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SUMMARY:Memory & Image: A Micro Memoir Workshop with Poet Joni Wallace
DESCRIPTION:Mondays Oct 2\, 9\, 16 & 23\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Joni Wallace\nNonmember: $150; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nSmall\, disconnected\, and incomplete–this is how personal memories often come to us. But how do we take these moments and turn them into something meaningful? In micro memoir\, a nonfiction piece is told in 200 words or less and is a perfect way to capture these tiny stories.  \nIn this generative four-week class\, we’ll explore micro memoir and how adding a visual component can add depth to personal stories. Beth Ann Fennelly\, Bianca Stone\, Karen Brennan\, and Octavio Quintanilla are just some writers whose work we will study. After discussing these works\, we will delve into our own memories\, learn to identify powerful moments and explore them through micro memoir and simple visual art exercises. \nThe final class project will be a short\, linked series of personal stories with visual elements. Students are encouraged to bring and use any art supplies they have around the house. \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill level\, 18+.  \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nA short series of micro-memoir accompanied by visual elements\nNew critical reading techniques\nResources for submitting written work\n\n\nJoni Wallace is the author of three books of poetry and a chapbook: LANDSCAPE WITH MISSING RIVER\, Barrow Street Press\, 2023; Kingdom Come Radio Show\, Barrow Street Press\, 2016; To the Lighthouse Award; Blinking Ephemeral Valentine\, Four Way Books\, 2011\, winner of the Levis Prize (selected by Mary Jo Bang); Redshift (chapbook)(Kore Press\, 2001). Her work has been featured by the Poetry Society of America and appears in journals such as Boston Review\, Conduit\, Connotations Press\, Gulf Coast\, and more. She explores micro memoir through her poetry\, and her sound and video work appears on textsound.org and in The Drunken Boat.  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/memory-image-a-micro-memoir-workshop/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
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SUMMARY:Breaking Through: A Conversation on Pathways to Publication for Latinx Writers
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public \nJoin Gemini Ink on Friday\, October 6th\, to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 with a timely and intimate literary discussion about current publishing trends and Latinx representation in books.\nThis event features Latinx authors and publishers and provides a space to discuss how to break barriers and create pathways toward publication in a literary landscape where Latinx writers account for only 7% of published authors. Our guests will talk about how they navigated the publishing industry and illuminate how Latinx writers can forge a path toward sharing their own stories.   \n\nModerator: \nNorma Elia Cantú recently served as the President of the American Folklore Society (2020-2022) and holds the Murchison Professorship of the Humanities at Trinity University. Her research and creative writing have earned her an international reputation. Her most recent publications include the co-edited anthologies: Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa: Pedagogies and Practices for our Classrooms and Communities and meXicana Fashions: Politics\, Self-Adornment\, and Identity Construction; the novel\, Cabañuelas\, and a poetry collection: Meditacion Fronteriza: Poems of Love\, Life\, and Labor. She has two forthcoming publications\, Fiestas in Laredo: Matachines\, Quinceañeras\, and George Washington’s Birthday Celebration &; The Folklorico Dance Tradition in US Latinx Communities. She is at work on a collection of poems tentatively titled Remedios. \nPanelists: \nCloud Delfina Cardona is a poet and visual artist from San Anto\, Tejas. Cardona is the author of What Remains\, winner of the 2020 Host Publications Chapbook Prize. She is the co-founder of Infrarrealista Review\, a literary nonprofit dedicated to publishing Texan writers. Cardona’s poems can be found in Prairie Schooner\, Los Angeles Review\, The Boiler\, Tinderbox\, and more. \nEddie Vega (the Taco-Poet of Texas) is a poet\, storyteller\, educator\, and Macondista. He is the author of Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press\, 2019) and recipient of the literary arts grant from the Luminaria Artist Foundation (2021). Last summer\, he was named best local poet by the San Antonio Current and won two major head-to-head haiku contests. Most recently\, he’s published a collection of poems written by South Texans entitled\, Asina is How We Talk. Vega hosts The Mouth Dakota Poetry Project\, a biweekly open mic in San Antonio\, TX. \nKatie Gutierrez is the author of the national bestselling\, Edgar Award-nominated debut novel MORE THAN YOU’LL EVER KNOW\, which was also a Good Morning America Book Club selection. She is a National Magazine Award finalist whose essays and features have appeared in TIME\, Texas Highways\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and more\, and acknowledged in Best American Magazine Writing and Best American Essays. She has an MFA from Texas State University and lives in San Antonio\, Texas\, with her husband and their two kids.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/pathways-to-publication-for-latinx-writers/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Illness as Story: Healing through Writing and Community with Suzanne Ohlmann
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Oct 7\, 14\, 21\, 28 & Nov 4\, 11\, 10am-12pm CST\, Hybrid (online via Zoom and in-person)\nInstructor: Suzanne Ohlmann\nNonmember: $155; Member: $135; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nDo you carry the story of illness in your body?  \nNo matter the diagnosis or disease\, illness leaves a mark on the mind\, body\, and soul. Even caregivers or clinicians carry the story of how they’ve helped others navigate disease. Sometimes the first step toward health and healing can be sitting with the truth of how illness affects you.   \nIn this six-week course\, participants will study the therapeutic storytelling model of the Six-Part Story (6PSM)\, explore writing about their experiences with disease from different points of view\, and practice combining facts and fiction to create a new version of their healing journey.   \nBy creating a safe space for reflection\, this workshop hopes to provide a path toward repair\, healing\, and empowerment. All students will write and polish a final essay for potential publishing. On the last day of class\, students will share their stories with each other.  \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill level\, 18+.  \nStudents will leave this course with: \n\nA polished essay in both first and third person\nAn understanding of how the Six-Part Story Method (6PSM) can be used to write about illness\nGreater confidence in sharing personal stories\n\n\nSuzanne Ohlmann is a writer\, nurse\, and musician. Her first book\, Shadow Migration: Mapping A Life (University of Nebraska Press)\, was released in March 2022. She teaches storytelling as a means to navigate illness and the human condition. Her essays have been published by Texas Monthly\, Intima: The Journal of Narrative Medicine\, and Longreads. She lives in San Antonio with her husband\, son\, and a chorus of adopted pets. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/illness-as-story-healing-through-writing/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Voices of San Anto with Eddie Vega
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URL:https://geminiink.org/events/voices-of-san-anto-3/
LOCATION:San Antonio Public Library\, 600 Soledad\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Katie Gutierrez
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 18th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Katie Gutierrez’s novel\, More Than You’ll Ever Know\, moderated by May Cobb.\nKatie Gutierrez is the author of the national bestselling\, Edgar Award-nominated debut novel More Than You’ll Ever Know\, which was also a Good Morning America Book Club selection. She is a National Magazine Award finalist whose essays and features have appeared in TIME\, Texas Highways\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and more\, and acknowledged in Best American Magazine Writing and Best American Essays. She has an MFA from Texas State University and lives with her husband and two kids in San Antonio\, Texas. \nRSVP\nAbout More Than You’ll Ever Know: \n“Masterful . . . Elegance\, darkness\, even fear are deftly intertwined . . . A wonderful read.” — LUIS ALBERTO URREA\, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels \nRecommended by New York Times Book Review • Los Angeles Times• Washington Post• Parade • Good Housekeeping • NBC News • Today.com • Goodreads • Audible • The Millions • Popsugar • Tribeza • CrimeReads • Library Reads • She Reads • and more! \nThe dance becomes an affair\, which becomes a marriage\, which becomes a murder… \nIn 1985\, Lore Rivera marries Andres Russo in Mexico City\, even though she is already married to Fabian Rivera in Laredo\, Texas\, and they share twin sons. Through her career as an international banker\, Lore splits her time between two countries and two families—until the truth is revealed and one husband is arrested for murdering the other. \nIn 2017\, while trawling the internet for the latest\, most sensational news reports\, struggling true-crime writer Cassie Bowman encounters an article detailing that tragic final act. Cassie is immediately enticed by what is not explored: Why would a woman—a mother—risk everything for a secret double marriage? Cassie sees an opportunity—she’ll track Lore down and capture the full picture\, the choices\, the deceptions that led to disaster. But the more time she spends with Lore\, the more Cassie questions the facts surrounding the murder itself. Soon\, her determination to uncover the truth could threaten to derail Lore’s now quiet life—and expose the many secrets both women are hiding. \nTold through alternating timelines\, More Than You’ll Ever Know is both a gripping mystery and a wrenching family drama. Presenting a window into the hearts of two very different women\, it explores the many conflicting demands of marriage and motherhood\, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing someone—especially those we love.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-with-katie-gutierrez/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Place of Poetry: An Evening on Eco-Writing with Jenny Browne and Camille T. Dungy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE reading at Trinity University!\nOctober 19\, 2023\, 7-8:30pm\nTrinity University\, Margarite B. Parker Chapel\, Free and Open to the Public\nDirections to the Margarite B. Parker Chapel at Trinity \nJoin us on Thursday\, October 19th\, for an evening with Gemini Ink 2023 Recipient of the Award for Literary Excellence Jenny Browne\, and award-winning poet\, essayist\, and editor Camille T. Dungy. These two contemporary poets at the top of their craft will discuss how their place-based writing addresses the increasingly complicated relationships humans have to the environment\, whether manmade or wild.  \nThis discussion will examine the role of the literary arts in addressing an ever-changing environment. How do we use writing to bring attention to our planet’s ecological crisis while exploring the intricate connection between humans and nature? How do we deepen our relationship to the earth and celebrate the wonder of the natural world? Don’t miss an opportunity to spend time with two thought-provoking literary voices!  \nThe evening will include an audience Q&A and a book signing and reception following the author talk. The event takes place in the Margarite B. Parker Chapel at Trinity University. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Trinity University’s Humanities Collective. \n\nCamille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP\, 2017)\, winner of the Colorado Book Award. She is also the author of the essay collections Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster\, 2023) and Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race\, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing\, Rhyme\, Resound\, Syncopate\, Alliterate\, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow\, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018)\, an American Book Award\, two NAACP Image Award nominations\, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy’s poems have been published in Best American Poetry\, The 100 Best African American Poems\, the Pushcart Anthology\, Best American Travel Writing\, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. \nJenny Browne is the author of four collections: Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems (2019)\, Dear Stranger (2014)\, The Second Reason (2007)\, and At Once (2003). She earned her MFA from the James Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin. She served concurrent terms as City of San Antonio Poet Laureate (2016-18) and Poet Laureate of the State of Texas (2018) and in 2020 was Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre\, Queens University\, in Belfast\, Northern Ireland. Other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America. In the introduction to Browne’s New and Selected Poems\, Naomi Shihab Nye praised Browne’s vivid depictions of place and the strangeness of both life and language\, “Her exuberant poems\, rich with definite cadences\, deep curiosities\, and multi-layered textures\, voices\, and personalities\, feel like wake-up calls. As if they say\, Here is this life I find myself in\, which fascinates and confounds me. Have we paid enough attention lately?” Browne teaches at Trinity University in San Antonio.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-place-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Trinity University\, 1 Trinity Pl\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78212
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Evoking Place Through Sensory Writing: An Open Genre Workshop with Award-winning Eco-Writer Camille T. Dungy
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 20\, 10am-1pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Camille T. Dungy\nNonmember: $135; Member: $115; Student: $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \nPlace can be a tool for connection\, history\, freedom\, discovery\, and even tension. But how do we capture a setting with nuance so that a reader gains understanding and clarity of the world the story/poem lives in? \nIn this three-hour generative workshop\, participants will examine passages that use strong sensory details to bring the texture\, mood\, geographic and/or aesthetic quirks of a place to life. We will then practice various approaches for generating descriptive language and apply it to our own work.  \nDon’t miss this chance to spend a morning with one of the most intriguing literary voices of our time\, who is a ground-breaking author in the world of eco-writing! Walk away with several starts to new pieces of work evoking a sense of place in thought-provoking\, nuanced ways. \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill level\, 18+. Students are encouraged to bring their favorite writing materials. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nAn understanding of how setting can be used in creative writing\nApproaches to generating different kinds of sensory language\nThe ability to use sensory details to evoke place\nBeginnings of several new pieces of work\n\n\nCamille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP\, 2017)\, winner of the Colorado Book Award. She is also the author of the essay collections Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster\, 2023) and Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race\, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing\, Rhyme\, Resound\, Syncopate\, Alliterate\, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow\, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018)\, an American Book Award\, two NAACP Image Award nominations\, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy’s poems have been published in Best American Poetry\, The 100 Best African American Poems\, the Pushcart Anthology\, Best American Travel Writing\, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/evoking-place-with-camille-dungy/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Unban the Book with Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 24th\, 6:30-8pm\nHYBRID: in-person at Gemini Ink or online via Zoom\nFree and open to the public \nRegister to Join us for Unban the Book \nJoin Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson\, San Antonio Poet Laureate Emeritus\, as we recognize Banned Books Week (October 1 – 7\, 2023) by gathering and writing open letters to local and state lawmakers about the political attack on books and its impact on our community.  \nWe will come together in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas without fear of book bans. When lawmakers ban books\, such as Art Spiegelman’s Maus\, which tells a Holocaust survivor story\, or Toni Morrison’s Beloved\, which is about a former slave who survived abuse\, we lose access to pivotal stories that speak to our history\, bring to life the realities of marginalized communities\, and challenge us to think critically.  \nParticipants will be provided stationary\, stamped envelopes\, and writing guidance. We will then seal our letters and send them off. Light refreshments will be served. In-person seating is limited\, please register here:  \nRegister to Join us for Unban the Book \n\nAndrea Sanderson\, San Antonio\, TX. Poet Laureate 2020-2023\, performs as “Vocab” in her hometown of San Antonio\, Texas. “Watching her perform\, the word “hero” comes to mind. And not “hero” for the sake of just skill\, but for her work in her community: Sanderson teaches poetry workshops\, mentors\, builds up and encourages artists to pursue their art\, and gives them platforms to showcase their talent. \nSanderson’s interest in other people’s art and artistic development became a passion of hers\, and she started curating her own shows and creating platforms for other artists to hone their craft by hosting open mics.” (From The San Antonio Current\, Jan. 16\, 2018.) \nHer poetry is published in\, The Texas Observer\, January 2016 Issue\, Pariah Anthology SFA Press\, March 2016\, and Sycorax’s Daughters\, Cedar Grove Publishing\, January 2017\, Soundbite Vol. 3\, Anti-Languorous Project\, Spring 2019. 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. \nShe received awards\, Performer of the Year\, Influencer of the Year\, from Project Forward\, and Dream Voice\, from the Dream Week Commission. Sanderson is the winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award\, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as: Artist Foundation of San Antonio).In May of 2020 she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/unban-the-book-with-vocab/
LOCATION:TX
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SUMMARY:A Walk on the Dark Side: Gothic Erasure with Kristine Esser Slentz
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, Oct 30 & Nov 6\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Kristine Esser Slentz\nNonmember: $135; Member: $115; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nWant to take a walk on the dark side? Let Gothic classics and erasure take you there!  From The Phantom of the Opera\, to The Picture of Dorian Gray\, to Frankenstein\, Gothic fiction has captured our deepest fears and twisted our imaginations with the strange and unusual. \nIn this two-session class\, we will explore erasure techniques and apply them to popular Gothic tales to create our own stories or poems. We will delve into erasure masterpieces from Chase Berggrun\, Jennifer Tamayo\, Francisco Levato\, and Nicole Sealey to better understand this increasingly popular technique. We will then apply what we learned to the works of Mary Shelley\, Oscar Wilde\, Gaston Leroux\, or any other Gothic texts students would like to work with. This workshop will include close reading\, a generative component\, and a feedback session.  \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill level\, 18+.  \nYou will leave this workshop with: \n\nA deeper understanding of erasure\nA new perspective on Gothic writing\nYour own Gothic story or poem\n\n\nKRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ is the author of woman\, depose (FlowerSong Press\, 2021) and the forthcoming artist book\, The Archives (Kintsugi Books). She is originally from northwest Indiana and the Chicagoland area. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) from City College of New York (CCNY) where she is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor. Kristine is a Pushcart Prize nominee\, finalist in the Glass Poetry Chapbook and F(r)iction’s Flash Fiction Contests\, recipient of a CCNY English Department Teacher-Writer Award\, and former Rifkind Fellow and Poets Afloat resident. Currently\, she is the co-founder and organizer/host of the monthly artist series\, Adverse Abstraction\, in NYC’s East Village.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/a-walk-on-the-dark-side-gothic-erasure/
LOCATION:TX
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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