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SUMMARY:Tapping Into Your Senses: A Memoir Workshop with Denise Tolan
DESCRIPTION:Breathe life into your memoir \n  \nTue\, Feb 3\, 10\, 17 & 24\n6:30-8:30pm CT\, Hybrid (in-person at Gemini Ink or online via Zoom)\nNonmember: $200; Member: $170; Student/Educ/Mil: $140\n*EARN CPEs \nClass Full\nAre you in the throes of writing your memoir but unsure how to make readers truly feel your story?  Learn to transform your personal experiences into an immersive\, resonant journey by tapping into your senses! \nThis four-week hybrid course will help you unlock the power of sight\, sound\, touch\, taste\, and smell to bring your memoir to life. Through engaging activities and guided exercises\, you’ll explore the sensory details of key moments in your story and use them to develop your memoir more fully. We’ll build from these moments to create stronger characters\, richer plotlines\, and breakthroughs in your writing. Students are encouraged to bring a memoir-in-progress\, if they have one.  We will also generate work in class. \nThis workshop is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following:\n\nStrategies for using sensory elements to recall memories\nGuidance on how to incorporate sensory elements into your work\, including how to negotiate difficult moments in your memoir with confidence and control\nA polished section of your memoir to build on\n\n\nDenise Tolan‘s work has appeared in The Best Small Fictions\, The Penn Review\, Cherry Tree\, and Lunch Ticket. Denise was a finalist for Best of the Net and the International Literary Awards: Penelope Niven Prize in Nonfiction. Her memoir\, Italian Blood\, was a finalist for the 2024 Eric Hoffer book award and the Reader’s Choice Awards. Denise has taught Creative Writing classes at the college level for over 20 years and given workshops at conferences in Texas\, Arizona\, Ohio\, and Oklahoma.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tapping-into-your-senses/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Katie Gutierrez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for In conversation with Katie Gutierrez at the Maverick Carter House on Friday\, February 6 at 7pm presented by UT San Antonio Creative Writing Program in partnership with Gemini Ink. \nKatie Gutierrez is the bestselling author of the mystery novel More Than You’ll Ever Know\, a Good Morning America Book Club pick and Edgar Award finalist. Her essays and features have appeared in TIME\, Texas Highways\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and more. She has an MFA from Texas State University and lives in San Antonio\, Texas. Gutierrez will read from her work and share her approach to writing in conversation with Dr. Kimberly Garza. An audience Q&A and book signing will follow. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. \nLocation: The Maverick Carter House\, 119 Taylor St.\, San Antonio 78205
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/in-conversation-with-katie-gutierrez/
LOCATION:Maverick Carter House\, 119 Taylor St\, San Antonio\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="UTSA Arts":MAILTO:Breanna.Castillo@utsa.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260216T183000
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SUMMARY:Creating an Immersive Setting and Atmosphere with Andrew Porter
DESCRIPTION:Literary Masters Lecture Series \nWrite a World for Readers to Explore\n  \nMonday(s)\, February 16 & 23\, 2026\, 6:30-8pm CT\, online via Zoom.\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Educ/Mil: $63\n*EARN CPEs; TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n \n \n  \n Join us for the first Literary Masters Lecture of the year and learn to craft an immersive setting and atmosphere readers can truly sink into! Each session features an engaging craft talk\, actionable writing strategies\, and a live Q&A with the author. \nIn this two-part intensive lecture\, award-winning fiction author Andrew Porter will share practical techniques for building immersive settings and atmospheres\, explore their vital role in fiction and nonfiction\, and offer craft tools participants can practice on their own after the lecture. \nThis lecture is open to writers of all genres and skill levels 18+. \nParticipants will leave this lecture series with:\n\nAn understanding of the important role setting and atmosphere play in a piece of writing\nTechniques for creating an immersive setting and atmosphere in any genre\nAdditional activities to complete at home following the lecture\n\n\nAndrew Porter is the author of four books\, including the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf) and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage) and the novels In Between Days (Knopf) and The Imagined Life (Knopf\, 2025). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has received a Pushcart Prize\, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories\, One Story\, Ploughshares\, American Short Fiction\, The Southern Review\, and on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Currently\, he teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/creating-an-immersive-setting/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-02-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:Poets & Coffee
DESCRIPTION:A morning of poems and conversation\nSaturday\, February 21 · 10am–12pm · FREE * OPEN TO EVERYONE! \nWe’ll have the coffee ready—just bring a friend and settle in among fellow poetry lovers. \nExplore what’s happening now in the world of contemporary verse. We’ll share a few favorite poems and spotlight contemporary poets who are making waves both on the page and on the stage. This is your chance to join the conversation! Share the poems that have moved you and tell us why poetry matters in your life. \nWhat to Expect\n• Fresh coffee and a relaxed\, come-as-you-are atmosphere• A guided\, informal conversation led by Gemini Ink Executive Director Alexandra van de Kamp• Readings of contemporary poems• Space to listen\, reflect\, and share (only if you want to)• New poems to take home and simple prompts to spark your own writing• A room full of people who love poetry—or are just getting curious\n• No lectures. No pressure. Just good poems\, good conversation\, and good company. \nYou’ll leave with a sense of community. Whether you’re a seasoned poet or simply curious\, everyone is welcome at our poetic gathering. \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-2/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Open Writers' 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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-02-23/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260228T120000
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 12-1:30pm 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-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-02-28/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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