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SUMMARY:Launch Your Substack with Jennifer Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 2\, 10am-1pm CT via Zoom\nNonmember: $75; Member: $65; Student: $53\n \n \n  \nBlogs are out\, substacks are in! Learn to build your own and get your writing to your audience ASAP. \nIn this one day workshop you will learn how to use Substack\, a popular online writing platform\, to find your audience and amplify your voice. If you are looking to develop a marketing strategy for your long-term writing goals\, this class is for you. Participants will reflect on where they are as writers\, where they want to go\, and how they want to use a Substack to get there. We will examine other online platforms but focus on how to use Substack and its tools to build an audience\, maximize visibility\, and cultivate your own unique flavor. This course is designed for practicing writers 18+\, who want to connect with new readers. \nStudents will leave this course with the following:\n\nA deep dive into Substack\nShort-term and long-term writing goals\nAn assessment of your audience\nIncreased confidence in your authentic voice\n\n\nJennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen is a writer currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a creative nonfiction writer who writes about assimilation\, belonging\, and power. Her work has been supported by Tin House\, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops\, Macondo\, Vermont Studio Center\, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices\, where she received the Emerge Editorial Fellowship and edited Emerge\, the retreat’s anthology. \nHer work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, a “notable” selection in The Best American Essays 2024\, and has appeared in Longreads\, The Offing\, Foglifter\, the Ponder Review\, and New Rivers Press as the winner of the American Fiction Award. She writes humorist pieces in “Thursday Letters with Jen” via Substack. Along with writing\, Nguyen is currently the director of postsecondary success at the Stupski Foundation\, a private philanthropic foundation that will spend down its assets and sunset by 2029. 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/launch-your-substack/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Mind Over Mic: A Gemini Ink Storytelling Show & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Open mic sign-up starts at 6 PM.\nThu\, May 7\, 2026\, 6:30-8pm\, in-person at Gemini Ink\n1111 Navarro St. San Antonio\, Texas 78205\nFree & Open to the Public \nAbout the Event\nJoin Gemini Ink and a collection of local storytellers as we share gripping stories of solitary struggles\, tiny triumphs\, and soothing self-care in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month 2026.   \nOur featured truth-tellers will include Jen Yáñez-Alaniz\, Jonathan Fletcher\, Joyous Windrider Jiménez\, and Daniel Ramirez. These writers will deliver powerful personal stories in support of Mental Health Awareness Month’s mission to draw attention to the importance of mental health and wellbeing for all. \nFollowing the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, short stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 5-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm. Light refreshments will be served. \nWe will have a list of community mental health resources available.  \n\nFeatured Readers\nJonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. His work has been featured in numerous literary journals and magazines\, and he has won or placed in various literary contests.  A Pushcart Prize\, Best of the Net\, and Best Microfiction nominee\, he won Northwestern University Press’s Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize contest in 2023\, for which he will have his debut chapbook\, This is My Body\, published in 2025.  Currently\, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow and lives in San Antonio\, Texas. \nDaniel Ramirez is a longtime educator and writer from San Antonio. He has published nature writing essays in Foliate Oak\, Twisted Vine\, and you are here journals and nature-based journalism with StateImpact Texas (KUT Austin) and Texas Public Radio. He also writes stories\, puppet shows\, and poetry; as a teaching artist\, he’s taught in multiple genres. He believes that the quest to develop one’s inner creativity parallels the quest to encounter one’s deeper\, truer self. \nJen Yáñez-Alaniz is a Chicana Cúelcahén Ndé scholar\, poet\, and community organizer whose work centers cultural preservation\, land-based ceremony\, and decolonial epistemologies. Her poetry can be found in There is So Much I Want to Tell You (Mouthfeel Press) and Somos Xicanas (Riot of Roses Publishing House)\, as well as in various anthologies and journals. She is the author of Surrogate Eater (Alabrava Press). Her current manuscript\, Pain Theory: Sweetness Ferments into a Beast\, reflects poetically and critically on healing\, endurance\, and living beyond multiple autoimmune conditions. \nJoyous Windrider Jiménez is an educator\, artist\, and trauma-informed somatic coach. A storyteller at heart\, she blends performance and visual elements into stories that articulate her own journey of self-growth and emotional literacy.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/mind-over-mic-a-gemini-ink-storytelling-show-open-mic/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Voices of San Anto Storytelling Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Participants gather during a Voices of San Anto bilingual storytelling workshop led by Marisela Barrera in 2025. \nJoin Gemini Ink and the San Antonio Public Library for an afternoon of live bilingual storytelling featuring local San Antonio storytellers. \nOver the past several weeks\, community members from across San Antonio have worked with writer and performer Daniel Ramirez to craft original stories rooted in family history\, neighborhood memory\, music\, identity\, immigration\, friendship\, and everyday life in San Antonio. This final celebration brings those stories to the stage in English and Spanish. \nVoices of San Anto is a free bilingual storytelling workshop series presented in partnership with the San Antonio Public Library and designed to help local residents shape and share their personal stories in a welcoming community setting. \nEvent Details\nFree and open to the public.\nSaturday\, May 9\, 2026\n2–4pm \nSchaefer Library\n6322 US Hwy 87 E\nSan Antonio\, TX 78222 \nPresented by Gemini Ink and the San Antonio Public Library. \n\nAbout Voices of San Anto\nSince 2023\, Gemini Ink has partnered with the San Antonio Public Library to offer free bilingual storytelling workshops led by local writers and performers including Daniel Ramirez\, Marisela Barrera\, Eddie Vega\, and Chibbi Orduna. \nParticipants develop original 5–7 minute stories and share them during a live public celebration with family\, friends\, and the community.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/vosa-storytelling-showcase/
LOCATION:Schaefer Library\, 6322 US Hwy. 87 E.\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78222
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the LitMinds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace.\nRegister\n\nThe “dazzling\, exhilarating” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from one of this century’s most groundbreaking writers \nPublished when David Foster Wallace was just twenty-four years old\, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny\, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine\, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990\, and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland\, Ohio. Lenore’s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau and boss\, Rick Vigorous\, is insanely jealous\, and her cockatiel\, Vlad the Impaler\, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble\, Auden\, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining\, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language\, storytelling\, and reality. \n\n\nAbout the Author\n\nDavid Foster Wallace was an American author and professor who wrote novels\, essays\, and short stories. His work is known for its linguistic skill\, inventive structure\, and exploration of moral and existential questions. His 1996 novel Infinite Jest\, a complex\, sprawling dystopian tale\, is his best-known work. Wallace’s essays\, published in magazines like The Atlantic and Harper’s\, are also celebrated.  \nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-book-club-wallace/
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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-05-20/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-05-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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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-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-05-30/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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