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SUMMARY:11th Annual San Antonio Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Florinda Flores-Brown\, Programs Director \nGemini Ink is thrilled to announce our presence at the upcoming San Antonio Book Festival on Saturday\, April 15th. Join us from 9am to 5pm at the Central Library and UTSA Southwest Campus in downtown San Antonio\, where we’ll be ready to engage with everyone who attends this exciting event! \nThe festival will be a splendid opportunity for literary enthusiasts to interact with prominent authors and poets and attend insightful panel discussions and book signings. This year’s author lineup features 100 notable local\, regional\, and national authors who will be participating in the festival and several related events. The lineup includes nationally renowned authors like Kiese Laymon\, Geraldine Brooks\, Stephen Graham Jones\, and Pulitzer Prize–winning Jane Smiley\, among many others. There will be something for everyone\, from young adult and children’s sessions to insightful talks on current events and politics. Follow the link to see the schedule: https://sabookfestival.org/schedule/ \nStop by our booth\, pick up one of our class schedules\, and discover more about our innovative projects\, captivating readings\, and upcoming events. Gemini Ink staff will be on hand to chat with you\, answer your questions\, and share insights about the writing arts in San Antonio. Come say hello! \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/11th-annual-san-antonio-book-festival/
LOCATION:UTSA Southwest Campus\, 300 Augusta St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Steve Adams
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nWednesday\, April 19th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Steve Adams\, author of the novel Remember This. This session will be moderated by Ramona Reeves\, author of the prize-winning collection It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book\nJohn Martin\, a talented graphic designer from Texas\, has left his alcoholic mother behind and is now employed as a word processor for a prestigious New York investment bank. In the midst of the personal computer revolution and AIDS epidemic\, John embarks on an affair with his supervisor Alena Marino\, an Italian immigrant. When his oldest sister arrives unexpectedly\, John is forced to confront his past and the complex relationships he has had with beautiful women. John must now come to terms with his damaged past as he embarks on his journey of understanding.\n\n\n\nSteve Adams’ creative nonfiction has won a Pushcart Prize\, been listed as “Notable” in Best American Essays\, and published in The Pinch\, The Millions\, and elsewhere. In fiction\, he’s won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers\, and his stories have been anthologized and published in Glimmer Train\, The Missouri Review\, and elsewhere. He’s been a guest artist at UT\, a resident artist at Jentel\, and a scholar at the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony\, and his plays have been produced in NYC. His debut novel\, Remember This\, was published in October 2022. He’s a writing coach and freelance editor in Memphis.\n\nRamona Reeves is a native of Mobile\, Alabama. Her linked short story collection It Falls Gently All Aroundand Other Stories won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press last fall. She spent a decade in the Northeastern U.S.\, writing freelance articles\, proofreading for a men’s fashion weekly\, and performing production roles for Food & Wine\, Travel & Leisure\, and Esquire before moving into technical editing and writing. She eventually moved to Texas for several years before leaving to pursue her MFA in fiction. She has since returned and is nearing completion on a novel. Ramona has served as a board member for A Room of Her Own (AROHO)\, moderated and appeared on conference panels\, taught college-level writing courses\, and was an associate fiction editor for Kallisto Gaia Press. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Southampton Review\, Pembroke\, Bayou Magazine\, New South\, Superstition Review\, Texas Highways and other publications. She’s won the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize\, been a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, and is a Community of Writers alum.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-steve-adams/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Event,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Etymology of Our Artistic Practice with Diana Lizette Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, May 2\, 9\, 16 & 23\, 6-8:30pm\, CST\, offered via Zoom\nInstructor: Diana Lizette Rodriguez\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Cancelled\nWhere does your artistic practice come from? How do artists in other disciplines approach their own artistic expression? And how does understanding the origin of our art and that of others open us to new creative possibilities?\nThis four-week workshop with Diana Lizette Rodriguez will help participants identify the roots of their art practice through writing and multimedia exercises. By closely examining creative texts\, film\, photography\, and performance material and reflecting on other artistic processes\, participants will fully envision or rethink their own. The workshop will also explore how ancestry\, family trees\, landscape\, and location can inform the root of artistic expression.  \nThe overall goal of these reflections\, writing prompts\, and multimedia assignments is to help writers deepen their own creativity and to open up the way they approach making art.  \nThis workshop is open to writers 16 and older of all skill levels. Spanish speakers and writers are also welcome! \nParticipants will leave this course with the following: \n\n An expanded viewpoint on how other mediums boost creative practice\n Acknowledgment of where your creative energy comes from\n New artistic foundations to create deeper work in your life\n\n\nDiana Lizette Rodriguez is an experimental artist who works with installation\, painting\, performance\, photography\, and the illuminating world of poetry. A Mexican-American artist from San Antonio\, Texas\, Rodriguez explores the fragmented decay the world portrays. Her work holds reminders of impermanence\, and she creates these reminders with disruption\, disorientation\, and unknown predictabilities. Rodriguez pushes to work with a conceptualized intention\, questions the reason for Art\, and finds concepts like the 4th Dimension to be an idea her path wants to follow. To dive into. Questions such as “If I go to the 4th Dimension\, would I be able to come back to the 1st?” arise\, and Rodriguez\, as an artist\, does not find the answer to such a question. She just creates.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/exploring-the-etymology-of-our-artistic-practice/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Voices of San Anto Bilingual Storytelling Workshop with Marisela Barrera
DESCRIPTION:You have a story to tell\, and we want to help you tell it!\n\n\n\n\nJoin poet and storyteller Marisela Barrera for a free\, two-session workshop at the San Antonio Public Library. Craft a five to seven-minute story about a significant moment in your life and present it a public performance and celebration. Whether it’s that funny anecdote you share at parties\, an event that changed your life\, or a family story passed down for generations\, your story matters\, and we want to help you bring it to life. \nThis workshop is for adults 18+\, and no writing or performance experience is required. Native Spanish speakers and bilingual folks are highly encouraged to register. \n\n\nYou will leave the workshop with: \n\nA fully-formed story ready for performance\nAn understanding of story elements\nPerformance strategies for effective live storytelling\nExperience sharing a story with friends\, family\, and the community\n\n\n\n\n\nDates:\nWriting Sessions May 6 & 13\, 1-5pm \nFinal Celebration May 20\, 10:30am-12:30pm \n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email Sarah De La Rosa:\nsarah.delarosa@sanantonio.gov\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(If email link is not clickable\, cut and paste the email sarah.delarosa@sanantonio.gov into your email client.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarisela Barrera is a Tejana writer and teatrista who writes short stories and turns them into transmedia performances. She spins and eats fire with Jump-Start Performance Co.\, teaches writing at Northwest Vista College\, and is a Resident Actor with the Public Theater of San Antonio. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/voices-of-san-anto-1/
LOCATION:Central Library\, 600 Soledad\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:(Poetry) Slam 201 with C.L. “Rooster” Martinez
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, May 6\, 13\, 20 & 27\, 2-4pm\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: C.L. “Rooster” Martinez\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Cancelled\n\nImagine stepping up to the mic at a poetry slam with less than 3 minutes to captivate the audience.\nWhat will you say? How will you use your voice\, face\, and body language to take the audience on an emotional rollercoaster? \n\n(Poetry) Slam 201 is a generative and performance workshop focused on individual and collaborative writing for live competition. We will briefly examine the history and rules of the Slam Poetry genre\, write new and exciting work as individuals and teams\, use a critique session to delve deep into the poem’s intended message\, and focus on moving the written word from the page to the microphone. Participants will receive performance tips and feedback that will add emotional depth and impact to their spoken word delivery. \n(Poetry) Slam 201 is designed for most writers (17 years old and up) of any experience level.  \n*For those who took Slam 101\, this class will expand on the knowledge gained in the first class and is more generative and performance-focused. Please note (Poetry) Slam 101 is not a prerequisite\, as this class will briefly reintroduce the lessons of the former class. \nParticipants will leave this class with the following tools: \n\nKnowledge of Slam Poetry history & rules\nPractice writing individual and collaborative poems \nWriting and performance feedback for creating a powerful stage presentation\n\n\nChristopher “Rooster” Martinez is an educator and spoken word poet from San Antonio\, Texas. He earned a MA/MFA in Creative Writing\, Literature & Social Justice at Our Lady of the Lake University. He is the author of two poetry books: A Saint for Lost Things (Alabrava Press\, 2020) and As it is in Heaven (Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press\, 2020). For twelve years\, Rooster competed and won slams across the country and co-founded the literary nonprofit Write Art Out Inc.  \n\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/poetry-slam-201/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Andrew Porter
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\nWednesday\, May 17th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Andrew Porter\, author of the story collection\, The Disappeared.\nJoin us for The Big Texas Author Talk\, a free monthly lecture series that showcases Texas authors from different parts of the state\, including New York Times bestsellers and Latinx border authors. The series offers informative and entertaining conversations with storytellers who represent the diverse spirit of Texas. Past featured authors include Kathleen Kent\, Marisol Cortez\, Joe Lansdale\, and Carmen Tafolla\, among others. Join us virtually on the third Wednesday of every month at 7 pm CST. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\nA collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our lives\, by the acclaimed\, award-winning author of The Theory of Light and Matter \n\n\n“What a beautiful book about the profound mystery of ordinary life.” —Alix Ohlin\, author of We Want What We Want \n\n\n\nA husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous codependency. With gorgeous sensitivity\, assurance\, and a propulsive sense of menace\, these stories center on disappearances\, both literal and figurative—lives and loves that are cut short\, the vanishing of one’s youthful self. From San Antonio to Austin\, from the clamor of a crowded restaurant to the cigarette at a lonely kitchen table\, Andrew Porter captures each of these relationships mid-flight\, every individual life punctuated by loss and beauty and need. The Disappeared reaffirms the undeniable artistry of a contemporary master of the form. \n\n\n\nANDREW PORTER is the author of the story collection The Theory of Light and Matter and the novel In Between Days. 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 One Story\, The Threepenny Review\, and Ploughshares\, 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/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-andrew-porter/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Spot Revision with Mary Helen Stefaniak
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 20\, 10am-1pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Mary Helen Stefaniak\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Vet/Mil $50 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \n\nHow often could someone look up from reading your manuscript and say to the person across the table\, “Listen to this!”?\n\n\nDo you reward the reader with juicy details and interesting word choices to sink their mind into on every single page? In this spot revision class\, we will examine our written work and find opportunities to expand\, rephrase\, and substitute words for attention-grabbing language. We will also discuss ways to make our work fresh and unpredictable and add texture. We are not focusing on small mistakes but on small ways to take our prose to the next level. \nTo prepare for this class\, we will read mentor texts and prepare a page (250 to 300 words) pulled from our own fiction or creative nonfiction to use in practice. In class\, we’ll exchange pages and provide suggestions for making our writing more riveting and our word choice more compelling. Then\, we’ll assess the comments and apply the techniques learned in class to create a stronger draft.  \nThis workshop is open to writers of all skill levels with work ready to edit. \nIn this class\, you will:  \n\nGain new editing strategies to pack powerful prose onto each page\nGive and receive on-the-spot editing suggestions\nLearn to sift through feedback to keep what’s useful \n\n\nMary Helen Stefaniak’s new novel\, The World of Pondside\, was released by Blackstone Publishing in April 2022. Booklist has said of the novel—a mystery set in a nursing home—that “Stefaniak infuses an often forbidding environment with joy and dignity in this Agatha Christie-esque cyber caper.” Mary Helen’s first book of nonfiction\, The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life\, was published by The University of Iowa Press in Fall 2022. The essays are selected from more than 20 years’ worth of monthly columns she wrote for The Iowa Source. Mary Helen Stefaniak is a writer of fiction and essays whose work has appeared in many publications\, including The Iowa Review\, EPOCH\, The Yale Review\, AGNI\,  The Antioch Review\, and in several anthologies. You can read more about Mary Helen and her work at https://maryhelenstefaniak.com.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/spot-revision-with-mary-helen-stefaniak/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:'Tell All the Truth\, but Tell It Slant:' Writing About Trauma with Thomas McNeely
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, June 3\, 10\, 17 & 24\, 10am-12pm CST via Zoom\nInstructor: Thomas McNeely\nNonmember: $150; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nHow do we tell the story of a traumatic event or its aftermath?  What if\, after the event\, we were silenced by others or just by our own inability to put the experience into words? \n  \nIn this generative course\, we will experiment with different approaches to narrating real or fictional trauma while keeping in mind that each traumatic experience suggests a variety of different stories and may be narrated in a variety of different ways. We will explore writing different versions of the same story and decide which form–poem\, short story\, novel\, memoir\, or a hybrid of any of these narrative approaches–will best capture the traumatic experience and its after effects.  \nOur approaches will be based on short excerpts from work by Sylvia Plath\, Brian Teare\, Ocean Vuong\, Mary Karr\, Eimear McBride\, and other creative writers\, and will incorporate ideas from trauma narrative theorists and researchers\, including Cathy Caruth and Bessel van der Kolk. \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels. \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following: \n\nAn understanding of how to write about trauma and its impact\nIdeas on which narrative form can best capture the traumatic experience \nA starting place for their own piece of writing \n\n\n\nAn East Side Houston native\, THOMAS H. McNEELY has received National Endowment for the Arts\, Wallace Stegner\, MacDowell Colony\, and Dobie Paisano fellowships for his fiction. Pictures of the Shark: Stories (Texas Review Press) is his second book.  His first book\, Ghost Horse\, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic\, Texas Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and many other magazines and anthologies\, including The Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books’ Best of the South. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award anthologies. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College\, Boston\, and has led writing workshops at the Grub Street Writers Workshops\, the Lighthouse Writers Workshops\, the Writers’ League of Texas\, Writespace Houston\, and Inprint Houston.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Creative Writer’s Professional Toolkit with Lyzette Wanzer
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, June 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 & July 11\, 18\, 6:30-8:30pm CST via Zoom\nInstructor: Lyzette Wanzer\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nAre you ready to take the leap from writing hobbyist to professional writer? If so\, gain the tools every professional writer needs to make it in a competitive field.\nThis intensive hands-on workshop will provide you with the career savvy you need to stand out from the crowd of writers who\, though they may be talented\, lack the marketplace acumen they need to boost their opportunities from good to great. Learn a comprehensive set of professional practices that translate your talent into actionable\, real-world skills for elevating your literary career. Learn how to increase your chances of earning grants\, landing residencies\, and getting published.  \nOver the course of this workshop\, you will acquire the practices and strategies you need to take advantage of scores of opportunities for your work–skills you can put into immediate effect! After completing this course\, many students have garnered their first literary grant\, writing conference invitation\, or publication credit. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nA short & long bio\nA current writer’s curriculum vitae/resume that will get you noticed\nIdeas for keeping track of professional achievements and updating your CV\n\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 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/writers-professional-toolkit/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:How Writers Read with Bestselling Author Laura Castoro
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, June 7\, 14\, 21\, 28 & July 12\, 19\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid: Via Zoom or in person.\nInstructor: Laura Castoro\nNonmember: $155; Member: $135; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nHave you ever read a great book that grabs you from the first page and wondered\, “How did the author do that?” Reading can be a writer’s greatest teacher when it comes to learning what works and doesn’t work on the page. \n\nIn this 6-week workshop\, with bestselling author Laura Castoro as our guide\, we will use close reading to examine how the writing pros achieve enviable work. We will explore how to read more deeply so we can deconstruct how the author sets the mood\, adheres to or manipulates conventions\, and plays with boundaries. In each session\, we will use excerpts from popular fiction books and short writing prompts to stimulate our imagination and inspire new written work.   \nThis course is open to adult writers of all skill levels.  \nIn this course\, students will: \n\nExplore how to effectively set the mood of a story to draw the reader in\nIdentify how writers manipulate conventions and play with boundaries\nLearn what is and is not important to the reader\nImmediately apply concepts using short\, generative writing prompts\n\nRead Laura’s Writer’s Desk interview HERE.\n\nLaura Castoro\, a USA Today\, Amazon top 100\, and Apple Books bestseller\, has published 47 novels with major publishing houses such as Dell Books\, Berkley\, Avon\, Warner\, MIRA\, Harlequin\, Kensington\, Pocketbooks\, St\, Harper Collins\, Martins Press\, and William Morrow. She has also contributed to several fiction anthologies and has published non-fiction YA and short fiction in Good Housekeeping. Under the name Laura Parker\, she writes historical and contemporary romance\, westerns\, and sagas. As Laura Castoro\, she writes contemporary African American and contemporary women’s fiction. Writing as D. D. Ayres\, she publishes a romantic suspense series called the K-9 Rescue Series. Her current release as Laura Castoro is Love On The Line (2021) through William Morrow. \nLaura has won multiple national writing awards. In 2005 she was inducted into the Arkansas Writers’ Hall of Fame. She is a past president of Novelists\, Inc. (2013)\, an international professional fiction writers’ organization. She is a past president and board member of the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow\, a writer residency program in the AR Ozarks. She is a speaker at numerous conferences and workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Laura currently lives in San Antonio\, TX.  Visit www.ddayres.com.\n \n\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/how-writers-read/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Richard Z. Santos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 21\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Richard Z. Santos\, author of the novel\, Trust Me.\nModerated by Daniel Peña.\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for ​Trust Me \nOne of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year for The Millions and Crime Reads. \nCrime Reads (One of March’s Best): “… the author’s knowledge of Santa Fe and its quirky denizens shines throughout the book. Highly recommended!” \nKirkus Reviews: “A compulsively readable debut by a Texas writer who knows his New Mexico.“ \nThe Texas Observer: “[Trust Me] has enough speed and twists to make you feel like you’re flying on the edges of the Sandia mountains… “ \nCharles O’Connell is riding an epic losing streak. Having worked in politics since college\, he is used to losing races\, but he never imagined that his most recent candidate would end up in jail and that he would also need an attorney. His euphoria at not joining his boss in prison is short-lived—no one will hire him now\, his credit cards are maxed out and his marriage is on the rocks. \nAn unexpected offer to work in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, doing public relations for a firm building the city’s new airport feels like an opportunity to start fresh and make connections with powerful people out west. But when the construction crew unearths a skeleton\, Charles’ fresh start turns into another disaster. Soon\, a group of Apache claims the site holds Geronimo’s secret grave. \nCharles quickly realizes everyone has an agenda—and numerous dark secrets threaten to erupt. Gabriel Luna\, one of the laborers present when the skeleton is unearthed\, is willing to do just about anything to reconnect with his teenage son. Cody Branch\, an ambitious\, powerful millionaire\, plans to leverage the deal to enrich himself. And there’s his wife\, Olivia Branch\, who has a surprising connection to Charles’ past and desperately needs his help. \nSurrounded by deception on all fronts\, including his own lies to himself and his wife\, Charles falls into a whirlwind of fraud\, betrayal and double crosses. This riveting novel barrels through the New Mexican landscape in an exploration of innocence and guilt\, power and wealth\, and the search for love and happiness. \nExcerpts featured in Criminal Element and Lone Star Literary.  \n\n\n\nRichard Z. Santos is a writer and high school teacher living in Austin. His debut novel\, Trust Me\, was released by Arte Público Press in 2020. He is a Board Member of the National Book Critics Circle and served as a non-fiction judge for the 2019 Kirkus Prize. ​He is also an Associate Editor for American Short Fiction. Click on the “My Work” page for links to many essays\, stories\, poems\, reviews\, and profiles. Before becoming a writer and teacher\, Richard lived in Washington\, DC and worked for some of the nation’s top campaigns\, political consulting firms\, and labor unions. Richard has an MFA from Texas State University and has taught at Texas State\, Georgetown University\, and The University of the District of Columbia. He is currently seeking representation for his second novel: Every Family Is A Conspiracy Theory.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Assistant Professor. Formerly\, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City where he worked as 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.\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUPCOMING 2023 AUTHORS AND TITLES \nJuly Jehanne Dubrow–Taste: A Book of Small Bites  \nAugust Ruben Degollado–The Family Izquierdo \nSeptember Thomas McNeely–Pictures of the Shark  \nOctober Katie Guttierrez–TBA \nNovember Carmen Tafolla–Girl Warrior (Sept 2023 – Penguin)  \nDecember TBA \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-richard-z-santos/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230629T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230629T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T174141
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SUMMARY:Writing the Queer in Hostile Times: A Pride Month Literary Panel
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, June 29th\, to wrap up Pride Month 2023 with a timely and intimate literary discussion about current events and their relationship to the written and spoken word.  \nThis event\, including featured authors Chibbi Orduña\, Kit Curá\, and Anel I. Flores\, will offer a safe space to discuss how these divisive times affect LGBTQ+ writers and how these writers wield the literary arts to push back against current hostilities\, celebrate who they are\, and question societal expectations. Moderated by Mary Reading. \n\nKit Curá (they/them) is a nonbinary butch lesbian currently living in Houston\, Texas. Originally from Buenos Aires\, Argentina\, they moved to the United States at the age of six\, yet they diligently cultivate a connection to their Latine heritage and identity. A graduate of Trinity University (with a B.A. in English) and Texas State University (with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing)\, Curá ultimately aims to use their passions for creating\, community outreach\, and LGBTQ storytelling to uplift queer and trans youth (particularly those from underrepresented communities) through the stories that they create\, telling them: “we are worth fighting for\, protecting\, and loving; and\, if no one else is willing to do these things for us\, then we will do them for each other.” \nAnel I. Flores is a trans-\, queer Latina/x writer\, artist\, activist and life-coach. They are a visionary creative whose extensive body of work captures the essence of LGBTQIA+ experiences. Her contributions to art\, education\, literature\, advocacy\, and community-building have left an indelible mark. Anel’s areas of expertise encompass various themes such as Latina/x literature\, sexuality\, gender\, race/border/diaspora\, spirituality\, body\, and blood memory. With an MFA in Creative Writing\, Anel I. Flores is a highly accomplished author\, having penned notable works like chapbook titled “La Fea” and the Lambda literary award-nominated book\, “Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas.” Additionally\, her upcoming novel\, “Cortinas de Lluvia\,” is set to be released in 2024 along with the 2nd edition of Empanada\, doubled with a Spanish translation. Anel’s literary contributions can be found in esteemed publications such as Switchgrass Review\, Camino Real\, the Fifth Wednesday Journal\, RiverSEdge\, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche\, Rooted: Queer Women of Color Anthology\, Sinister Wisdom\, Raspa Magazine\, iungo Arts Magazine\, the Lodestar Quarterly\, The Pitkin Literary Review\, and La Voz. \nM.R. “Chibbi” Orduña is a Mexican-born\, Texas-raised queer poet\, performer\, publisher\, producer and community organizer\, Editor in Chief & Director of Virtual Programming at Write About Now Publishing and The Mixtape Literary Journal\, and director and co-host of the Words and Sh*t and After 2 Tequila Shots podcasts. They are a 2022 Tin House fellow\, and have self-published 2 books\, been a finalist for the 2021 Wax Nine Chapbook Competition and 2022 Robert Phillips Chapbook Competition\, and the co-editor of the anthology Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out (Flowersong Press\, 2020). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Texas Review\, Wax Wing\, Los Angeles Poet Society\, Acentos Review\, The Latino Book Review Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, We are Mitu\, and Button Poetry. Their videos have over 1 million views across social media platforms. You can find them on IG @gemineyes and on Twitter @gemineyespoetry. \nMary Reading teaches English and Literature classes at Northwest Vista Colleges. A Pennsylvania native\, Mary is currently working on her PhD in Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The title of their dissertation is “Transformation: From Drag to Transgender Representation in Film and Television.” Their prospective graduation date is December 2023. They enjoy spending time with their cats and dog\, Brie\, Feta\, and Gouda\, and traveling in their free time. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writing-the-queer-in-hostile-times/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230701T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230701T130000
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SUMMARY:How to Use Lists to Generate Endless Writing Ideas with Nathan Brown
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, July 1 & 8\, 10am-1pm CST\, Hybrid (in-person and online)\nInstructor: Nathan Brown\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \n  \nMaster the art of the list and never get caught without something to write about! \n  \nMany writers\, from Dickens to Twain\, and Hemingway on up to Stephen King\, had (or have) a daily writing practice\, and many say this discipline was their ‘great teacher’ when it comes to the craft of writing. In this open genre workshop\, we will demystify the idea of “writer’s block\,” explore techniques to maintain a sustainable daily writing practice\, and discuss what works and doesn’t work for busy writers. This will be a generative workshop\, so you will leave this workshop with plenty of ideas.  \nThis course is open to adult writers of all genres and all skill levels.  \nStudents will leave this workshop with the following:  \n\nIdeas on how to use lists to generate material and organize it into “themes” \nGuidance on how to establish and maintain a daily writing practice \nTime management tips on scheduling “bite-sized” writing time and getting the work done\nWriting topics to explore and develop after the class\n\n\nNathan Brown is an author\, songwriter\, and award-winning poet living in Wimberley\, Texas. He holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma\, where he’s taught for over 20 years. He served as Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma in 2013-14\, and now travels full-time performing readings\, concerts\, workshops\, and speaking on creativity\, poetry\, and songwriting. \nNathan has published over 20 books. Most recent are his new collection of poems\, In the Days for Our Resilience\, the fourth in a series now known as the Pandemic Poems Project\, and a new travel memoir\, Just Another Honeymoon in France: A Vagabond at Large. A previous collection\, Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems\, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Oklahoma Book Award. \nHe’s written at least one poem a day for the last twenty-five years and says nothing has taught him more about writing. \n\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/generate-endless-writing-ideas/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230706T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230706T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T174141
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SUMMARY:TELLING A STORY OF YOUR LIFE: A Personal Essay Workshop with Kendra Allen
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 & Aug 3\, 10\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid: Via Zoom or in person.\nInstructor: Kendra Allen\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full\nTo add your name to the waiting list\, email joshua@geminiink.org. \n  \nIn the span of every life are countless moments\, stories\, and revelations. When writing a personal narrative\, how do writers select what will most speak their truth and resonate with readers?\n  \nIn this 6-week course\, we’ll focus on demystifying the personal narrative process by figuring out what’s a snapshot and what’s a story. Writing is hard\, and writing about yourself is sometimes even harder. Most times\, we typically assume we have to state our entire lives in one piece\, so even the thought of putting pen to page becomes intimidating. This workshop will explore how to pinpoint storylines within ourselves by simply leaning into who you naturally are\, how you naturally sound\, and what you naturally gravitate to\, as a writer. Through games\, prompts\, and other exercises\, we’ll focus on generating work every week\, searching for our many truths\, and coming out on the other side with sentences that start with words like “I” and “My.” This course is open to adult writers of all skill levels.   \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following: \n\nA starting point for a personal essay\nAn understanding of how to differentiate between a situation and a story\nTechniques for nurturing your voice on the page\nIdeas on how to create prompts for yourself to generate material\n\nRead Kendra’s Writer’s Desk here!\n\nAn award-winning essayist and poet\, Kendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas\, TX. She loves laughing\, leaving\, and writing Make Love in My Car\, a music column for Southwest Review. Some of her other work can be found in The Paris Review\, High Times\, The Rumpus\, and more. She’s the author of the New York Times lauded poetry collection The Collection Plate (Harper Collins 2022) and essay collection When You Learn the Alphabet\, which won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. Fruit Punch (Ecco 2022)\, her memoir\, is out now and receiving praise from all corners. Jaquira Díaz\, author of Ordinary Girls\, states: “A stunning and original memoir about Black girlhood and coming of age. Allen is both a storyteller and poet\, observing the world with curiosity and humor. Fruit Punch is simultaneously brilliant cultural commentary and an intimate portrayal of family and community\, and it will stay with me for a long\, long time.” \n\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/telling-a-story-of-your-life/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230710T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230710T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T174141
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SUMMARY:The Poetry of Food with Eddie Vega 
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, July 10\, 17\, 24 & 31\, 2023\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Eddie Vega\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nFood is much more than sustenance–it’s family recipes\, friend-filled reunions\, and debates over who makes it best\, who made it right\, and why ketchup can’t be spread on tamales! Most importantly\, food is culture. This workshop will explore all of this and more as participants write about the dishes\, meals\, and snacks that have impacted their palate and their lives. \nIn this 4-session workshop\, we will dig up memories we associate with food\, and use these recollections to explore writing about the delectable in different poetic forms\, including haiku\, odes\, sonnets\, lists\, etc. Each session will include mentor texts and generative work. This course is open to adult writers of all skill levels.  \nStudents will leave this course with: \n\nSuggestions on how to capture the essence and meaning of food\nKnowledge of and experience with writing in different poetic forms \nUnderstanding of how personal history and culture influence how we perceive food\n\nRead Eddie’s Writer’s Desk here!\n\nEddie Vega is a poet\, spoken word artist\, storyteller\, and educator. His poetry has been displayed on VIA Buses and downtown San Antonio buildings. His first full-length collection of poetry\, Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press) was published in 2019 and he is the 2021 recipient of the Literary Arts Grant from the Luminaria Artist Foundation. In 2022\, Vega won the Haiku Death Match at both the Southern Fried Poetry Slam and the NSFPS BlackBerry Peach Slam. His latest project is a collection of poems written by South Texas poets entitled\, Asina is How We Talk. Vega writes about food\, Tejano culture\, social justice\, and the intersections thereof. Known as the Taco-Poet of Texas\, he can be found nightly at an open-mic\, slam\, or taqueria anywhere throughout South Texas. \n\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/poetry-of-food/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230719T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230719T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T174141
CREATED:20230707T154953Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring  Jehanne Dubrow
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nWednesday\, July 19\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Jehanne Dubrow’s Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press\, 2022).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Taste: \nTaste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses\, which we often take for granted. Structured as a series of “small bites\,” the book considers the ways that we ingest the world\, how we come to know ourselves and others through the daily act of tasting. \nThrough flavorful explorations of the sweet\, the sour\, the salty\, the bitter\, and umami\, Jehanne Dubrow reflects on the nature of taste. In a series of short\, interdisciplinary essays\, she blends personal experience with analysis of poetry\, fiction\, music\, and the visual arts\, as well as religious and philosophical texts. Dubrow considers the science of taste and how taste transforms from a physical sensation into a metaphor for discernment. \nTaste is organized not so much as a linear dinner served in courses but as a meal consisting of meze\, small plates of intensely flavored discourse. \n\n\n\n\nJehanne Dubrow is the author of nine books of poems\, including most recently\, Wild Kingdom (LSU Press\, 2021)\, and two books of creative nonfiction\, throughsmoke: an essay in notes (New Rivers Press\, 2019)\, and Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press\, 2022). Her third book of nonfiction\, Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity\, is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press in 2023. Her previous poetry collections are Simple Machines\, American Samizdat\, Dots & Dashes\, The Arranged Marriage\, Red Army Red\, Stateside\, From the Fever-World\, and The Hardship Post. She has co-edited two anthologies\, The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume and Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse.  \nJehanne’s poems have appeared in POETRY\, Poetry Northwest\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, Southern Review\, American Life in Poetry\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Slowdown\, The Academy of American Poets\, as well as on Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, and in numerous other venues. Recent essays have appeared in The New England Review\, Colorado Review\, The Common\, The Seneca Review\, Image\, and West Branch. She is the founding editor of the national literary journal\, Cherry Tree. \nJehanne earned a B.A. in the “Great Books” from St. John’s College\, an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland\, an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  \nJehanne’s writing moves between traditional forms\, free verse\, prose poetry\, lyric essay\, autotheory\, and personal essay. In Stateside and Dots & Dashes (and in her current manuscript-in-progress\, Civilians)\, she examines her experiences as a military spouse and explores the tradition of war literature. In books like The Arranged Marriage\, From the Fever-World\, and The Hardship Post\, she writes about the Holocaust\, American Jewish identity\, intergenerational trauma\, and the challenges of representing violence on the page. Her collections\, Wild Kingdom\, Simple Machines\, American Samizdat\, and Red Army Red\, consider the intersection of power\, cruelty\, and authoritarianism. Jehanne is also passionate about the five senses; she has written about the art and science of perfume in throughsmoke: an essay in notes and about our sense of taste in Taste: A Book of Small Bites. And\, in her forthcoming Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity\, she looks at the act of looking itself. \nJehanne has been a recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America\, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry from Beloit Poetry Journal\, the Crab Orchard Series Open Competition Book Award\, the Diode Editions Book Contest\, the Editors’ Prize in Prose from Bat City Review\, the Firecracker Award in Prose from CLMP\, an Individual Artist’s Award from the Maryland State Arts Council\, the Mississippi Review Prize in Poetry\, the Poetry by the Sea Book Award\, the Towson University Prize for Literature\,  a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and a Howard Nemerov Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and a Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. \nThe daughter of American diplomats\, Jehanne was born in Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia\, Zaire\, Poland\, Belgium\, Austria\, and the United States. She lives with her two Bedlington Terriers and with her husband who recently retired from a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy. Jehanne is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-jehanne-dubrow/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230801T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230801T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T174141
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SUMMARY:Generative Flash Fiction with Andrew Porter 
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Aug 1  & 8\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (via Zoom and in-person at Gemini Ink)\nInstructor: Andrew Porter\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE.\nClass closed. To add your name to the waiting list\, please contact joshua@geminiink.org. \nQuick consumption–that is how today’s audiences engage with all forms of media and entertainment. This makes flash fiction an ideal form for readers who want to go on a short but thrilling ride in less than 1\,500 words. But how does a writer tell a potent and satisfactory story in such a short form? \nIn this introductory workshop\, participants will study different types of flash fiction\, discuss effective strategies for working within the constraints of this form\, and complete in-class writing prompts with the goal of developing these exercises into more polished flash pieces. Finally\, for those interested in sharing\, time will be set aside during the second class for students to share their flash-in-progress with the group. \nStudents will leave this workshop with the following: \n\nAn understanding of the fundamentals of flash fiction\nStrategies for generating successful flash fiction\nA first-draft flash fiction piece\n\nRead Andrew’s Writer’s Desk here!\n\nANDREW PORTER is the acclaimed\, award-winning author of the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf 2023) and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage)\, and the novel In Between Days (Knopf). An Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate\, 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 One Story\, The Threepenny Review\, Ploughshares\, Narrative\, 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. \n\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/generative-flash-fiction/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230802T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230802T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T174141
CREATED:20230424T200233Z
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SUMMARY:Strange Family Stories: An Adult Picture Book Writing Class with Xavier Garza
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, Aug 2\, 9 & 16\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (via Zoom and in-person at Gemini Ink)\nInstructor: Xavier Garza\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nLa Llorona\, the Chupacabra\, the Haunted Train Tracks of San Antonio\, the power of the all healing Huevo\, or that crazy story about a relative who had a close encounter of the mysterious kind. We all have strange stories that have been passed down\, and this workshop is a chance to memorialize one story for future generations. What better way to bring this story to life than a picture book for adults?  \nIn this three-week class\, students will draw from their family stories\, popular folklore\, superstitions\, and creepy creature legends to create their own picture book for adults. Participants will take these entertaining stories\, divide them into sections\, align the story with drawings and other media\, and create a memento to pass down. The class will also touch on bookbinding and publishing.  \nThis course is open to adult writers of all skill levels. Workshop materials will be provided for those who take the class in person. For those joining online\, a suggested materials list will be provided.  \nStudents will leave this workshop with: \n\nA new type of storytelling that balances images and words\nAn understanding of picture book formats and rules\nA picture book in progress that can be completed at home\nIdeas on bookbinding and publishing\n\n\nXavier Garza was born in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He is an enthusiastic author\, artist\, teacher and storyteller whose work is a lively documentation of life\, dreams\, superstitions\, and heroes in the bigger-than-life world of South Texas. Garza has exhibited his art and performed his stories in venues throughout Texas\, Arizona\, and the state of Washington. He has received such recognitions as the Pura Belpre Honor book and the Libro de las Americas Honor book awards. He lives with his wife and son in San Antonio\, Texas\, and is the author of numerous books. \n\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/strange-family-stories/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230806T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetry of Food Final Celebration Reading
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss out on the final celebration of the students from Eddie Vega’s workshop\, “The Poetry of Food.” They will share their amazing work at Dakota Ice House. The event will be hosted by Eddie Vega himself\, and there will be an open mic session following the students’ performances. It’s a great opportunity to hear some talented poets! This event takes place at the Dakota East Side Ice House. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetry-of-food-final-celebration-reading/
LOCATION:Dakota Ice House\, 433 S Hackberry St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78203
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230816T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T174141
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230818T160401Z
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SUMMARY:Veteran’s 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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16/2023-08-16/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230816T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Rubén Degollado
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for the Zoom link.\n  \n\nWednesday\, August 16th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Novelist Rubén Degollado’s The Family Izquierdo (W.W. Norton\, 2022). Moderated by Marcela Fuentes.\n\n  \n\nAbout The Family Izquierdo\nA Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2022\nLonglisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award\nA masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love\, and a curse.\n\nThe tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo’s marriage is falling apart; daughter Dina\, beleaguered by the fear that her nightmares are real\, is a shut-in. When Gonzalo digs up a strange object in the backyard of the family home\, the Izquierdos take it as proof that a jealous neighbor has cursed them—could this be the reason for all their troubles? As the Izquierdos face a distressing present and an uncertain future\, they are sustained by the blood that binds them\, a divine presence\, and an abiding love for one another. Told in a series of soulful voices brimming with warmth and humor\, The Family Izquierdo is a tender narrative of a family at a turning point. \nRubén Degollado is an educator from Texas and the author of The Family Izquierdo: A Novel and the young adult novel Throw. His fiction has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal\, Gulf Coast\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, and Image.\nVisit www.rubendegollado.com \nMarcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review\, The Rumpus\, Texas Highways Magazine\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Texas Christian University. She was born and raised in Del Rio\, Texas. \nHer debut novel MALAS (June 2024) and linked story collection MY HEART HAS MORE ROOMS THAN A WHOREHOUSE (Summer\, 2025) are forthcoming from Viking Books.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-ruben-degollado/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230824T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230824T203000
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SUMMARY:"A Night of Celebration" with ire'ne lara silva as 2023 Texas Poet Laureate
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, August 24th\, for a festive evening celebrating ire’ne lara silva as our new 2023 Texas Poet Laureate. \n  \nire’ne will be reading from her works\, and she will be joined by South Texas writers Octavio Quintanilla\, former San Antonio Poet Laureate and publisher of Alabrava press; Jen Yanez-Alaniz with her debut book of poems Surrogate Eater (Alabrava Press\, 2023); and Gume Laurel\, a Rio Grande Valley poet and YA author. \nCome to Gemini Ink to meet and congratulate our new state Poet Laureate. Hear power-packed poetry and enjoy the literary company of other readers and writers while sipping cool summer  refreshments. Stay for the informal Q&A with ire’ne. \n\nBIO’s: \nire’ne lara silva\, the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate\, is the author of four poetry collections\, furia\, Blood Sugar Canto\, CUICACALLI/House of Song\, and FirstPoems; two chapbooks\, Enduring Azucares and Hibiscus Tacos; and a short story collection\, flesh to bone\, which won the Premio Aztlán. ire’ne is the recipient of a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant\, a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant\, the final Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award\, and was the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award. Most recently\, ire’ne was awarded the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction. ire’ne is currently a Writer at Large for Texas Highways Magazine and is working on a second collection of short stories titled\, the light of your body. A new poetry collection\, the eaters of flowers\, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press in January 2024. \nJen Yáñez-Alaniz is a Chicana Mestiza activist\, educator\, poet\, and PhD Fellow in Culture\, Literacy\, and Language at the University of Texas\, San Antonio. Her poetry can be read in various journals and anthologies. She is the author of an extensive critical biography of Carmen Tafolla published in the forthcoming anthology Chicana Portraits. Her debut poetry chapbook\, Surrogate Eater\, was published by Alabrava Press in 2023.  \nOctavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collection\, If I Go Missing\, the founder and director of the literature & arts festival\, VersoFrontera\, publisher of Alabrava Press\, and former 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. His new poetry collection\, The Book of Wounded Sparrows\, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in fall 2024. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. \nGume Laurel is a Texan\, native to the Rio Grande Valley on the southernmost border. For the past decade\, he has dedicated himself to crafting literary works that promote inclusion and showcase diverse characters with intersectional identities. The bulk of Gume’s writings are focused on underrepresented groups\, especially those from the communities he is a part of: Latine and queer. His writings include poetry and young adult fiction of various genres. When he isn’t writing\, Gume can be found getting lost on a hiking trail with his dogs Blu and Mouse. 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/elebration-with-irene-lara-silva-as-2023-texas-poet-laureate/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Start and Run Your Own Publishing Business with Maria Maloney
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Sept 5\, 12\, 19 & 26\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Maria Miranda Maloney\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n\n\n\n  \nDo you want to leave your imprint on your literary community? \nDo you want to run your own press or independent publishing house\, but don’t know where to begin? Or are you currently in the publishing business but looking for ways to bolster your publication process\, marketing\, and distribution?  \nIn this course\, we will study various successful small-to-mid-size publishers and walk through the steps of starting or growing a small press. This process will include developing a mission statement\, exploring resources\, producing an operating budget\, creating a customer profile\, and discussing distribution options. We will use these elements to build a business plan that will help you execute your vision. \nThis course is for anyone who has dreamed of starting their own press or is curious to explore different ways to impact their literary communities. This class is also for established publishers looking for new business ideas.  \nCourse Learning Objectives \n\nAssess your interest and strengths to launch a publishing business. \nDevelop a mission serving a unique\, underserved\, or underdeveloped niche.\nUnderstand your customer and target market.\nIntegrate financial facets into your development plan.\nDraft a business plan. \n\n\n\nMaria Miranda Maloney is an entrepreneur\, writer\, editor\, and publisher. She founded Mouthfeel Press\, a small for-profit\, mission-driven publishing house\, in 2009 in El Paso\, Texas. Before launching her press\, Maria worked as a consultant and project manager in public relations\, sales\, and small business development sectors. She has over sixteen years of experience in publishing\, has coordinated publishing and writing workshops for the Wise Latina International organization\, and was the Ofstad Writing Scholar at Truman State University in 2019. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and is finishing her M.A. in Publishing from George Washington University in Washington\, D.C. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/start-and-run-your-own-publishing-business-with-maria-maloney/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230912T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230912T203000
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SUMMARY:Weaving Across Languages: A Poetry Workshop with Octavio Quintanilla
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Sept 12\, 19 & 26\, 2023 6:30pm-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (in-person at Gemini Ink and online via Zoom)\nInstructor: Octavio Quintanilla\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n\n  \n\nSlang\, dialects\, common expressions\, codeswitching\, and every variation of language from across the world. Translanguage captures the rich variety of how people express themselves. It taps into culture\, family\, all the places we’ve lived\, and our own linguistic quirks. \nIn this three-session workshop\, participants will study the poetry of writers who use translanguaging to infuse their work with a unique voice. Participants will identify and explore all of the languages that are part of who they are\, and use prompts to write poems that weave in their linguistic identity. This workshop will also include techniques for effective revision and editing.  \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill levels\, 18+. This course does not require fluency in more than one language\, but multilingual students are highly encouraged to register. \nIn this course\, students will: \n\n\n\nExplore variations of language \nLearn techniques for applying translanguaging to your own work\nGenerate new poems and receive feedback for revision\n\n\n\n\nOctavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collection\, If I Go Missing\, the founder and director of the literature & arts festival\, VersoFrontera\, publisher of Alabrava Press\, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. His new poetry collection\, The Book of Wounded Sparrows\, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in fall 2024. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. \n\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/weaving-across-languages/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230922
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SUMMARY:The Big Give 2023
DESCRIPTION:Big Give 2023 will return for our 10th anniversary of fundraising success on Wednesday\, September 20 at 6 PM thru Thursday\, September 21\, at 6 PM.\nDonate\n\n\n\nThis year\, all donations from The Big Give are in support of the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund! Gemini Ink established the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund for emerging writers in honor of esteemed journalist Cary Clack\, a beloved member of the Gemini Ink board. Cary Clack was born and raised in San Antonio. Cary Clack is a journalist and editorial board member with the San Antonio Express-News where he was the first Black metro desk journalist. He has covered local and national news\, events\, and social issues for three decades. He is the author of Clowns and Rats Scare Me and More Finish Lines to Cross. In 2017\, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. \n$5\,000 in scholarships will help 40 San Antonians bring their stories to life by allowing them to take our Public Writing Classes for free\, and with your support\, we can make this happen! Plus\, incredible news: This year\, we have a $2\,500 match from Nancy T. Shivers\, doubling the impact of your donations. Help us reach our $5\,000 goal and support the Gemini Ink Cary Clack Scholarship Fund\, enabling emerging writers in our city to bring their stories to life. \nGemini Ink’s mission is to teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life. As San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center\, we provide a supportive home for readers and writers of all levels through our online and in-person workshops and literary community. We believe everyone has a story and writing that story is powerful. Our strategic vision is to teach 12\,000 people how to bring their stories to life by 2024. \nAnyone can apply to the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund. Learn more about our scholarships at https://geminiink.org/scholarships. \n\n\n\n\n\nMatches\n\n\n\n\n\nNancy T. Shivers\n\nThis year\, Gemini Ink has the opportunity to make our Big Give donations go twice as far with $2\,500 match from Nancy T. Shivers in support of the Cary Clack Scholarship Fund.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-give/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230920T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Thomas H. McNeely
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nRSVP to join us for our Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink \nWednesday\, September 20th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Thomas H. McNeely’s story collection\, Pictures of the Shark. Stephanie Reents is the moderator.\n\n\n\n2023 Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction\n2023 Houston Chronicle Notable Book\n2023 Massachusetts Book Award Must-Read\n\n\n\n\n\n“An emotionally taut and often haunting collection.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“[An] always compelling novel in short stories.”\n—Foreword Reviews \n“[A] powerful family portrait … heartbreaking authenticity.”\n—Booklist \n“A tightly written and often emotionally gripping collection.”\n—Lone Star Literary Life \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sudden snowfall in Houston reveals family secrets. A trip to Universal Studios to snap a picture of the shark from Jaws becomes a battle of wills between father and son. A midnight séance and the ghost of Janis Joplin conjure the mysteries of sex. A young boy’s pilgrimage to see Elvis Presley becomes a moment of transformation. A young woman discovers the responsibilities of talent and freedom. \n\nPictures of the Shark\, by award-winning Houston writer Thomas H. McNeely\, moves from its protagonist Buddy Turner’s surreal world of childhood into the wider arenas of sex\, addiction\, art\, and ambition. Appearing in the country’s finest literary journals\, including Ploughshares\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, Epoch\, and Crazyhorse\, shortlisted for the O. Henry Award\, Best American Short Stories\, and Pushcart Prize collections\, the stories in Pictures of the Shark are gems that refract their characters’ complex relationships.\n\n\nAn East Side Houston native\, THOMAS H. McNEELY has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic\, Texas Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and many other magazines and anthologies\, including Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books’ Best of the South. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award anthologies. He has received National Endowment for the Arts\, Wallace Stegner\, and MacDowell Colony fellowships for his fiction. His first book\, Ghost Horse\, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College\, Boston. \n\nStephanie Reents received a BA from Amherst College\, a second BA from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and an MFA from University of Arizona. She is the author of The Kissing List\, a collection of connected stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review\, and I Meant to Kill Ye\, a bibliomemoir that is an account of her journey into the strange voice at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. She has twice been awarded an O. Henry prize for her short fiction. Her novel I Loved to Run is under contract at Penguin Random House.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-thomas-h-mcneely/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230921T200000
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SUMMARY:Luminescence and Grit: An Evening with Gemini Ink Teaching Artists\, followed by a Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, September 21st\, for a night of poetry\, prose\, and performance as we celebrate the personal artistry of our Gemini Ink Partner Class teaching artists. Every day these instructors bring their passion for the writing arts to community spaces and inspire students of all ages. Tonight we hear their stories! \nOur featured writers will include theater artist and playwright Marisela Barrera\, accomplished poet and educator Jim LaVilla-Havelin\, award-winning fiction writer Desiree Kannel\, and local poet and member of the Wyrdd Writers collective Annie Snider. \nFollowing the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 3-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/luminescence-and-grit-reading/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230921T203000
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SUMMARY:In the Age of Social Media: A Literary Video Lab with Joyous Windrider Jimenez
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, Sep 21\, 28 & Oct 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Joyous Windrider Jimenez\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \n  \nIn the age of TikTok\, Instagram reels\, and YouTube shorts\, how can you present your writing in a way that’s on trend and easily consumable? Would you like to use your digital platform to showcase your work in a new way and expand your audience?  \nIn this 6-week course\, we will use simple\, open-genre writing prompts to generate short poems and/or impactful prose. We will polish our short pieces and explore gathering images that will visually accentuate our words. We will then create short literary videos that include an audio recording of the work\, captions\, and either moving or still images. Our entire project will be built and edited using a FREE video editing app available for phones and laptops! \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill levels\, 18+. Students are welcome to bring in previously written work or images they want to transform. \nIn this course\, students will leave with: \n\nAt least one drafted 1-minute poetry/prose video.\nSeveral short written pieces that can be used for future videos.\nTools and knowledge to continue the Literary Video process independently.\nAn additional way to connect audiences to your writing that isn’t publication or a public reading.\n\nJoyous Windrider Jiménez is an improv & performance poet\, teatrista\, mixed-media visual artist and video creator who blends performance and visual elements. During the pandemic\, she directed and edited a video adaptation of an original operetta for the Jump-Start Performance Co’s INKubator series\, and had her time-lapse video poem Quarantine is a Dragon screened at the Roxie Theater’s 2020 virtual summer film festival\, Mixtape-In-Place. She also moved into video lessons for children in quarantine for the San Antonio Museum of Art\, Gemini Ink\, and SAISD. In 2022 and 2023 her video poetry was streamed for Urban 15’s annual global poetry streaming event\, MegaCorazon. \n\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/in-the-age-of-social-media-a-literary-video-lab/
LOCATION:TX
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230930T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230930T140000
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SUMMARY:Cosmic Memory Map with Anel I. Flores
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Sep 30\, from 10am-2pm CST (with 1-hour lunch)\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Anel I. Flores\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \n  \nWelcome to the Cosmic Memory Map Workshop\, a transformative journey into the depths of your “autohisteorías\,” Led by Xicane\, Queer\, Trans author and artist Anel I. Flores. We invite you to embark on a day of self-discovery\, empowerment\, and creative expression collectively. \nIn this immersive workshop\, we will explore the intersection of memory and the cosmos\, delving into the cosmic tapestry that shapes our individual narratives. Drawing inspiration from real-life experiences\, we will learn techniques to extract the essence of our stories\, weaving them into vibrant tapestries of imagination and emotion. \nThrough guided writing exercises\, group discussions\, and reflective meditations\, we will navigate the cosmic landscape of our memories\, unearthing hidden gems and untold tales. Together\, we will celebrate the power of diverse voices\, honoring the richness of our cultural heritage and the complexities of our identities. \nNo matter your writing background or level of experience\, this workshop is a safe and inclusive space for all two-spirit\, trans\, queer\, LGBTQIA+ individuals.   \nIn this workshop\, participants will: \n\nLeave with a fresh perspective on memory\nGenerate at least 20 new story ideas\nDraft the beginnings of 1 to 2 new stories\nConnect with like-minded writers\n\n\nAnel I. Flores is a trans-\, queer Latina/x writer\, artist\, activist\, entrepreneur\, and coach\, whose extensive body of work captures the essence of LGBTQIA+ experiences across professional and community spaces. Their areas of expertise encompass various themes such as Latina/x literature\, sexuality\, gender\, race/border/diaspora\, spirituality\, self-discovery\, and radical love.  \nThey hold an MFA in Creative Writing\, having penned notable works like the chapbook La Fea and Lambda literary award-nominated book\, Empanada: A Lesbiana Story en Probaditas. Their upcoming novel\, Cortinas de Lluvia\, set to be released in 2024\, along with Empanada’s 2nd Ed.\, doubled with its Spanish translation. Anel’s literary contributions can be found in esteemed publications such as Switchgrass Review\, Camino Real\, the Fifth Wednesday Journal\, RiverSEdge\, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche\, Rooted: Queer Women of Color Anthology\, and others. Furthermore\, Flores is the founder of LezRideSA\, Queer Voices Speak Out\, and La Otra Taller Nepantla Residency. 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/cosmic-memory-map-with-anel-i-flores/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:Memory & Image: A Micro Memoir Workshop with Poet Joni Wallace
DESCRIPTION:Mondays Oct 2\, 9\, 16 & 23\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Joni Wallace\nNonmember: $150; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nSmall\, disconnected\, and incomplete–this is how personal memories often come to us. But how do we take these moments and turn them into something meaningful? In micro memoir\, a nonfiction piece is told in 200 words or less and is a perfect way to capture these tiny stories.  \nIn this generative four-week class\, we’ll explore micro memoir and how adding a visual component can add depth to personal stories. Beth Ann Fennelly\, Bianca Stone\, Karen Brennan\, and Octavio Quintanilla are just some writers whose work we will study. After discussing these works\, we will delve into our own memories\, learn to identify powerful moments and explore them through micro memoir and simple visual art exercises. \nThe final class project will be a short\, linked series of personal stories with visual elements. Students are encouraged to bring and use any art supplies they have around the house. \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill level\, 18+.  \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nA short series of micro-memoir accompanied by visual elements\nNew critical reading techniques\nResources for submitting written work\n\n\nJoni Wallace is the author of three books of poetry and a chapbook: LANDSCAPE WITH MISSING RIVER\, Barrow Street Press\, 2023; Kingdom Come Radio Show\, Barrow Street Press\, 2016; To the Lighthouse Award; Blinking Ephemeral Valentine\, Four Way Books\, 2011\, winner of the Levis Prize (selected by Mary Jo Bang); Redshift (chapbook)(Kore Press\, 2001). Her work has been featured by the Poetry Society of America and appears in journals such as Boston Review\, Conduit\, Connotations Press\, Gulf Coast\, and more. She explores micro memoir through her poetry\, and her sound and video work appears on textsound.org and in The Drunken Boat.  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/memory-image-a-micro-memoir-workshop/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
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