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SUMMARY:No More Excuses: Submission Bootcamp with Lyzette Wanzer
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, June 4\, 11\, 18\, 25  & July 2\, 9\, 2024 from 6:30-8:30pm cst via Zoom\nInstructor: Lyzette Wanzer\nNonmember: $155; Member: $135; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full\nAre you on the verge of submitting your writing for publication\, but are you too nervous or afraid to follow through? Have you submitted your work\, just for it to end up in the rejection pile? Or does submitting your work keep falling to the bottom of your to-do list? \nIn this workshop\, you’ll learn how to plan a submission strategy\, research publishing markets\, and identify the publications most aligned with your work. We will also review proper submission etiquette and protocols plus suggestions for avoiding pitfalls that mark you as an amateur before editors even read your submission. \nStudents will be strongly encouraged to actively submit short stories\, articles\, poems\, essays\, novel excerpts\, and/or creative nonfiction pieces for publication while enrolled in the workshop. \nThis course is for writers of all levels—from those who are ready to learn about the submission process to those who are in the submission trenches. \nStudents will leave this class with:  \n\nAn understanding of how the submission and publication process works\nBest practices for organizing and tracking submissions\nStrategies for getting your work accepted\n\nRead Lyzette’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\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 of 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/submission-bootcamp/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Delving into Latin America: Inspiration from International Poets with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, June 5\, 12\, 19 & 26\, 2024\, from 6:30-8:30pm cst via Zoom\nInstructor: Veronica Golos\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full \nIn a time of worldwide strife and disconnection\, poetry reacquaints us with humanity in a way that transcends borders\, time zones\, and languages. Join master poetry teacher Veronica Golos on an international poetry tour. First stop: Latin America! \nIn this four-week generative poetry workshop we will explore four international poets: Conceiҫão Evaristo (Brazil)\, Coral Bracho (Mexico)\, Pablo Neruda (Chile) and Juan Gelman (Argentina). Each week we will read deeply\, explore each poet’s craft tools\, and apply these techniques to our own work. A packet with poems will be sent to participants\, along with suggestions for developing your own work. \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nStudy and analyze the work of 4 contemporary poets\nWrite poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme\nReceive on-the-spot feedback for written work \n\n\nVeronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL\, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize in 2019; Rootwork\, winner of the 2016 Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry; Vocabulary of Silence\, a 2011 New Mexico Book Award winner that was translated into Arabic\, Spanish and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep\, a Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize winner. She teaches poetry for Hugo House\, Gemini Ink\, and SOMOS. She reviews poetry books for Tupelo Press and works as a manuscript editor. She lives in Taos\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, David Pérez.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/delving-into-latin-america/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) 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. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-06-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Alex Temblador
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 19th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Alex Temblador\, moderated Daniel Peña\nRSVP\nAbout Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers \nA practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own.\n\nDo you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than your own? It’s not a subject that’s generally taught in creative writing programs\, and there are so few craft books and online resources on the subject. Even if you can take a seminar\, class\, or workshop\, there’s nothing like having an easy-to-understand book on hand to provide guidance and insight every time you craft characters with historically marginalized identities.\n\n\nIn Writing an Identity Not Your Own\, award-winning author Alex Temblador discusses one of the most contentious topics in creative writing: crafting a character whose identity is historically marginalized. What is “identity\,” and how do unconscious biases and bias blocks impact and influence what we write? What is intersectionality? You’ll learn about identity terms\, stereotypes\, and tropes\, and receive genre-specific advice related to various identities to consider when writing different races and ethnicities\, sexual and romantic orientations\, gender identities\, disabilities\, nationalities\, and more. Through writing strategies\, exercises\, and literary excerpts\, writers will gain a clearer understanding on how misrepresentations and harmful portrayals can appear in storylines\, dialogue\, and characterization. Alex will guide writers from the brainstorming phase through the editing process so they can gain a full understanding of the complexities of writing other identities and why it’s important to get them right.\n\n\n\n\nAlex Temblador is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers\, Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Her work has appeared in PALABRITAS\, D Magazine\, and Colorado Review\, among others. Alex is the creator and moderator of LitTalk at Whose Books and the Executive Director of Write Here DFW\, the Dallas-Fort Worth literary calendar. In addition to teaching creative writing classes\, she is an award-winning travel\, arts\, and culture journalist whose work has appeared in Outside\, National Geographic\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Texas Monthly\, among others.\n\n\n\nDaniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Associate Professor at the University of North Texas where he teaches in the PhD Program in Creative Writing.  Formerly\, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City where he worked as a 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.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-with-alex-temblador/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:The Poet Speaks with Amanda Eke
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 22\, 2024 10am-1pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Amanda Eke\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \n  \nRhythm\, dynamic words\, dramatic flow–these are some of the core elements of spoken word poems. But what if you infuse this type of poetry with aspects of storytelling and other oral traditions? This cross-genre approach to writing and performance can open us up to a whole new art form. \nThe goal of this one-day workshop is to engage in a unique combination of personal story and poetry. We will start by learning about Nigerian and Igbo oral storytelling traditions of rhyme and verse. Then we’ll fuse this storytelling with the contemporary art of spoken word to create our own poems. Theater and choral reading techniques will also be covered to help students prepare poems for stage performance. \nThis course is open to writers of all skill levels\, 18+. \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nNew strategies for incorporating storytelling and other oral traditions into crafting spoken word pieces\nExperimentation with beats and rhymes\n1 drafted spoken word poem\n\nRead Amanda’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n\nAmanda Eke is an award-winning Nigerian American Artist\, Poet\, Filmmaker\, Educator and Scholar. A Fulbright and UN Award winner and author\, she uses both her love for writing and music to address socio-political issues\, and contemporary culture prevalent in society today. Amanda has lived and worked with young adults in Malta\, Nepal\, United States and Nigeria.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-poet-speaks-with-amanda-eke/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online 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.\n \n  \n\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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2024-06-24/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Letters to James Baldwin: A Pride Month Reading & Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, June 27th\, to wrap up Pride Month 2024 with a timely and intimate literary discussion around the life and work of James Baldwin.  \nWe will celebrate the genius of Baldwin\, a black\, queer writer and civil rights activist\, and create a space for other writers to draw inspiration from and interact with his work.  This event will feature authors Georgie Lee\, Aminah Decé\, and Aaron Deutsch\, who will each share a piece of work written in response to Baldwin’s concepts and ideas. Come join the community conversation. Following the program\, we will have a community open mic. Light refreshments will be served. \nPlease visit our social media pages during the month of June. We’re sharing writing prompts and quotes from James Baldwin that mayinspire you to write something new for the open mic! \n \nInstagram: @sa_geminiink\nFacebook: @GeminiInk\nTwitter: @GeminiInk   \n\nAminah Decé is a Teaching Artist from Mississippi. She was trained at the World Combat Academy\, Institute of Martial Science\, and maintains degrees in The Humanities\, Fine Arts & Art History/Criticism from UTSA. She began her artistic journey as a slam poet in Killeen\, Texas. Aminah discredits concepts of race and supremacy through her art and empowers the public to do the same through art education. \n  \nAaron Deutsch received his MFA in poetry with distinction from Texas State University\, intending to acquire a lexicon to answer the wild\, mystical questions the world around him seemed to be asking. That journey led him to become a senior program manager with the United States Department of Defense\, where he works to build regional security across South America and the Middle East alongside international partners. To establish and maintain effective communication\, he uses poetics and linguistics to build shared goals across cultures. He loves teaching creative writing classes\, working on that ever-elusive first book\, and spoiling his Boston Terrier\, Hamlet.  \nGeorgie Lee (he/they) is an award-winning and internationally published poet from South Texas. By day\, Georgie is the healthcare form designer for all Baptist Health System hospitals in the San Antonio area. By night\, Georgie is heavily involved in the local performing arts scene. From acting in community theater productions to playing the clarinet in symphonic bands\, Georgie hopes to inspire others to explore the power of recovery through creative activity. Their work is centered around self-love\, grief\, overcoming addiction\, and queerness as a celebration.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/letters-to-james-baldwin/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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