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SUMMARY:The Edge of the Sea is a Strange and Beautiful Place: Hybrid Poetry & Prose Experiments with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 13\, 2024 10:00am-1:00pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Aimee Nezhukumatathil\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nBuilding upon writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson’s famous maritime observation\, we will investigate and interrogate the “strange and beautiful place” of genre-blurring work—work that melds elements of creative non-fiction and poetry.  \nIn this one-session\, cross-genre workshop\, participants will focus on generating new work that builds upon Audre Lorde’s idea that “the sharing of joy…forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them\, and lessens the threat of their difference.” We will spend our time generating work that sings and celebrates the various big and small delights of this earth. We will also learn several craft practices to help keep us generating new work long after returning home.  \nCome prepared to roll up your sleeves and dig in! We’ll have plenty of time for in-class craft analysis\, discussion\, and writing prompts galore that will send you home with several solid drafts of new work. Ideal for writers at any level of experience looking for a vibrant shake-up to their writing practices long after the workshop is over. \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nAn understanding of how to blur genres effectively in writing\nSeveral drafts of new pieces\nCraft tips for continuing to write independently\n\n\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays\, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES\, WHALE SHARKS\, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS. She also wrote four previous poetry collections including OCEANIC. Her most recent chapbook is LACE & PYRITE\, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Pushcart Prize\, a Mississippi Arts Council grant\, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She is poetry editor for SIERRA magazine\, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program and her forthcoming book of food essays is called BITE BY BITE (Ecco\, May 2024).  \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/the-edge-of-the-sea/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240417T183000
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-04-17/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240420T143000
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SUMMARY:From Description to Discovery: Personal Essays on Art with Jehanne Dubrow
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 20\, 10am-2:30pm CST (with 30 min lunch)\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Jehanne Dubrow\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \nClass Cancelled.\nEkphrasis teaches us that in standing back to study a work of fine art\, we can find a way to step back and examine ourselves as if we are the art. For many writers\, ekphrasis is a literary device that provides a visual springboard for unlocking stories you didn’t even know were inside of you. \nIn this one-day course\, participants will read examples of ekphrastic writing from across genres and go through the process of creating an ekphrastic essay. They’ll learn how to write about art using the five senses and concrete\, specific details and how to research the history of an art piece. Participants will then weave their description\, research\, and a personal experience together to generate an ekphrastic personal essay. \nStudents should come to class with an image of a piece of art that has personal meaning to them. This course is open to writers of all genres and skill level\, 18+.  \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nA first draft of an essay that engages with a work of art\nAn understanding of how ekphrasis can be used to break through writer’s block\nConcrete strategies for blending research with personal stories\n\n\nJehanne Dubrow is the author of nine poetry collections and three books of creative nonfiction\, including most recently Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity (University of New Mexico Press\, 2023)\, and Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press\, 2022). Her next book of poems\, Civilians\, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2025. Her writing has appeared in New England Review\, POETRY\,  and The Southern Review\, among others. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/from-description-to-discovery/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240424T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink \nWednesday\, April 24th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Poet Cyrus Cassells and his collection\, Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?\nABOUT IS THERE ROOM FOR ANOTHER HORSE ON YOUR HORSE RANCH?\n \n\nRSVP\nCyrus Cassells has perfected a poetics of merciful vitality and tenderness\, celebrating eros — in his daring and prolific representation of lust\, yes\, but more broadly in his understanding of the erotic as an affirmation and preservation of life — through time and space. Beginning his latest collection with the piece “You Be the Dancer\,” he bids us return to sacred sites of nostalgia\, insisting on it “whether we’re feeling frisky\, / Empty-handed\, / Or still beguiled by inchoate dreams–.” Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? is the apotheosis of Cassells’s work to elevate the mundane and the bodily to the exalted\, his vigorous lyrics a routine ecstasy. Though our senses lay us bare to suffering\, they also create the possibilities for pleasure and connection\, the basis of — and rewards for — humanity. “My Only Bible\,” Cassells pledges\, “is this blood-red joy / Of breathing beside you\,” “The gospel of bougainvillea / At your boyhood gate” which perfumes “the soul’s endless\, luxuriant / Coming and becoming…” Gorgeous and wry in its portrayal of transformational romance and queer selfhood\, Cassells’s ninth book of poetry reads as an anthology of love letters to people and places across the world. Cassells revises an old premise: is it better to have loved than lost\, or is that love\, once bestowed\, is never lost? A champion of the flight real intimacy requires of us\, Cassells addresses a beloved\, “You’ve just died in my arms / But suddenly it seems we’re eternal\,” the joie de vivre and bravery of his perseverance made immortal through the poem’s titular declaration — “I Believe Icarus Was not Failing as He Fell.” If in these pages you see the crash\, the poet seems to say\, remember the flying\, too\, “the giddy Argonauts we were.” \nABOUT CYRUS CASSELLS \nCyrus Cassells was the 2021 Poet Laureate of Texas. Among his honors: a 2023 Civitella-Ranieri Foundation fellowship; a 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate fellowship to administer his statewide Juneteenth poetry project; a 2019 Guggenheim fellowship; the National Poetry Series; a Lambda Literary Award; two NEA grants; a Pushcart Prize; and the William Carlos Williams Award. His 2018 volume\, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo\, was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award\, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas\, translated from the Catalan\, was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters’ Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book of 2018 and 2019. To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu\, combining translations\, poetry\, and memoir in homage to Catalan Spain’s most revered 20th century writer\, was published in 2023. Cassells was nominated for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for his film and television reviews in The Washington Spectator. He teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University\, where he received a 2021 Presidential Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities and was named a 2023 University Distinguished Professor. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR \n\n\nD E Zuccone is the author of a volume of poetry\, Vanishes\, with 3ATaos Press. He is currently completing No Provenance//Art-o-mata\, a manuscript of semi-ekphrastic poems surrounding works of art that don’t precisely exist. He has been a poetry reader in Houston\, Taos\, Los Angeles\, and a frequent\, grateful guest of Archway Gallery. He has published poetry in Ekphrastic Review\, Borderlands\, Water Stone\, International Review of Poetry\, Southern Indiana Review\, Schuylkill Review\, Hurricane Review\, Big River\, Apalachee Review\, Deep Water Literary Review\, & Garden Box. His poetry and fiction have been in anthologies from Round Top\, Taos Artists\, Words & Art\, Equinox\, Mutabilis Press\, and Big Poetry Review. He is an MFA graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently has an interview podcast\, Amicus Briefs for Public Poetry. Visit dezuccone.com.\n\n\nVisit the Big Texas Author Talk page.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-cyrus-cassells/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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:20240429T183000
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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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2024-04-29/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240504T160000
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SUMMARY:First Page Fiction Bootcamp with Chaitali Sen
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 4\, 10am-4pm CST (with 30-minute lunch); Hybrid (students can take this class online or in-person at Gemini Ink)\nInstructor: Chaitali Sen\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \nClass Canceled. \nA formidable first page of fiction grabs the reader\, sets the tone for what’s to come\, and captures the essence of the entire work. But how do we create an opening that keeps the reader turning the page? \nIn this one-day workshop\, we will study and discuss various examples of compelling first pages to see what works; we will review craft elements such as character\, setting\, point-of-view\, and narrative voice; and we will write and examine our own first pages in a safe\, supportive environment.  \nThis course is open to fiction writers of all skill levels\, 18+. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nAn understanding of what makes for a strong first page\nTechniques for writing strong openings\nA strong first page of fiction\n\n\nChaitali Sen is the author of the novel The Pathless Sky (Europa Editions 2015) and the story collection A New Race of Men from Heaven (Sarabande Books 2023)\, chosen by Danielle Evans as the winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories and essays have been published by American Short Fiction\, Boulevard\, Catapult\, Colorado Review\, Ecotone\, Electric Literature\, LitHub\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, New England Review\, Shenandoah\, and many other publications. Born in India and raised in New York and Pennsylvania\, she currently lives in Austin\, Texas. \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/first-page-fiction-bootcamp/
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:20240510T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240510T200000
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SUMMARY:From Madness to Heaven: An Evening with Gemini Wahhaj and Chaitali Sen\, followed by a Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Gemini Wahhaj and Chaitali Sen\nJoin Gemini Ink on Friday\, May 10th\, for a night of prose and literary celebration as we partner with our friends at Poetic Republic Cafe to create an inviting space for the writing community to share words\, wine\, and wisdom\, with a little latte or espresso on the side. \nLet’s honor Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the compelling fiction of Gemini Wahhaj and Chaitali Sen\, who capture the human experience through the lens of immigration and political unrest and do so with power and elegance. Following 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. \n\nGemini Wahhaj is the author of the novel The Children of this Madness (7.13 Books\, Fall 2023) and the short-story collection Katy Family (Jackleg Press\, Spring 2025). \nChaitali Sen is the author of the novel The Pathless Sky (Europa Editions 2015) and the story collection A New Race of Men from Heaven (Sarabande Books 2023)\, chosen by Danielle Evans as the winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories and essays have been published by American Short Fiction\, Boulevard\, Catapult\, Colorado Review\, Ecotone\, Electric Literature\, LitHub\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, New England Review\, Shenandoah\, and many other publications. Born in India and raised in New York and Pennsylvania\, she currently lives in Austin\, Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/from-madness-to-heaven/
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:20240511T120000
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SUMMARY:Wellness for Writers with Jen Knox
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 11 & 18\, 10am-12pm; via Zoom\nInstructor: Jen Knox\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE.\nClass cancelled (will be rescheduled)\nBetween writer’s block\, rejection letters\, and tough critiques\, the writing process can be an emotionally taxing experience. It’s easy for a writer to get discouraged. Many even abandon their practice completely. How do we support ourselves so we keep our creative engines burning\, tell the truth without injuring ourselves\, and manage the ups and downs of the writing life? \nIn this two-session workshop\, we will combine writing and wellness practices to help writers develop a more mindful approach to their work. We’ll use meditation to tap creativity\, explore the connection between self-compassion and craft\, and look at how to mine raw personal material in a safe but effective way. By the end of this workshop\, we’ll put these techniques into practice in order to write with momentum and heart\, then revise with craft and focus. \nThis course is open to writers of all genres\, backgrounds\, and skill level\, 18+ who write on a regular basis.  \nWhat you can expect in this workshop:  \n\nA nurturing and fun space to explore your deepest stories.\nWellness techniques for managing the ups and downs of the writing life and writing through and about difficult times.\nPractice using these tools to generate authentic raw material to create a piece of work after the workshop.\nPiece of authentic work.\n\n\nJen Knox teaches at Ohio State University and is the founder of Unleash Creatives. She combines her love of creativity with personal development and leadership in workshops she hosts around the world. Jen’s debut novel\, We Arrive Uninvited\, won the Steel Toe Books Award\, and her collection\, The Glass City\, won the Press Americana Prize. Jen’s short writing appears in over a hundred journals and magazines\, including McSweeney’s Internet Quarterly and The Saturday Evening Post. 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/wellness-for-writers-with-jen-knox/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240515T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240515T203000
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-05-15/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240515T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Glenn Blake
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink\nWednesday\, May 15th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Glenn Blake\, with moderator Cliff Hudder\, discussing The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories\nRSVP\nAbout The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories\n\n\nThe most complete collection of Glenn Blake’s luminous short fiction published to date.  “I was born in a land of bayous\, raised between rivers\,” Glenn Blake writes. “There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters\, and as you drive across\, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay.”  These fourteen stories are set in the swamps\, bayous\, and sloughs of Southeast Texas\, a region that is subsiding—sinking inches every year. The characters who inhabit Blake’s haunting landscape—awash in their own worlds\, adrift in their own lives—struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides. \nABOUT GLENN BLAKE \nGlenn Blake has taught in the English Department at Rice University\, the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston\, and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. He is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Tyler.  He is the author of Drowned Moon\, Return Fire\, and The Old and the Lost. His novel\, Degüello\, is due in December. He has edited Gulf Coast\, The Hopkins Review\, and Boulevard. He is now serving as the Director of the University of Texas Press at Tyler. In 2000\, he was elected Chair of PEN Houston. In 2020\, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. \nABOUT CLIFF HUDDER \nCliff Hudder received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Houston in 1995\, and a PhD in American Literature from Texas A&M University in 2018. He has been an archaeological laborer\, a film and video editor\, a photographer\, an air compressor mechanic\, an electrical lineman\, and an educator. In addition to articles on regional and American literature\, his short stories have appeared in several journals\, including Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Missouri Review. His work has received the Barthelme and Michener Awards\, the Peden Prize\, the Short Story Award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, and the Ruth Vande Kieft Prize from the Eudora Welty Society. His novella\, Splinterville\, won the 2007 Texas Review Fiction Award\, and his novel\, Pretty Enough for You\, was named a top-10 Texas favorite for 2015 by the Lone Star Literary Life website. His third book\, Sallowsfield\, will be released in November by Texas Review Press. He serves as the chair of Psychology and Sociology at Lone Star College-Montgomery in Conroe\, Texas. In 2017\, Cliff was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-glenn-blake/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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:20240527T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240527T203000
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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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2024-05-27/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240604T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240604T203000
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SUMMARY:No More Excuses: Submission Bootcamp with Lyzette Wanzer
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, June 4\, 11\, 18\, 25  & July 2\, 9\, 2024 from 6:30-8:30pm cst via Zoom\nInstructor: Lyzette Wanzer\nNonmember: $155; Member: $135; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full\nAre you on the verge of submitting your writing for publication\, but are you too nervous or afraid to follow through? Have you submitted your work\, just for it to end up in the rejection pile? Or does submitting your work keep falling to the bottom of your to-do list? \nIn this workshop\, you’ll learn how to plan a submission strategy\, research publishing markets\, and identify the publications most aligned with your work. We will also review proper submission etiquette and protocols plus suggestions for avoiding pitfalls that mark you as an amateur before editors even read your submission. \nStudents will be strongly encouraged to actively submit short stories\, articles\, poems\, essays\, novel excerpts\, and/or creative nonfiction pieces for publication while enrolled in the workshop. \nThis course is for writers of all levels—from those who are ready to learn about the submission process to those who are in the submission trenches. \nStudents will leave this class with:  \n\nAn understanding of how the submission and publication process works\nBest practices for organizing and tracking submissions\nStrategies for getting your work accepted\n\nRead Lyzette’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\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 of 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/submission-bootcamp/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240605T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240605T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
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SUMMARY:Delving into Latin America: Inspiration from International Poets with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, June 5\, 12\, 19 & 26\, 2024\, from 6:30-8:30pm cst via Zoom\nInstructor: Veronica Golos\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full \nIn a time of worldwide strife and disconnection\, poetry reacquaints us with humanity in a way that transcends borders\, time zones\, and languages. Join master poetry teacher Veronica Golos on an international poetry tour. First stop: Latin America! \nIn this four-week generative poetry workshop we will explore four international poets: Conceiҫão Evaristo (Brazil)\, Coral Bracho (Mexico)\, Pablo Neruda (Chile) and Juan Gelman (Argentina). Each week we will read deeply\, explore each poet’s craft tools\, and apply these techniques to our own work. A packet with poems will be sent to participants\, along with suggestions for developing your own work. \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nStudy and analyze the work of 4 contemporary poets\nWrite poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme\nReceive on-the-spot feedback for written work \n\n\nVeronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL\, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize in 2019; Rootwork\, winner of the 2016 Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry; Vocabulary of Silence\, a 2011 New Mexico Book Award winner that was translated into Arabic\, Spanish and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep\, a Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize winner. She teaches poetry for Hugo House\, Gemini Ink\, and SOMOS. She reviews poetry books for Tupelo Press and works as a manuscript editor. She lives in Taos\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, David Pérez.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/delving-into-latin-america/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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:20240619T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240619T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T181538Z
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-06-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240619T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240619T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20240422T182156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T185917Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Alex Temblador
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 19th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Alex Temblador\, moderated Daniel Peña\nRSVP\nAbout Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers \nA practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own.\n\nDo you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than your own? It’s not a subject that’s generally taught in creative writing programs\, and there are so few craft books and online resources on the subject. Even if you can take a seminar\, class\, or workshop\, there’s nothing like having an easy-to-understand book on hand to provide guidance and insight every time you craft characters with historically marginalized identities.\n\n\nIn Writing an Identity Not Your Own\, award-winning author Alex Temblador discusses one of the most contentious topics in creative writing: crafting a character whose identity is historically marginalized. What is “identity\,” and how do unconscious biases and bias blocks impact and influence what we write? What is intersectionality? You’ll learn about identity terms\, stereotypes\, and tropes\, and receive genre-specific advice related to various identities to consider when writing different races and ethnicities\, sexual and romantic orientations\, gender identities\, disabilities\, nationalities\, and more. Through writing strategies\, exercises\, and literary excerpts\, writers will gain a clearer understanding on how misrepresentations and harmful portrayals can appear in storylines\, dialogue\, and characterization. Alex will guide writers from the brainstorming phase through the editing process so they can gain a full understanding of the complexities of writing other identities and why it’s important to get them right.\n\n\n\n\nAlex Temblador is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers\, Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Her work has appeared in PALABRITAS\, D Magazine\, and Colorado Review\, among others. Alex is the creator and moderator of LitTalk at Whose Books and the Executive Director of Write Here DFW\, the Dallas-Fort Worth literary calendar. In addition to teaching creative writing classes\, she is an award-winning travel\, arts\, and culture journalist whose work has appeared in Outside\, National Geographic\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Texas Monthly\, among others.\n\n\n\nDaniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Associate Professor at the University of North Texas where he teaches in the PhD Program in Creative Writing.  Formerly\, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City where he worked as a 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.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-with-alex-temblador/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240622T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240622T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20240422T203923Z
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SUMMARY:The Poet Speaks with Amanda Eke
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 22\, 2024 10am-1pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Amanda Eke\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \n  \nRhythm\, dynamic words\, dramatic flow–these are some of the core elements of spoken word poems. But what if you infuse this type of poetry with aspects of storytelling and other oral traditions? This cross-genre approach to writing and performance can open us up to a whole new art form. \nThe goal of this one-day workshop is to engage in a unique combination of personal story and poetry. We will start by learning about Nigerian and Igbo oral storytelling traditions of rhyme and verse. Then we’ll fuse this storytelling with the contemporary art of spoken word to create our own poems. Theater and choral reading techniques will also be covered to help students prepare poems for stage performance. \nThis course is open to writers of all skill levels\, 18+. \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nNew strategies for incorporating storytelling and other oral traditions into crafting spoken word pieces\nExperimentation with beats and rhymes\n1 drafted spoken word poem\n\nRead Amanda’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n\nAmanda Eke is an award-winning Nigerian American Artist\, Poet\, Filmmaker\, Educator and Scholar. A Fulbright and UN Award winner and author\, she uses both her love for writing and music to address socio-political issues\, and contemporary culture prevalent in society today. Amanda has lived and worked with young adults in Malta\, Nepal\, United States and Nigeria.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-poet-speaks-with-amanda-eke/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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:20240624T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240624T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20191105T141203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T145413Z
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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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2024-06-24/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240627T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240627T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20240422T182414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T165731Z
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SUMMARY:Letters to James Baldwin: A Pride Month Reading & Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, June 27th\, to wrap up Pride Month 2024 with a timely and intimate literary discussion around the life and work of James Baldwin.  \nWe will celebrate the genius of Baldwin\, a black\, queer writer and civil rights activist\, and create a space for other writers to draw inspiration from and interact with his work.  This event will feature authors Georgie Lee\, Aminah Decé\, and Aaron Deutsch\, who will each share a piece of work written in response to Baldwin’s concepts and ideas. Come join the community conversation. Following the program\, we will have a community open mic. Light refreshments will be served. \nPlease visit our social media pages during the month of June. We’re sharing writing prompts and quotes from James Baldwin that mayinspire you to write something new for the open mic! \n \nInstagram: @sa_geminiink\nFacebook: @GeminiInk\nTwitter: @GeminiInk   \n\nAminah Decé is a Teaching Artist from Mississippi. She was trained at the World Combat Academy\, Institute of Martial Science\, and maintains degrees in The Humanities\, Fine Arts & Art History/Criticism from UTSA. She began her artistic journey as a slam poet in Killeen\, Texas. Aminah discredits concepts of race and supremacy through her art and empowers the public to do the same through art education. \n  \nAaron Deutsch received his MFA in poetry with distinction from Texas State University\, intending to acquire a lexicon to answer the wild\, mystical questions the world around him seemed to be asking. That journey led him to become a senior program manager with the United States Department of Defense\, where he works to build regional security across South America and the Middle East alongside international partners. To establish and maintain effective communication\, he uses poetics and linguistics to build shared goals across cultures. He loves teaching creative writing classes\, working on that ever-elusive first book\, and spoiling his Boston Terrier\, Hamlet.  \nGeorgie Lee (he/they) is an award-winning and internationally published poet from South Texas. By day\, Georgie is the healthcare form designer for all Baptist Health System hospitals in the San Antonio area. By night\, Georgie is heavily involved in the local performing arts scene. From acting in community theater productions to playing the clarinet in symphonic bands\, Georgie hopes to inspire others to explore the power of recovery through creative activity. Their work is centered around self-love\, grief\, overcoming addiction\, and queerness as a celebration.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/letters-to-james-baldwin/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240703T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240703T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20240523T025047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240802T183149Z
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SUMMARY:MOSAIC Summer Workshop with Poet Mandy Lynn
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/summmer-workshop-with-poet-mandy-lynn/
LOCATION:Contemporary at Blue Star\, 116 Blue Star\, San Antonio\, Texas
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240708T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240708T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20240423T211831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240712T155005Z
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SUMMARY:Make Your YA Novel a Reality with David Bowles
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, July 8\, 15\, & 22\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: David Bowles\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nDo you aspire to become the next Jacqueline Woodson\, Suzanne Collins\, or Benjamin Saenz? From dystopian adventures to explorations of young romance to coming-of-age stories\, the demand for fiction for young adult readers is as strong as ever. But how do you take a YA novel from concept to reality? \nIn this three-part course\, award-winning author David Bowles will guide participants through the process of developing their ideas for a YA novel from a concept to a synopsis and first chapter. We will discuss stylistic elements when writing longform fiction for teens—prose novels\, novels-in-verse\, graphic novels. We will also learn how to prepare to pitch YA (young adult) projects to agents and/or editors. \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels who are interested or in the throes of writing YA. \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nInitial chapters and synopsis for a longform work of YA fiction\nA plan for completing and revising the manuscript\nA cover letter and pitch to begin shopping for an agent / publisher\n\nRead David’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n\nDavid Bowles is a Mexican American author and translator from south Texas\, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. He has written over three dozen award-winning titles\, most notably They Call Me Güero and My Two Border Towns. His work has also been published in multiple anthologies\, plus venues such as The New York Times\, Strange Horizons\, Apex Magazine\, School Library Journal\, Rattle\, Translation Review\, and the Journal of Children’s Literature. Additionally\, David has worked on several TV/film projects\, including Victor and Valentino (Cartoon Network)\, the Moctezuma & Cortés miniseries (Amazon/Amblin) and Monsters and Mysteries in America (Discovery). In 2017\, David was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. He now serves as its vice president. In 2019\, he co-founded the hashtag and activist movement #DignidadLiteraria\, which has negotiated greater Latinx representation in publishing. In 2021\, he helped launch Chispa\, the Latinx imprint of Scout Comics\, for which he serves as co-publisher. David’s literary representation is Taylor Martindale Kean and Stefanie Von Borstel of Full Circle Literary. His Hollywood representation is Sandra Ávila of Inclusion Management. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram: @DavidOBowles \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/make-your-ya-novel-a-reality-with-david-bowles/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240711T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240711T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20240530T194340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240701T185558Z
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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink Volunteer Summer Social
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in getting a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writing life? Interested in helping our community craft their stories? \nThursday\, July 11\, 2024 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink \nFree and Open to Existing and Prospective Volunteers \nJoin us for a fun and informal Volunteer Summer Social. We’ll share light summer refreshments\, fun literary games\, and learn about volunteer opportunities\, including general office duties\, event support\, social and assisting teaching artists in the classroom.  \nHelp us teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life! \n\nhttps://geminiink.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-Volunteer-Social-Video.mp4\nComplete this short volunteer survey for full details.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/volunteer-summer-social/
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:20240717T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240717T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T181538Z
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-07-17/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240717T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Ramona Reeves
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 17th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Ramona Reeves\, moderated Cassandra Lane\nRSVP\nAbout It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories\nWinner of the 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction\, Texas Institute of Letters\n\n\nHappiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl\, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes\, in-laws\, and coworkers\, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to reforge their lives\, a task easier said than done in Mobile\, Alabama\, which bears its own share of tainted history. Despite overwhelming challenges and the ever-looming specters of status\, race\, and class\, the characters in It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories strive for versions of the American dream through modern and often unconventional means. Told with humor and honesty\, these stories remind us not only about the fallibility of being human and the resistance of some to change but also about finding redemption in unlikely places. \nIn linked short stories taking place across time\, Reeves offers up two characters finding their own form of redemption. . . . Both humorous and deeply emotional\, this collection shines for its beautifully written characters.\n–Booklist \nThese surprising\, wonderfully funny stories glow with comic energy. The eleven pieces in It Falls Gently All Around serve as chapters in a deeply satisfying portrayal of characters facing the expiration dates on their old beliefs and their newly acquired convictions. Ramona Reeves has fully brought to life a cast of flawed\, breaking people with bravery and resilience to spare. The book is a triumph of wise and compassionate storytelling.\n–Kevin McIlvoy\, author of One Kind Favor \nIt Falls Gently All Around when a character believes ‘He could make out ghosts swimming in the darkness\, like another life he might have lived. . . .’ It is one of several instances in the book when a story suddenly coalesces\, and the reader is both surprised and moved\, and this particular example speaks to a clear ambition of the author—to capture the elusive human moments that we all experience but for which we need an artist to genuinely see. This is a splendid book by an important new writer.\n–Robert Boswell\, author of Mystery Ride\, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards\, and Tumbledown \n\n\nRamona Reeves won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2022 for her collection\,It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories. She was a recent fellow at the San Ysidro Writers Residency and a 2024 judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Post Road\, The Southampton Review\, Pembroke\, New South\, Bayou Magazine\, Texas Highways and others. She teaches a course for writers working on their first manuscripts and will be teaching at the Desert Nights\, Rising Stars Writers Conference later this year. She and her wife currently call Austin home. \n\n\n\n\nCassandra Lane is winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and author of We Are Bridges (Feminist Press)\, which NPR called “a stunning contribution to what must become our collective memory.” Lane received her MFA from Antioch University LA. She formerly worked as a newspaper reporter\, high school English and journalism teacher\, college admissions advisor\, senior writer\, and community relations manager for the Dodgers. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times’s “Conception” series\, the L.A. Times\, the Times-Picayune\, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and multiple anthologies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of L.A. Parent magazine.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-ramona-reeves/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240718T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240718T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
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SUMMARY:Discover New Entry Points into Your Writing: An Open Genre Workshop with National Book Award Finalist Reginald Gibbons
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, July 18\, 25\, & Aug 1\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, on Zoom (This class was rescheduled from Thur\, July 11\, 18 & 25)\nInstructor: Reginald Gibbons\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full. To add your name to the waitlist\, please email Josh Cantú at joshua@geminiink.org. \nAre you struggling to begin a creative piece or has the revision process left you lost on how to move forward? Paying attention to our inner and outer worlds and connecting the two using our intuition as a guide can help us work through creative blocks. Using techniques based on the work of author and psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas\, we will tune into objects in the outside world to help us dig into deeper parts of ourselves\, so we can get unstuck and add depth to our writing. \nIn this three-part\, open-genre workshop\, we will learn how to use not only writerly craft from a variety of genres\, including poetry\, fiction\, and creative nonfiction but also our landscape of feeling and thought\, memory and experience to create a more deliberate artistic practice. We will examine the works of writers such as Amy Hempel\, Basil Bunting\, Patricia Smith\, Marga Minko\, Kimiko Hahn\, and others. Students will pick which writers resonate most for them and study how intuition and craft informs their work. \nIn the workshop\, everyone will draft new work as well as revise existing pieces\, using a process that brings together intuition and craft in unique ways. Participants will be able to carry this innovative practice into all their work. \nThis class is open to writers of all genres and skill levels. \nStudents will leave this class with:  \n\nAn understanding of the connection between intuition and craft \nTechniques for working through creative blocks\nA draft of new or revised creative work \n\n\nReginald Gibbons\, Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University\, is a poet\, fiction writer\, translator\, literary critic. His books of poems include Last Lake (University of Chicago Press)\, Creatures of a Day (LSU Press; Finalist for the National Book Award in poetry; see https://www.ronslate.com/on-creatures-of-a-day-poems-by-reginald-gibbons-lsu-press/)\, and Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories (University of Chicago Press). Three bilingual selections of his poems have been published: in  Spanish and English\, Desde una barca de papel (translated by Manuel Ulacia\, Victor Manuel Mendiola\, Jennifer Clement\, and Jordi Doce\, and edited by Jorde Doce\, 2010\, Littera Libros [Spain]); in Italian and English\, L’Abitino Blu (translated by Piera Mattei\, 2012\, gattomerlino/superstripes); and in French and English\, Je Pas Je (translated by Nathanael\, 2014\, e-book\, recoursaupoeme.com).
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/discover-new-entry-points/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240729T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240729T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
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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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2024-07-29/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240731T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240731T203000
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SUMMARY:Get Ready to Write Your Novel This November with Laura Castoro
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, July 31 – September 4\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid\nInstructor: Laura Castoro\nNonmember: $155; Member: $135; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \nHave you always dreamed of writing a novel\, but didn’t know how to get started? Have you thought about participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)\, but were too scared to actually do it? \nNational Novel Writing Month is this November! The goal of this annual writing challenge is to write a book of 50\,000 words or more in 30 days. Although November seems like a ways away\, there are things we can do to prepare for success now! \nIn this six-week novel writing prep course we will use National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) resources and more to do the pre-work to set ourselves up to draft a novel this (or any) November! We will explore tools and resources to help us create a dynamic storyline\, build pivotal characters\, bring the setting to life\, and draft an outline. We will also set achievable goals for getting the book project completed.  \nIf you are not ready to write a novel in 30 days\, no worries! This course will help you generate new ideas and lay the groundwork for tackling that novel at your own pace. \nWe will open a discussion forum on WetInk\, our online platform for creative writing classes\, during National Novel Writing Month. Students will be able to post goals\, updates\, words of encouragement\, and insights on their novel writing journey. Laura will check in with students 3 times via the Wet Ink Platform during National Novel Writing Month (November\, 2024) to answer questions\, respond to discussion\, and cheer writers on. \nOpen to fiction writers of all skill levels who are ready to take on the challenge of writing a novel. Students are encouraged to bring laptops and their favorite writing tools. \nStudents will leave this course with: \n\nThe setting\, characters\, plot\, and outline drafted\nA calendar-driven plan of action for bringing your novel to life\nResources and support for completing a 50\,000-word novel\n\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 Laura at www.ddayres.com
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/get-ready-to-write-your-novel/
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:20240806T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240806T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
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SUMMARY:Raising the Stakes: Fictionalizing Your Stories for the Stage with Amalia Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, August 6\, 13\, 20 & 27\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (in-person at Gemini Ink and online via Zoom)\nInstructor: Amalia Ortiz\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\n \n  \nEvery day all around us we encounter interesting characters\, compelling scenarios\, and memorable conversations. Whether it’s in line at the grocery store\, on the city bus\, or walking down the street\, the real world is full of potential stories–you just need to stop and listen. \nIn this four-week class\, we will observe the world around us and collect snippets of real-world dialogue. Students will review dramatic structure and use collected material to develop characters in fictionalized\, high-stakes situations through monologues and scenes. The class will culminate in a dramatic reading of works-in-progress. We will follow the reading with an introduction to Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process\, an affirming and interactive feedback strategy that will help a writer grow in their craft.  \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nTwo monologues and one scene drafted \nAn understanding of Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process\nCritical feedback to take your written work to the next level\n\nRead Amalia’s Writer’s Desk Q&A!\n\nAmalia Ortiz appeared on three seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO. She was awarded the 2020 American Book Award for Oral Literature from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Canción Cannibal Cabaret (Aztlan Libre Press\, 2019). NBC Latino listed her book\, Rant. Chant. Chisme. among “10 Great Latino Books of 2015.” She won an Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Grant\, a residency at the National Hispanic Cultural Center\, the 2015 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Discovery Prize\, and the 2018 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant to film videos for her latest book\, The Canción Cannibal Cabaret. Amalia received a BA in Theatre from UIW and an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is the Director of Theatre at SAY Sí\, a year-round afterschool arts program where she facilitates the creation of original theatre productions written by middle and high school students.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/raising-the-stakes/
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240810T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240810T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20240523T005424Z
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SUMMARY:World on Fire: Writing About Crisis and Hope in the Natural World with Sasha West
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 10\, 10am-2:30pm CST (includes a 30-minute lunch)\, in person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Sasha West\nNonmember: $130; Member: $110; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \nClass Postponed\nBurning forests. Drought. Melting ice caps. Islands of plastic waste. With mounting natural disasters\, our anxiety about the environment is increasing. So how do we process these feelings and use writing to spark conversation about this very pressing topic?  \nIn this one-day generative workshop\, we will use poetry as a self-reflective tool to explore the multitude of feelings we have about the current state of nature.  We can identify and voice how the climate crisis affects us while also exploring the idea that something better is possible.  \nIn this eco-poetry workshop\, we will practice paying attention\, seeing connections\, and embracing contradictions in nature. We will study poets writing about the environment in celebration\, mourning\, and resistance. These explorations will be used to fuel our imagination. Poems will be written in class and generative exercises will be provided so you can continue to reflect and write about your relationship to nature.  \nOpen to writers of all skill levels. \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nThe first draft of a poem\nGenerative exercise to fuel your writing after class\nResources for sharing eco-poetry\n\n\nSasha West is the author of Failure and I Bury the Body\, which was awarded the National Poetry Series\, a Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award\, and a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship. Her second book\, How to Abandon Ship\, was published in 2024 by Four Way Books. Her multimedia eco-arts exhibits with visual artist Hollis Hammonds have been exhibited at the Columbus College of Art and Design\, Texas A&M\, ArtPrize 2023 Michigan\, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University\, where she founded and runs the Environmental Humanities program.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writing-about-crisis/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20240815T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240815T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20240708T193246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T213427Z
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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink Teaching Artists &  Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss our FREE Teaching Artists Reading & Community Open Mic on Thursday! Want to share your work or just listen to some amazing performances? Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, August 15th\, for a night of poetry\, prose\, and performance as we celebrate the talent of our Gemini Ink Partner Class teaching artists. An open mic follows. Come early to sign up! ???? \nEnjoy a beverage and connect with fellow writers! Wine\, coffee\, and other refreshments will be available for purchase from Poetic Republic Cafe. We look forward to seeing you! \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teaching-artists-reading-open-mic/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240821T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240821T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T131533
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T181538Z
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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-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-08-21/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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