Making a Scene – A Prose Workshop with Kurt Caswell

Most of us understand that making a scene is not what you want to do when you’re in a grocery store or on an airplane. But in both fiction and nonfiction writing, good scene-making is fundamental to good storytelling. But what is a scene, and how do you make or write one? In this generative class, we’ll study a simple formula for scene writing, and practice it toward the completion of one or more stories or essays, novels or books of nonfiction. Come prepared to write dialogue, description, action, and your characters’ deepest darkest thoughts.

$165

Deadline to Apply to the 2022 Poetry Mentorship

Apply to the Gemini Ink 2022 Mentorship Program and be one of two writers chosen to work one-on-one with a published author. The 2022 Mentorship is dedicated to Poetry. We are delighted to announce that our mentor is award-winning author and seasoned writing teacher Laura Van Prooyen. The 2022 Gemini Ink Mentorship Program is open to poets of all levels from all 50 States. Mentee applications for Spring 2022 will be accepted Sept 1 thru Nov 15, 2021.

Recurring

Veteran’s Writing Collective with Sarah Colby

Online via Zoom

The Veteran’s Writing Collective encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest, positive, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military, veterans, retirees, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome.

Free

The Big Texas Read featuring Edward Vidaurre

Online via Zoom

UP NEXT:
November 17th, 2021 via Zoom @ 7PM CST
We’re reading and discussing celebrated poet Edward Vidaurre’s collection Pandemia & Other Poems. This session will be moderated by Aztlan Libre Press co-founder Juan Tejeda.

Free

Austin Bat Cave presents Story Department : Family Feud with San Antonio’s Gemini Ink

Carpenter Hotel 400 Josephine St, Austin, 78704, United States

Featuring writers Florinda Brown, Adam Soto, Leticia Urieta, and Eddie Vega. The Carpenter Hotel
Doors 7p // Storytelling 7:30p Tickets start at $10 online & at the door. ASL interpretation will be provided.
Proceeds support Austin Bat Cave’s tuition-free creative writing programs for young people in Central Texas.

This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

$10

Writing Gifts – A Workshop with Naomi Shihab Nye

Online via Zoom

Welcome! Our four-hour virtual poetry/paragraph workshop will focus on writing as a gift - to us, and from us to others. What do we already have in our vast realms of material? What new knowledge has been given to us during these past strange seasons? What have we left untouched for a long time? Where might we find a new treasure in what we thought we knew?

$150

The Big Texas Read featuring Sergio Troncoso

Online via Zoom

We're reading Sergio Troncoso's A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son. How does a Mexican-American, the son of immigrants, a child of the border, la frontera, leave home and move to the heart of gringo America?

Free

Holiday Party & Book Swap

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

RSVP   Mingle with fellow writers and literary fans for this festive in-person gathering and...

Free

The Attuned Art of Writing Dialogue with William Jack Sibley

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

Writing believable, memorable, smart dialogue is a frequent hurdle for many writers. Is it "real" – too much, too little, or simply the not quite right words conveying the not quite right essence? Tricky stuff. Take this opportunity to work closely with award-winning author and screenplay pro William Sibley to learn some expert advice on what makes for unique dialogue that "sells" the writing for the reader—whether for a novel, play, film, or TV series.

$150

The Big Texas Read featuring Deb Olin Unferth

Online via Zoom

We're reading and discussing Deb Olin Unferth's novel Barn 8 (Graywolf, 2020), named a best book of 2020 by NPR, Slate, Austin Chronicle, and Literary Hub. This session will be moderated by Elizabeth McCracken, the author of seven books, including Thunderstruck & Other Stories and The Souvenir Museum.

Free