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SUMMARY:Start and Run Your Own Publishing Business with Maria Maloney
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Sept 5\, 12\, 19 & 26\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Maria Miranda Maloney\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n\n\n\n  \nDo you want to leave your imprint on your literary community? \nDo you want to run your own press or independent publishing house\, but don’t know where to begin? Or are you currently in the publishing business but looking for ways to bolster your publication process\, marketing\, and distribution?  \nIn this course\, we will study various successful small-to-mid-size publishers and walk through the steps of starting or growing a small press. This process will include developing a mission statement\, exploring resources\, producing an operating budget\, creating a customer profile\, and discussing distribution options. We will use these elements to build a business plan that will help you execute your vision. \nThis course is for anyone who has dreamed of starting their own press or is curious to explore different ways to impact their literary communities. This class is also for established publishers looking for new business ideas.  \nCourse Learning Objectives \n\nAssess your interest and strengths to launch a publishing business. \nDevelop a mission serving a unique\, underserved\, or underdeveloped niche.\nUnderstand your customer and target market.\nIntegrate financial facets into your development plan.\nDraft a business plan. \n\n\n\nMaria Miranda Maloney is an entrepreneur\, writer\, editor\, and publisher. She founded Mouthfeel Press\, a small for-profit\, mission-driven publishing house\, in 2009 in El Paso\, Texas. Before launching her press\, Maria worked as a consultant and project manager in public relations\, sales\, and small business development sectors. She has over sixteen years of experience in publishing\, has coordinated publishing and writing workshops for the Wise Latina International organization\, and was the Ofstad Writing Scholar at Truman State University in 2019. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and is finishing her M.A. in Publishing from George Washington University in Washington\, D.C. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/start-and-run-your-own-publishing-business-with-maria-maloney/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
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SUMMARY:Weaving Across Languages: A Poetry Workshop with Octavio Quintanilla
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Sept 12\, 19 & 26\, 2023 6:30pm-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (in-person at Gemini Ink and online via Zoom)\nInstructor: Octavio Quintanilla\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n\n  \n\nSlang\, dialects\, common expressions\, codeswitching\, and every variation of language from across the world. Translanguage captures the rich variety of how people express themselves. It taps into culture\, family\, all the places we’ve lived\, and our own linguistic quirks. \nIn this three-session workshop\, participants will study the poetry of writers who use translanguaging to infuse their work with a unique voice. Participants will identify and explore all of the languages that are part of who they are\, and use prompts to write poems that weave in their linguistic identity. This workshop will also include techniques for effective revision and editing.  \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill levels\, 18+. This course does not require fluency in more than one language\, but multilingual students are highly encouraged to register. \nIn this course\, students will: \n\n\n\nExplore variations of language \nLearn techniques for applying translanguaging to your own work\nGenerate new poems and receive feedback for revision\n\n\n\n\nOctavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collection\, If I Go Missing\, the founder and director of the literature & arts festival\, VersoFrontera\, publisher of Alabrava Press\, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. His new poetry collection\, The Book of Wounded Sparrows\, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in fall 2024. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. \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/weaving-across-languages/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Big Give 2023
DESCRIPTION:Big Give 2023 will return for our 10th anniversary of fundraising success on Wednesday\, September 20 at 6 PM thru Thursday\, September 21\, at 6 PM.\nDonate\n\n\n\nThis year\, all donations from The Big Give are in support of the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund! Gemini Ink established the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund for emerging writers in honor of esteemed journalist Cary Clack\, a beloved member of the Gemini Ink board. Cary Clack was born and raised in San Antonio. Cary Clack is a journalist and editorial board member with the San Antonio Express-News where he was the first Black metro desk journalist. He has covered local and national news\, events\, and social issues for three decades. He is the author of Clowns and Rats Scare Me and More Finish Lines to Cross. In 2017\, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. \n$5\,000 in scholarships will help 40 San Antonians bring their stories to life by allowing them to take our Public Writing Classes for free\, and with your support\, we can make this happen! Plus\, incredible news: This year\, we have a $2\,500 match from Nancy T. Shivers\, doubling the impact of your donations. Help us reach our $5\,000 goal and support the Gemini Ink Cary Clack Scholarship Fund\, enabling emerging writers in our city to bring their stories to life. \nGemini Ink’s mission is to teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life. As San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center\, we provide a supportive home for readers and writers of all levels through our online and in-person workshops and literary community. We believe everyone has a story and writing that story is powerful. Our strategic vision is to teach 12\,000 people how to bring their stories to life by 2024. \nAnyone can apply to the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund. Learn more about our scholarships at https://geminiink.org/scholarships. \n\n\n\n\n\nMatches\n\n\n\n\n\nNancy T. Shivers\n\nThis year\, Gemini Ink has the opportunity to make our Big Give donations go twice as far with $2\,500 match from Nancy T. Shivers in support of the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-give/
LOCATION:TX
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Thomas H. McNeely
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nRSVP to join us for our Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink \nWednesday\, September 20th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Thomas H. McNeely’s story collection\, Pictures of the Shark. Stephanie Reents is the moderator.\n\n\n\n2023 Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction\n2023 Houston Chronicle Notable Book\n2023 Massachusetts Book Award Must-Read\n\n\n\n\n\n“An emotionally taut and often haunting collection.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“[An] always compelling novel in short stories.”\n—Foreword Reviews \n“[A] powerful family portrait … heartbreaking authenticity.”\n—Booklist \n“A tightly written and often emotionally gripping collection.”\n—Lone Star Literary Life \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sudden snowfall in Houston reveals family secrets. A trip to Universal Studios to snap a picture of the shark from Jaws becomes a battle of wills between father and son. A midnight séance and the ghost of Janis Joplin conjure the mysteries of sex. A young boy’s pilgrimage to see Elvis Presley becomes a moment of transformation. A young woman discovers the responsibilities of talent and freedom. \n\nPictures of the Shark\, by award-winning Houston writer Thomas H. McNeely\, moves from its protagonist Buddy Turner’s surreal world of childhood into the wider arenas of sex\, addiction\, art\, and ambition. Appearing in the country’s finest literary journals\, including Ploughshares\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, Epoch\, and Crazyhorse\, shortlisted for the O. Henry Award\, Best American Short Stories\, and Pushcart Prize collections\, the stories in Pictures of the Shark are gems that refract their characters’ complex relationships.\n\n\nAn East Side Houston native\, THOMAS H. McNEELY has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic\, Texas Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and many other magazines and anthologies\, including 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 has received National Endowment for the Arts\, Wallace Stegner\, and MacDowell Colony fellowships for his fiction. His first book\, Ghost Horse\, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College\, Boston. \n\nStephanie Reents received a BA from Amherst College\, a second BA from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and an MFA from University of Arizona. She is the author of The Kissing List\, a collection of connected stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review\, and I Meant to Kill Ye\, a bibliomemoir that is an account of her journey into the strange voice at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. She has twice been awarded an O. Henry prize for her short fiction. Her novel I Loved to Run is under contract at Penguin Random House.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-thomas-h-mcneely/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:Luminescence and Grit: An Evening with Gemini Ink Teaching Artists\, followed by a Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, September 21st\, for a night of poetry\, prose\, and performance as we celebrate the personal artistry of our Gemini Ink Partner Class teaching artists. Every day these instructors bring their passion for the writing arts to community spaces and inspire students of all ages. Tonight we hear their stories! \nOur featured writers will include theater artist and playwright Marisela Barrera\, accomplished poet and educator Jim LaVilla-Havelin\, award-winning fiction writer Desiree Kannel\, and local poet and member of the Wyrdd Writers collective Annie Snider. \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.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/luminescence-and-grit-reading/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:In the Age of Social Media: A Literary Video Lab with Joyous Windrider Jimenez
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, Sep 21\, 28 & Oct 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Joyous Windrider Jimenez\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \n  \nIn the age of TikTok\, Instagram reels\, and YouTube shorts\, how can you present your writing in a way that’s on trend and easily consumable? Would you like to use your digital platform to showcase your work in a new way and expand your audience?  \nIn this 6-week course\, we will use simple\, open-genre writing prompts to generate short poems and/or impactful prose. We will polish our short pieces and explore gathering images that will visually accentuate our words. We will then create short literary videos that include an audio recording of the work\, captions\, and either moving or still images. Our entire project will be built and edited using a FREE video editing app available for phones and laptops! \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill levels\, 18+. Students are welcome to bring in previously written work or images they want to transform. \nIn this course\, students will leave with: \n\nAt least one drafted 1-minute poetry/prose video.\nSeveral short written pieces that can be used for future videos.\nTools and knowledge to continue the Literary Video process independently.\nAn additional way to connect audiences to your writing that isn’t publication or a public reading.\n\nJoyous Windrider Jiménez is an improv & performance poet\, teatrista\, mixed-media visual artist and video creator who blends performance and visual elements. During the pandemic\, she directed and edited a video adaptation of an original operetta for the Jump-Start Performance Co’s INKubator series\, and had her time-lapse video poem Quarantine is a Dragon screened at the Roxie Theater’s 2020 virtual summer film festival\, Mixtape-In-Place. She also moved into video lessons for children in quarantine for the San Antonio Museum of Art\, Gemini Ink\, and SAISD. In 2022 and 2023 her video poetry was streamed for Urban 15’s annual global poetry streaming event\, MegaCorazon. \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/in-the-age-of-social-media-a-literary-video-lab/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Cosmic Memory Map with Anel I. Flores
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Sep 30\, from 10am-2pm CST (with 1-hour lunch)\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Anel I. Flores\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \n  \nWelcome to the Cosmic Memory Map Workshop\, a transformative journey into the depths of your “autohisteorías\,” Led by Xicane\, Queer\, Trans author and artist Anel I. Flores. We invite you to embark on a day of self-discovery\, empowerment\, and creative expression collectively. \nIn this immersive workshop\, we will explore the intersection of memory and the cosmos\, delving into the cosmic tapestry that shapes our individual narratives. Drawing inspiration from real-life experiences\, we will learn techniques to extract the essence of our stories\, weaving them into vibrant tapestries of imagination and emotion. \nThrough guided writing exercises\, group discussions\, and reflective meditations\, we will navigate the cosmic landscape of our memories\, unearthing hidden gems and untold tales. Together\, we will celebrate the power of diverse voices\, honoring the richness of our cultural heritage and the complexities of our identities. \nNo matter your writing background or level of experience\, this workshop is a safe and inclusive space for all two-spirit\, trans\, queer\, LGBTQIA+ individuals.   \nIn this workshop\, participants will: \n\nLeave with a fresh perspective on memory\nGenerate at least 20 new story ideas\nDraft the beginnings of 1 to 2 new stories\nConnect with like-minded writers\n\n\nAnel I. Flores is a trans-\, queer Latina/x writer\, artist\, activist\, entrepreneur\, and coach\, whose extensive body of work captures the essence of LGBTQIA+ experiences across professional and community spaces. Their areas of expertise encompass various themes such as Latina/x literature\, sexuality\, gender\, race/border/diaspora\, spirituality\, self-discovery\, and radical love.  \nThey hold an MFA in Creative Writing\, having penned notable works like the chapbook La Fea and Lambda literary award-nominated book\, Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas. Their upcoming novel\, Cortinas de Lluvia\, set to be released in 2024\, along with Empanada’s 2nd Ed.\, doubled with its 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\, and others. Furthermore\, Flores is the founder of LezRideSA\, Queer Voices Speak Out\, and La Otra Taller Nepantla Residency. 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/cosmic-memory-map-with-anel-i-flores/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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