charles’ fresh start turns into another disaster. Soon\, a group of Apache claims the site holds Geronimo’s secret grave. \nCharles quickly realizes everyone has an agenda—and numerous dark secrets threaten to erupt. Gabriel Luna\, one of the laborers present when the skeleton is unearthed\, is willing to do just about anything to reconnect with his teenage son. Cody Branch\, an ambitious\, powerful millionaire\, plans to leverage the deal to enrich himself. And there’s his wife\, Olivia Branch\, who has a surprising connection to Charles’ past and desperately needs his help. \nSurrounded by deception on all fronts\, including his own lies to himself and his wife\, Charles falls into a whirlwind of fraud\, betrayal and double crosses. This riveting novel barrels through the New Mexican landscape in an exploration of innocence and guilt\, power and wealth\, and the search for love and happiness. \nExcerpts featured in Criminal Element and Lone Star Literary.  \n\n\n\nRichard Z. Santos is a writer and high school teacher living in Austin. His debut novel\, Trust Me\, was released by Arte Público Press in 2020. He is a Board Member of the National Book Critics Circle and served as a non-fiction judge for the 2019 Kirkus Prize. ​He is also an Associate Editor for American Short Fiction. Click on the “My Work” page for links to many essays\, stories\, poems\, reviews\, and profiles. Before becoming a writer and teacher\, Richard lived in Washington\, DC and worked for some of the nation’s top campaigns\, political consulting firms\, and labor unions. Richard has an MFA from Texas State University and has taught at Texas State\, Georgetown University\, and The University of the District of Columbia. He is currently seeking representation for his second novel: Every Family Is A Conspiracy Theory.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Assistant Professor. Formerly\, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City where he worked as Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar. A graduate of Cornell University and a former Picador Guest Professor in Leipzig\, Germany\, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares\, The Rumpus\, the Kenyon Review\, Texas Monthly\, NBC News\, and The New York Times Magazine among other venues. He’s currently a regular contributor to The Guardian and the Ploughshares blog. His novel\, Bang\, is out now from Arte Publico Press. He lives in the beautiful Dallas-Fort Worth area.\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUPCOMING 2023 AUTHORS AND TITLES \nJuly Jehanne Dubrow–Taste: A Book of Small Bites  \nAugust Ruben Degollado–The Family Izquierdo \nSeptember Thomas McNeely–Pictures of the Shark  \nOctober Katie Guttierrez–TBA \nNovember Carmen Tafolla–Girl Warrior (Sept 2023 – Penguin)  \nDecember TBA \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-richard-z-santos/
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230629T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230629T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125246
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SUMMARY:Writing the Queer in Hostile Times: A Pride Month Literary Panel
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, June 29th\, to wrap up Pride Month 2023 with a timely and intimate literary discussion about current events and their relationship to the written and spoken word.  \nThis event\, including featured authors Chibbi Orduña\, Kit Curá\, and Anel I. Flores\, will offer a safe space to discuss how these divisive times affect LGBTQ+ writers and how these writers wield the literary arts to push back against current hostilities\, celebrate who they are\, and question societal expectations. Moderated by Mary Reading. \n\nKit Curá (they/them) is a nonbinary butch lesbian currently living in Houston\, Texas. Originally from Buenos Aires\, Argentina\, they moved to the United States at the age of six\, yet they diligently cultivate a connection to their Latine heritage and identity. A graduate of Trinity University (with a B.A. in English) and Texas State University (with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing)\, Curá ultimately aims to use their passions for creating\, community outreach\, and LGBTQ storytelling to uplift queer and trans youth (particularly those from underrepresented communities) through the stories that they create\, telling them: “we are worth fighting for\, protecting\, and loving; and\, if no one else is willing to do these things for us\, then we will do them for each other.” \nAnel I. Flores is a trans-\, queer Latina/x writer\, artist\, activist and life-coach. They are a visionary creative whose extensive body of work captures the essence of LGBTQIA+ experiences. Her contributions to art\, education\, literature\, advocacy\, and community-building have left an indelible mark. Anel’s areas of expertise encompass various themes such as Latina/x literature\, sexuality\, gender\, race/border/diaspora\, spirituality\, body\, and blood memory. With an MFA in Creative Writing\, Anel I. Flores is a highly accomplished author\, having penned notable works like chapbook titled “La Fea” and the Lambda literary award-nominated book\, “Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas.” Additionally\, her upcoming novel\, “Cortinas de Lluvia\,” is set to be released in 2024 along with the 2nd edition of Empanada\, doubled with a Spanish translation. Anel’s literary contributions can be found in esteemed publications such as Switchgrass Review\, Camino Real\, the Fifth Wednesday Journal\, RiverSEdge\, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche\, Rooted: Queer Women of Color Anthology\, Sinister Wisdom\, Raspa Magazine\, iungo Arts Magazine\, the Lodestar Quarterly\, The Pitkin Literary Review\, and La Voz. \nM.R. “Chibbi” Orduña is a Mexican-born\, Texas-raised queer poet\, performer\, publisher\, producer and community organizer\, Editor in Chief & Director of Virtual Programming at Write About Now Publishing and The Mixtape Literary Journal\, and director and co-host of the Words and Sh*t and After 2 Tequila Shots podcasts. They are a 2022 Tin House fellow\, and have self-published 2 books\, been a finalist for the 2021 Wax Nine Chapbook Competition and 2022 Robert Phillips Chapbook Competition\, and the co-editor of the anthology Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out (Flowersong Press\, 2020). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Texas Review\, Wax Wing\, Los Angeles Poet Society\, Acentos Review\, The Latino Book Review Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, We are Mitu\, and Button Poetry. Their videos have over 1 million views across social media platforms. You can find them on IG @gemineyes and on Twitter @gemineyespoetry. \nMary Reading teaches English and Literature classes at Northwest Vista Colleges. A Pennsylvania native\, Mary is currently working on her PhD in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The title of their dissertation is “Transformation: From Drag to Transgender Representation in Film and Television.” Their prospective graduation date is December 2023. They enjoy spending time with their cats and dog\, Brie\, Feta\, and Gouda\, and traveling in their free time. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writing-the-queer-in-hostile-times/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230701T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230701T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125246
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SUMMARY:How to Use Lists to Generate Endless Writing Ideas with Nathan Brown
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, July 1 & 8\, 10am-1pm CST\, Hybrid (in-person and online)\nInstructor: Nathan Brown\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \n  \nMaster the art of the list and never get caught without something to write about! \n  \nMany writers\, from Dickens to Twain\, and Hemingway on up to Stephen King\, had (or have) a daily writing practice\, and many say this discipline was their ‘great teacher’ when it comes to the craft of writing. In this open genre workshop\, we will demystify the idea of “writer’s block\,” explore techniques to maintain a sustainable daily writing practice\, and discuss what works and doesn’t work for busy writers. This will be a generative workshop\, so you will leave this workshop with plenty of ideas.  \nThis course is open to adult writers of all genres and all skill levels.  \nStudents will leave this workshop with the following:  \n\nIdeas on how to use lists to generate material and organize it into “themes” \nGuidance on how to establish and maintain a daily writing practice \nTime management tips on scheduling “bite-sized” writing time and getting the work done\nWriting topics to explore and develop after the class\n\n\nNathan Brown is an author\, songwriter\, and award-winning poet living in Wimberley\, Texas. He holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma\, where he’s taught for over 20 years. He served as Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma in 2013-14\, and now travels full-time performing readings\, concerts\, workshops\, and speaking on creativity\, poetry\, and songwriting. \nNathan has published over 20 books. Most recent are his new collection of poems\, In the Days for Our Resilience\, the fourth in a series now known as the Pandemic Poems Project\, and a new travel memoir\, Just Another Honeymoon in France: A Vagabond at Large. A previous collection\, Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems\, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Oklahoma Book Award. \nHe’s written at least one poem a day for the last twenty-five years and says nothing has taught him more about writing. \n\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/generate-endless-writing-ideas/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230706T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230706T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125246
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230706T153314Z
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SUMMARY:TELLING A STORY OF YOUR LIFE: A Personal Essay Workshop with Kendra Allen
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 & Aug 3\, 10\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid: Via Zoom or in person.\nInstructor: Kendra Allen\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full\nTo add your name to the waiting list\, email joshua@geminiink.org. \n  \nIn the span of every life are countless moments\, stories\, and revelations. When writing a personal narrative\, how do writers select what will most speak their truth and resonate with readers?\n  \nIn this 6-week course\, we’ll focus on demystifying the personal narrative process by figuring out what’s a snapshot and what’s a story. Writing is hard\, and writing about yourself is sometimes even harder. Most times\, we typically assume we have to state our entire lives in one piece\, so even the thought of putting pen to page becomes intimidating. This workshop will explore how to pinpoint storylines within ourselves by simply leaning into who you naturally are\, how you naturally sound\, and what you naturally gravitate to\, as a writer. Through games\, prompts\, and other exercises\, we’ll focus on generating work every week\, searching for our many truths\, and coming out on the other side with sentences that start with words like “I” and “My.” This course is open to adult writers of all skill levels.   \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following: \n\nA starting point for a personal essay\nAn understanding of how to differentiate between a situation and a story\nTechniques for nurturing your voice on the page\nIdeas on how to create prompts for yourself to generate material\n\nRead Kendra’s Writer’s Desk here!\n\nAn award-winning essayist and poet\, Kendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas\, TX. She loves laughing\, leaving\, and writing Make Love in My Car\, a music column for Southwest Review. Some of her other work can be found in The Paris Review\, High Times\, The Rumpus\, and more. She’s the author of the New York Times lauded poetry collection The Collection Plate (Harper Collins 2022) and essay collection When You Learn the Alphabet\, which won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. Fruit Punch (Ecco 2022)\, her memoir\, is out now and receiving praise from all corners. Jaquira Díaz\, author of Ordinary Girls\, states: “A stunning and original memoir about Black girlhood and coming of age. Allen is both a storyteller and poet\, observing the world with curiosity and humor. Fruit Punch is simultaneously brilliant cultural commentary and an intimate portrayal of family and community\, and it will stay with me for a long\, long time.” \n\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/telling-a-story-of-your-life/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230710T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230710T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125246
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SUMMARY:The Poetry of Food with Eddie Vega 
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, July 10\, 17\, 24 & 31\, 2023\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Eddie Vega\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nFood is much more than sustenance–it’s family recipes\, friend-filled reunions\, and debates over who makes it best\, who made it right\, and why ketchup can’t be spread on tamales! Most importantly\, food is culture. This workshop will explore all of this and more as participants write about the dishes\, meals\, and snacks that have impacted their palate and their lives. \nIn this 4-session workshop\, we will dig up memories we associate with food\, and use these recollections to explore writing about the delectable in different poetic forms\, including haiku\, odes\, sonnets\, lists\, etc. Each session will include mentor texts and generative work. This course is open to adult writers of all skill levels.  \nStudents will leave this course with: \n\nSuggestions on how to capture the essence and meaning of food\nKnowledge of and experience with writing in different poetic forms \nUnderstanding of how personal history and culture influence how we perceive food\n\nRead Eddie’s Writer’s Desk here!\n\nEddie Vega is a poet\, spoken word artist\, storyteller\, and educator. His poetry has been displayed on VIA Buses and downtown San Antonio buildings. His first full-length collection of poetry\, Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press) was published in 2019 and he is the 2021 recipient of the Literary Arts Grant from the Luminaria Artist Foundation. In 2022\, Vega won the Haiku Death Match at both the Southern Fried Poetry Slam and the NSFPS BlackBerry Peach Slam. His latest project is a collection of poems written by South Texas poets entitled\, Asina is How We Talk. Vega writes about food\, Tejano culture\, social justice\, and the intersections thereof. Known as the Taco-Poet of Texas\, he can be found nightly at an open-mic\, slam\, or taqueria anywhere throughout South Texas. \n\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/poetry-of-food/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230719T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230719T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125246
CREATED:20230707T154953Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring  Jehanne Dubrow
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nWednesday\, July 19\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Jehanne Dubrow’s Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press\, 2022).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Taste: \nTaste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses\, which we often take for granted. Structured as a series of “small bites\,” the book considers the ways that we ingest the world\, how we come to know ourselves and others through the daily act of tasting. \nThrough flavorful explorations of the sweet\, the sour\, the salty\, the bitter\, and umami\, Jehanne Dubrow reflects on the nature of taste. In a series of short\, interdisciplinary essays\, she blends personal experience with analysis of poetry\, fiction\, music\, and the visual arts\, as well as religious and philosophical texts. Dubrow considers the science of taste and how taste transforms from a physical sensation into a metaphor for discernment. \nTaste is organized not so much as a linear dinner served in courses but as a meal consisting of meze\, small plates of intensely flavored discourse. \n\n\n\n\nJehanne Dubrow is the author of nine books of poems\, including most recently\, Wild Kingdom (LSU Press\, 2021)\, and two books of creative nonfiction\, throughsmoke: an essay in notes (New Rivers Press\, 2019)\, and Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press\, 2022). Her third book of nonfiction\, Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity\, is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press in 2023. Her previous poetry collections are Simple Machines\, American Samizdat\, Dots & Dashes\, The Arranged Marriage\, Red Army Red\, Stateside\, From the Fever-World\, and The Hardship Post. She has co-edited two anthologies\, The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume and Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse.  \nJehanne’s poems have appeared in POETRY\, Poetry Northwest\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, Southern Review\, American Life in Poetry\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Slowdown\, The Academy of American Poets\, as well as on Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, and in numerous other venues. Recent essays have appeared in The New England Review\, Colorado Review\, The Common\, The Seneca Review\, Image\, and West Branch. She is the founding editor of the national literary journal\, Cherry Tree. \nJehanne earned a B.A. in the “Great Books” from St. John’s College\, an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland\, an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  \nJehanne’s writing moves between traditional forms\, free verse\, prose poetry\, lyric essay\, autotheory\, and personal essay. In Stateside and Dots & Dashes (and in her current manuscript-in-progress\, Civilians)\, she examines her experiences as a military spouse and explores the tradition of war literature. In books like The Arranged Marriage\, From the Fever-World\, and The Hardship Post\, she writes about the Holocaust\, American Jewish identity\, intergenerational trauma\, and the challenges of representing violence on the page. Her collections\, Wild Kingdom\, Simple Machines\, American Samizdat\, and Red Army Red\, consider the intersection of power\, cruelty\, and authoritarianism. Jehanne is also passionate about the five senses; she has written about the art and science of perfume in throughsmoke: an essay in notes and about our sense of taste in Taste: A Book of Small Bites. And\, in her forthcoming Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity\, she looks at the act of looking itself. \nJehanne has been a recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America\, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry from Beloit Poetry Journal\, the Crab Orchard Series Open Competition Book Award\, the Diode Editions Book Contest\, the Editors’ Prize in Prose from Bat City Review\, the Firecracker Award in Prose from CLMP\, an Individual Artist’s Award from the Maryland State Arts Council\, the Mississippi Review Prize in Poetry\, the Poetry by the Sea Book Award\, the Towson University Prize for Literature\,  a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and a Howard Nemerov Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and a Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. \nThe daughter of American diplomats\, Jehanne was born in Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia\, Zaire\, Poland\, Belgium\, Austria\, and the United States. She lives with her two Bedlington Terriers and with her husband who recently retired from a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy. Jehanne is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
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SUMMARY:Generative Flash Fiction with Andrew Porter 
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Aug 1  & 8\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (via Zoom and in-person at Gemini Ink)\nInstructor: Andrew Porter\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE.\nClass closed. To add your name to the waiting list\, please contact joshua@geminiink.org. \nQuick consumption–that is how today’s audiences engage with all forms of media and entertainment. This makes flash fiction an ideal form for readers who want to go on a short but thrilling ride in less than 1\,500 words. But how does a writer tell a potent and satisfactory story in such a short form? \nIn this introductory workshop\, participants will study different types of flash fiction\, discuss effective strategies for working within the constraints of this form\, and complete in-class writing prompts with the goal of developing these exercises into more polished flash pieces. Finally\, for those interested in sharing\, time will be set aside during the second class for students to share their flash-in-progress with the group. \nStudents will leave this workshop with the following: \n\nAn understanding of the fundamentals of flash fiction\nStrategies for generating successful flash fiction\nA first-draft flash fiction piece\n\nRead Andrew’s Writer’s Desk here!\n\nANDREW PORTER is the acclaimed\, award-winning author of the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf 2023) and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage)\, and the novel In Between Days (Knopf). An Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate\, he has received a Pushcart Prize\, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story\, The Threepenny Review\, Ploughshares\, Narrative\, The Southern Review\, and on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Currently\, he teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas. \n\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/generative-flash-fiction/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Strange Family Stories: An Adult Picture Book Writing Class with Xavier Garza
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Aug 2\, 9 & 16\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (via Zoom and in-person at Gemini Ink)\nInstructor: Xavier Garza\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nLa Llorona\, the Chupacabra\, the Haunted Train Tracks of San Antonio\, the power of the all healing Huevo\, or that crazy story about a relative who had a close encounter of the mysterious kind. We all have strange stories that have been passed down\, and this workshop is a chance to memorialize one story for future generations. What better way to bring this story to life than a picture book for adults?  \nIn this three-week class\, students will draw from their family stories\, popular folklore\, superstitions\, and creepy creature legends to create their own picture book for adults. Participants will take these entertaining stories\, divide them into sections\, align the story with drawings and other media\, and create a memento to pass down. The class will also touch on bookbinding and publishing.  \nThis course is open to adult writers of all skill levels. Workshop materials will be provided for those who take the class in person. For those joining online\, a suggested materials list will be provided.  \nStudents will leave this workshop with: \n\nA new type of storytelling that balances images and words\nAn understanding of picture book formats and rules\nA picture book in progress that can be completed at home\nIdeas on bookbinding and publishing\n\n\nXavier Garza was born in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He is an enthusiastic author\, artist\, teacher and storyteller whose work is a lively documentation of life\, dreams\, superstitions\, and heroes in the bigger-than-life world of South Texas. Garza has exhibited his art and performed his stories in venues throughout Texas\, Arizona\, and the state of Washington. He has received such recognitions as the Pura Belpre Honor book and the Libro de las Americas Honor book awards. He lives with his wife and son in San Antonio\, Texas\, and is the author of numerous books. \n\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/strange-family-stories/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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