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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the LitMinds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child\, Her American Doctors\, and the Collision of Two Cultures\, by Anne Fadiman.\nRegister\n\n\nWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction \nWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest \nA Salon Book Award Winner \nLia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants\, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding\, over-medication\, and culture clash: “What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance.” The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions\, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account\, “There are no villains in Fadiman’s tale\, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them\, in their humility and their frailty—and their nobility. \n\n\n\n \nAnne Fadiman was born in New York City in 1953. She graduated in 1975 from Harvard College\, where she began her writing career as the undergraduate columnist at Harvard Magazine. For many years\, she was a writer and columnist for Life\, and later an Editor-at-Large at Civilization. She has won National Magazine Awards for both Reporting (1987) and Essays (2003)\, as well as a National Book Critics Circle Award for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader\, a collection of first-person essays on books and reading\, was published by Farrar\, Straus and Giroux in 1998. Fadiman was the editor of the intellectual and cultural quarterly The American Scholar from 1997 to 2004. She now holds the Francis chair in nonfiction writing at Yale. Fadiman lives in western Massachusetts with her husband\, the writer George Howe Colt\, and their two children. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-a-book-club-3/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Veterans' Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veterans’ 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2025-01-15/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250115T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Kimberly Garza
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, Jan 15th\, 2025 online for a conversation with Kimberly Garza\, author of The Last Karankawas. Moderated by Elizabeth Gonzalez James.\n\n\n\n(Zoom Readings Monthly @ 7pm CST) \nRSVP for the Google Meet link\n“Beautiful\, complex\, and subversive\, The Last Karankawas is an important book about Texas from a powerful new voice in American fiction. I loved it. These characters and their stories will stay with me.”\n— Elizabeth Wetmore\, New York Times–bestselling author of Valentine \n“Garza debuts with an accomplished account of the ties between members of a Filipino and Mexican community… This is a worthy love letter to Galveston.”\n— Publishers Weekly \n“Devastating in its own clarity and nuance. The Last Karankawas has the power to change the way we see where we’ve been and what we may have left behind. A stunning debut from a talented writer.”\n— Oscar Cásares\, author of Where We Come From \nWelcome to Galveston\, Texas\, a popular tourist destination and major shipping port with a population of 50\,241. While millions visit each year\, few venture beyond the boulevards to Fish Village\, home to generations of island residents. Carly Castillo has only known Fish Village\, her grandmother claiming their family descended from the Karankawas\, an indigenous Texas people. As she grows older\, she dreams of a life undefined by her family’s history. Her boyfriend\, Jess\, a former all-star shortstop turned seaman\, cherishes the salty\, familiar air of Galveston and has turned down opportunities to leave. When news of Hurricane Ike spreads\, residents face a tough choice: stay and protect their homes or flee inland. The Last Karankawas weaves together the lives of these characters\, creating a powerful portrait of survival\, familial ties\, and the histories we create\, reminding us that true bonds are forged\, not by blood\, but by fire. \n\nKimberly Garza (she/her) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel\, Puerto del Sol\, Creative Nonfiction\, TriQuarterly\, and elsewhere. She holds degrees in English\, Spanish\, and creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas\, where she earned a PhD in 2019. A native Texan—born in Galveston\, raised in Uvalde—she is the daughter of a Filipina immigrant mother and a Mexican-American father from the Rio Grande Valley. She lives in San Antonio\, where she is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The Last Karankawas is her first novel. \n\nElizabeth Gonzalez James is a screenwriter and bestselling author of the novels\, Mona at Sea and The Bullet Swallower\, as well as the chapbook\, Five Conversations About Peter Sellers. She has taught fiction writing at Grub Street\, Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop\, Story Studio\, and elsewhere. Originally from South Texas\, Elizabeth now lives with her family in Massachusetts.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-kimberly-garza/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:Poets & Coffee with Alexandra van de Kamp
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink’s Executive Artistic Director\, Alexandra van de Kamp\, for an informal craft conversation about what’s happening right now in the world of poetry. \nWe’ll make the coffee. You bring a friend and enjoy a seat in the company of your peers.  \nAlexandra will share some of the poems she’s been reading and discuss a selection of contemporary poets she believes are lighting up the page and stage. Then\, we’d love to hear from you about the poems you’ve been reading and why poetry matters. \nYou’ll benefit from a welcoming poetic community and leave with a bundle of new poems to explore and generative prompts to fuel future writing.  \n\n​​Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink\, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center. Her third book of poems\, Ricochet Script\, was published by Next Page Press in 2022. ​​Her previous full-length collections include: Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010). She has also published several chapbooks\, including A Liquid Bird Inside the Night (Red Glass Books 2015) and Dear Jean Seberg (2011)\, which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide\, such as The Cincinnati Review\, Connecticut Review\, The Texas Observer\, and Denver Quarterly.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poets-coffee-with-alexandra-van-de-kamp/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink
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SUMMARY:Voices of San Anto Workshop with Marisela Barrera
DESCRIPTION:Please email Sarah.DeLaRosa@sanantonio.gov to request being added to the waitlist.\n\n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/voices-of-san-anto-2/
LOCATION:San Antonio Public Library\, 600 Soledad\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:First Page Fiction Bootcamp with Chaitali Sen
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, January 25\, 2025\, 10am-4pm CST (with 30-minute lunch)\, in person at Gemini Ink \nNonmember $140        Member    $120                 Student $80 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \n\n  \n\nA formidable first page of fiction grabs the reader\, sets the tone for what’s to come\, and captures the essence of the entire work. But how do we create an opening that keeps the reader turning the page? \nIn this one-day workshop\, we will study and discuss various examples of compelling first pages to see what works; we will review craft elements such as character\, setting\, point-of-view\, and narrative voice; and we will write and examine our own first pages in a safe\, supportive environment.  \nThis course is open to fiction writers of all skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nAn understanding of what makes for a strong first page\nTechniques for writing strong openings\nA strong first page of fiction\n\n\nChaitali Sen is the author of the novel The Pathless Sky (Europa Editions 2015) and the story collection A New Race of Men from Heaven (Sarabande Books 2023)\, chosen by Danielle Evans as the winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories and essays have been published by American Short Fiction\, Boulevard\, Catapult\, Colorado Review\, Ecotone\, Electric Literature\, LitHub\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, New England Review\, Shenandoah\, and many other publications. Born in India and raised in New York and Pennsylvania\, she currently lives in Austin\, Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/fiction-bootcamp/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 11:30am-1pm cst via Zoom \nFor ages 13-19 years old \nAre you a teen who enjoys writing in their free time? Or are you someone who’s never had the chance to write on their own? If so\, this Online Teen Writing Circle is for you!  \nIn this once-a-month writing circle\, teens will enjoy writing in a judgment free zone. We’ll break the ice with one another and perform various writing exercises. You are encouraged to share your work with your peers and get constructive feedback\, but it is not required. Our only goal is to keep you writing! \nThis course is open to teen writers of any skill level. \nParticipants will leave the writing circle with:  \n\nNew\, unique written work\nListening and sharing experience\nConstructive feedback to help improve their writing\n\nWant to learn more about our Teen Writing Circle? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions!\n \n\nDaniel Ramirez has been an educator for over 15 years. After studying History in grad school\, he tromped around the outdoors doing conservation with teenagers. Spending time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of incorporating creativity with learning. Encouraging youth to tap into their creative abilities convinced him to discover his own. Since then\, in addition to his original love of storytelling\, he’s found a penchant for calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he explores the crystalline waters of Central Texas in his free time. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20250127T183000
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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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2025-01-27/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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