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SUMMARY:Launch Your Substack with Jennifer Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Amplify your online presence and connect with your audience\n\nSaturday\, May 2\, 10am-1pm CT via Zoom\nNonmember: $75; Member: $65; Student: $53\n*EARN CPEs; TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \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. \nWorkshop participants will leave 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. Her writing and speaking are premised on how foundations should let go of power and control—in ego\, reporting\, evaluation\, and telling funded organizations what to do—and have appeared in Designing Tomorrow\, Break Fake Rules\, EdSource\, and The Center for Effective Philanthropy. In addition\, with the support of the Stupski Foundation\, she is the author the quarterly column\, “Philanthropy Confidential” – a project of candid and humorous answers to anonymously submitted questions from the philanthropic field. Her professional experiences inspired her book-length critique of the field\, Letter of Inquiry – a project selected to be a part of the 2025 Changemakers Authors Cohort\, which supports the development of books that could have an enduring narrative impact.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/launch-your-substack/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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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 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-05-20/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-05-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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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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