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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-04-15/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 12-1:30pm cst via Zoom \nFor ages 13-19 years old \nAre you a teen who enjoys writing in their free time? Or are you someone who’s never had the chance to write on their own? If so\, this Online Teen Writing Circle is for you!  \nIn this once-a-month writing circle\, teens will enjoy writing in a judgment free zone. We’ll break the ice with one another and perform various writing exercises. You are encouraged to share your work with your peers and get constructive feedback\, but it is not required. Our only goal is to keep you writing! \nThis course is open to teen writers of any skill level. \nParticipants will leave the writing circle with:  \n\nNew\, unique written work\nListening and sharing experience\nConstructive feedback to help improve their writing\n\nWant to learn more about our Teen Writing Circle? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions!\n \n\nDaniel Ramirez has been an educator for over 15 years. After studying History in grad school\, he tromped around the outdoors doing conservation with teenagers. Spending time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of incorporating creativity with learning. Encouraging youth to tap into their creative abilities convinced him to discover his own. Since then\, in addition to his original love of storytelling\, he’s found a penchant for calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he explores the crystalline waters of Central Texas in his free time. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-04-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260427T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260427T203000
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-04-27/
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/Chicago:20260428T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260428T203000
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SUMMARY:Poetry’s Cinematic Propositions with Elena Karina Byrne
DESCRIPTION:Explore parallels between poetry and film\n  \nTuesday(s)\, April 28 & May 5\, 12\, 19\, 26\, 6:30-8:30pm CT\, via Zoom\nNonmember: $250; Member: $215; Student/Educ/Mil: $175\n*EARN CPEs; TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \n \n  \nFilm has the power to evoke striking images\, capture history\, and transport us to alternate realities. Poetry does the same. But what happens when poets borrow elements from film? \nOver five-weeks\, we will explore the intersections between cinema and poetry\, and imagine the poet as director\, cinematographer\, actor\, screenwriter\, stage designer\, documentarian\, and editor–all at once. Through an eclectic mix of poems\, essays\, and screenplay excerpts\, we’ll uncover how poetry and film share the key elements of discovery\, the transformative tools of language and image\, and the uniting of the speaker’s inner and outer worlds. This class will strengthen your writing skills\, help you to see your work with new eyes\, and deepen your revision process. \nThis intermediate-level workshop is for poets 18+ \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following:\n\nAn understanding of how film elements can strengthen poetry\nStrategies for using cinematic elements in poetry\nFresh revision techniques \n\n \n\nFormer 12-year Regional Director of the Poetry Society of America\, Elena Karina Byrne worked as a Contributing Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books\, a final judge for PEN’s “Best of the West” award\, one of the final judges for the Kate and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards in Poetry from 2016-2018\, and one of three 2018-2019 Georgia Circuit visiting poets. Elena also served as a co-judge for the 2022 international Laurel Prize\, the annual award for the best collection of environmental poetry. \nElena Karina Byrne holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Antioch University. She has curated programs for the GRI at the J. Paul Getty Center\, MOCA\, the Craft Contemporary\, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center\, The Clark Library\, and USC’s Doheny Memorial Library\, among others. Currently\, she is a private manuscript editor\, freelance lecturer\, 29-year Programming Consultant and Poetry Stage Manager for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books\, as well as Poetry Programs Director for the historic Ruskin Art Club.  Elena Karina Byrne is a Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry recipient\, and author of five collections of poetry\, including If This Makes You Nervous (Omnidawn)\, No\, Don’t (What Books Press)\, Squander (Omnidawn)\, MASQUE (Tupelo Press)\, and The Flammable Bird (Zoo Press/Tupelo Press). Her poems\, reviews\, essays\, and interviews can be found in POETRY\, The Kenyon Review\, The Paris Review\, Poetry International\, Poetry Daily\, Ploughshares\, BOMB\, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day\, New American Writing\, Verse Daily\, LARB (LA Review of Books)\, APR (American Poetry Review)\, Plume Anthologies\, Oxford Review of Books\, Kyoto Journal\, TriQuarterly\, The Yale Review\, The Adroit Journal\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Braving the Body anthology\, Republic of Apples Democracy of Oranges: New Eco-Poetry from China and the United States\, Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies\, Poetry Goes to the Movies\, The Eloquent Poem:128 Contemporary Poems and Their Making\, and elsewhere. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetrys-cinematic-propositions/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260502T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260502T130000
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SUMMARY:Launch Your Substack with Jennifer Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Amplify your online presence and connect with your audience\n\nSaturday\, May 2\, 10am-1pm CT via Zoom\nNonmember: $75; Member: $65; Student: $53\n*EARN CPEs; TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \n \n  \nBlogs are out\, substacks are in! Learn to build your own and get your writing to your audience ASAP. \nIn this one day workshop you will learn how to use Substack\, a popular online writing platform\, to find your audience and amplify your voice. If you are looking to develop a marketing strategy for your long-term writing goals\, this class is for you. Participants will reflect on where they are as writers\, where they want to go\, and how they want to use a Substack to get there. We will examine other online platforms but focus on how to use Substack and its tools to build an audience\, maximize visibility\, and cultivate your own unique flavor. This course is designed for practicing writers 18+\, who want to connect with new readers. \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following:\n\nA deep dive into Substack\nShort-term and long-term writing goals\nAn assessment of your audience\nIncreased confidence in your authentic voice\n\n\nJennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen is a writer currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a creative nonfiction writer who writes about assimilation\, belonging\, and power. Her work has been supported by Tin House\, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops\, Macondo\, Vermont Studio Center\, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the Lambda Literary Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices\, where she received the Emerge Editorial Fellowship and edited Emerge\, the retreat’s anthology. \nHer work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, a “notable” selection in The Best American Essays 2024\, and has appeared in Longreads\, The Offing\, Foglifter\, the Ponder Review\, and New Rivers Press as the winner of the American Fiction Award. She writes humorist pieces in “Thursday Letters with Jen” via Substack. Along with writing\, Nguyen is currently the director of postsecondary success at the Stupski Foundation\, a private philanthropic foundation that will spend down its assets and sunset by 2029. Her writing and speaking are premised on how foundations should let go of power and control—in ego\, reporting\, evaluation\, and telling funded organizations what to do—and have appeared in Designing Tomorrow\, Break Fake Rules\, EdSource\, and The Center for Effective Philanthropy. In addition\, with the support of the Stupski Foundation\, she is the author the quarterly column\, “Philanthropy Confidential” – a project of candid and humorous answers to anonymously submitted questions from the philanthropic field. Her professional experiences inspired her book-length critique of the field\, Letter of Inquiry – a project selected to be a part of the 2025 Changemakers Authors Cohort\, which supports the development of books that could have an enduring narrative impact.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/launch-your-substack/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260513T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260513T200000
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the LitMinds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace.\nRegister\n\nThe “dazzling\, exhilarating” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from one of this century’s most groundbreaking writers \nPublished when David Foster Wallace was just twenty-four years old\, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny\, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine\, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990\, and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland\, Ohio. Lenore’s great-grandmother has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Her beau and boss\, Rick Vigorous\, is insanely jealous\, and her cockatiel\, Vlad the Impaler\, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psycho-babble\, Auden\, and the King James Bible. Ingenious and entertaining\, this debut from one of the most innovative writers of his generation brilliantly explores the paradoxes of language\, storytelling\, and reality. \n\n\nAbout the Author\n\nDavid Foster Wallace was an American author and professor who wrote novels\, essays\, and short stories. His work is known for its linguistic skill\, inventive structure\, and exploration of moral and existential questions. His 1996 novel Infinite Jest\, a complex\, sprawling dystopian tale\, is his best-known work. Wallace’s essays\, published in magazines like The Atlantic and Harper’s\, are also celebrated.  \nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-book-club-wallace/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260520T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260520T203000
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-05-20/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260525T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260525T203000
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-05-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260530T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260530T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 12-1:30pm cst via Zoom \nFor ages 13-19 years old \nAre you a teen who enjoys writing in their free time? Or are you someone who’s never had the chance to write on their own? If so\, this Online Teen Writing Circle is for you!  \nIn this once-a-month writing circle\, teens will enjoy writing in a judgment free zone. We’ll break the ice with one another and perform various writing exercises. You are encouraged to share your work with your peers and get constructive feedback\, but it is not required. Our only goal is to keep you writing! \nThis course is open to teen writers of any skill level. \nParticipants will leave the writing circle with:  \n\nNew\, unique written work\nListening and sharing experience\nConstructive feedback to help improve their writing\n\nWant to learn more about our Teen Writing Circle? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions!\n \n\nDaniel Ramirez has been an educator for over 15 years. After studying History in grad school\, he tromped around the outdoors doing conservation with teenagers. Spending time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of incorporating creativity with learning. Encouraging youth to tap into their creative abilities convinced him to discover his own. Since then\, in addition to his original love of storytelling\, he’s found a penchant for calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he explores the crystalline waters of Central Texas in his free time. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-05-30/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260603T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260603T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
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SUMMARY:Exploring Africa: Inspiration from International Poets with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wed\, Jun 3\, 10\, 17 & 24\n6:30-8:30pm CT\, Online via Zoom\nNonmember: $200; Member: $170; Student/Educ/Mil: $140 \nRegistration info coming soon. \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 for the final stop on our international poetry tour! \nIn this four-week generative poetry workshop\, we will read\, discuss deeply\, and draw our inspiration from foundational African poets Chris Abani (Nigeria)\, Kwame Dawes (Ghana)\, Tsitsi Jaji (Zimbabwe)\, and Agostinho Nato (Angola). We will explore each poet’s craft tools and apply these techniques to our work. Participants will receive a packet with poems and suggestions for developing their writing.  \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nStudents will leave this course with: \n\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/exploring-africa-inspiration-from-international-poets/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260606T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260606T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Stories with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Jun 6\, 13\, & 20\n10 am-12 pm CT\, Hybrid (online via Zoom and in-person at Gemini Ink)\nNonmember: $150; Member: $129; Student/Educ/Mil: $105 \nRegistration info coming soon. \nWhere do I belong? This question is central to the human experience. One way to explore it is by tracing our connections to our family lineage\, our communities\, and the living world around us.  \nIn this workshop\, we will use ancestry as a lens to excavate our sense of connectedness from within. We will imagine belonging as a series of concentric circles: starting with family\, widening to community\, and expanding outward to the Earth as a whole. Each session will focus on one of those circles. Through reflection\, discussion\, and generative writing exercises\, we will transform our discoveries into stories\, essays\, or poems that express this sense of connection. Readings will primarily feature voices from across the United States\, representing  various regions\, ethnicities\, and family histories–all of which will model how writers have grappled with the question of belonging.  \nThis workshop is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following: \n\nFamiliarity with American writers who have tapped into an ancestral current to examine and express their deeper sense of belonging\nOne piece of writing per class based on the theme of family\, community\, or Earth\nIdeally\, a deeper sense of how their self is connected to a greater whole\n\n\nDaniel Ramirez is a longtime educator and writer from San Antonio. He has published nature writing essays in Foliate Oak\, Twisted Vine\, and you are here journals and nature-based journalism with StateImpact Texas (KUT Austin) and Texas Public Radio. He also writes stories\, puppet shows\, and poetry; as a teaching artist\, he’s taught in multiple genres. He believes that the quest to develop one’s inner creativity parallels the quest to encounter one’s deeper\, truer self.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/rooted-in-stories/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260617T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260617T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T075945Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-06-17/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260618T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260618T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20260326T185053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T185053Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Crush: A Pride Month Literary Event 
DESCRIPTION:Location (TBD\, in-person) \nJoin Gemini Ink as we celebrate Pride Month 2026 with a lovestruck literary event! Poetry Crush invites generations of queer poets to read their own work and the works of their poetry crushes.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetry-crush/
CATEGORIES:Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260627T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260627T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20241125T170232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T170232Z
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 12-1:30pm cst via Zoom \nFor ages 13-19 years old \nAre you a teen who enjoys writing in their free time? Or are you someone who’s never had the chance to write on their own? If so\, this Online Teen Writing Circle is for you!  \nIn this once-a-month writing circle\, teens will enjoy writing in a judgment free zone. We’ll break the ice with one another and perform various writing exercises. You are encouraged to share your work with your peers and get constructive feedback\, but it is not required. Our only goal is to keep you writing! \nThis course is open to teen writers of any skill level. \nParticipants will leave the writing circle with:  \n\nNew\, unique written work\nListening and sharing experience\nConstructive feedback to help improve their writing\n\nWant to learn more about our Teen Writing Circle? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions!\n \n\nDaniel Ramirez has been an educator for over 15 years. After studying History in grad school\, he tromped around the outdoors doing conservation with teenagers. Spending time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of incorporating creativity with learning. Encouraging youth to tap into their creative abilities convinced him to discover his own. Since then\, in addition to his original love of storytelling\, he’s found a penchant for calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he explores the crystalline waters of Central Texas in his free time. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-06-27/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260629T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260629T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20191105T141203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T141203Z
UID:13647-1782757800-1782765000@geminiink.org
SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-06-29/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260707T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260707T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20260326T175145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T175837Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Voice Through Dialogue with Carmen Tafolla
DESCRIPTION:Literary Masters Lecture Series\nTue\, Jul 7 & 14\n6:30-8pm CT via Zoom\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Educ/Mil: $63 \nRegistration info coming soon. \nRhythm\, pacing\, vocabulary\, slang\, and tone all shape how someone speaks. Whether you’re looking to refine your novel-in-verse or craft more impactful dialogue in your poetry or prose\, mastering dialogue is a powerful way to create more vivid\, compelling storytelling.   \nAward-winning author of more than 40 books\, Dr. Carmen Tafolla presents a two-part Master Class focused on shaping characters’ voices\, so they reflect depth\, individuality\, and authenticity. In session one\, we will explore examples of compelling dialogue and review useful tools\, patterns\, and exercises that can be used long after the lecture ends. Participants should bring some of their writing to class and be prepared to apply the techniques from the first session to their work. In the second session they can expect to share and discuss their revisions.  \nThis lecture is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nIn this lecture students will gain: \n\nAn understanding of the elements of effective dialogue\nStrategies for mastering the art of dialogue writing\nIdeas on how dialogue can provide writers with insights into themselves and their characters\n\n\nDr Carmen Tafolla is a storyteller\, professor emeritus\, performance artist\, and award-winning author of more than 40 books and hundreds of poems and performance pieces. The 2015 State Poet Laureate of Texas\, and San Antonio’s first and inaugural City Poet Laureate\, she is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions\, including seven International Latino Book Awards; an Américas Award\, presented to her in 2010 at the Library of Congress; three Tomás Rivera Book Awards; the Charlotte Zolotow; the Art of Peace; Top Ten Books for Babies (by the Fred Rogers Corporation 2010)\, and has been recognized by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies for work which “gives voice to the peoples and cultures of this land.” \nHer latest book\, Warrior Girl\, received a starred review in Publishers’ Weekly\, and was a finalist for the Jane Addams Award. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/finding-voice-through-dialogue/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260708T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260708T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20260206T101830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T184647Z
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the LitMinds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden.\nRegister\n\nA house is a precious thing… \nIt is 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled\, buildings reconstructed\, and the war is truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home\, Isabel knows her life is as it should be—led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her brother Louis brings his graceless new girlfriend Eva\, leaving her at Isabel’s doorstep as a guest\, to stay for the season. \nEva is Isabel’s antithesis: she sleeps late\, walks loudly through the house\, and touches things she shouldn’t. In response\, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession\, and when things start disappearing around the house—a spoon\, a knife\, a bowl—Isabel’s suspicions begin to spiral. In the sweltering peak of summer\, Isabel’s paranoia gives way to infatuation\, leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known. The war might not be well and truly over after all\, and neither Eva—nor the house in which they live—are what they seem. \nMysterious\, sophisticated\, sensual\, and infused with intrigue\, atmosphere\, and sex\, The Safekeep is “a brave and thrilling debut about facing up to the truth of history\, and to one’s own desires” (The Guardian). \n\n\nAbout the Author\n\nYael van der Wouden is a writer and teacher. She currently lectures in creative writing and comparative literature in the Netherlands. Her essay on Dutch identity and Jewishness\, “On (Not) Reading Anne Frank”\, has received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2018. The Safekeep is her debut novel and was acquired in hotly-contested nine-way auctions in both the UK and the US. Rights have sold in a further twelve countries. \nVisit our LitMinds page to see what we’re reading next!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-book-club-van-der-wouden/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260711T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260711T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20260326T190144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T190659Z
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SUMMARY:Poets & Coffee with Alexandra van de Kamp
DESCRIPTION:Coffee. Poetry. Conversation. \nJoin Alexandra van de Kamp for an informal gathering focused on the poems and poets shaping today’s literary landscape. \nCome listen\, share\, and connect. \nYou’ll leave with new poems to read and prompts to keep writing. \n\n​​Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink\, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center. Her third book of poems\, Ricochet Script\, was published by Next Page Press in 2022. ​​Her previous full-length collections include: Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010). She has also published several chapbooks\, including A Liquid Bird Inside the Night (Red Glass Books 2015) and Dear Jean Seberg (2011)\, which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide\, such as The Cincinnati Review\, Connecticut Review\, The Texas Observer\, and Denver Quarterly.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poets-coffee-with-alexandra/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink
CATEGORIES:Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260711T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260711T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20260326T180422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T180552Z
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SUMMARY:Haunted Histories: The Masters of Latina Horror with Elizabeth Gonzalez James
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Jul 11\n10am-2pm CT\, In-person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Educ/Mil: $70 \nRegistration info coming soon. \nLatinas are writing some of the most gut-wrenching and spine-tingling horror on the market today. Their work sheds light on systemic abuse and other brutal aspects of Latin American history.  \nWhether it’s Silvia Moreno Garcia addressing the hideous legacy of Mexican mine operations in Mexican Gothic\, or Mariana Enriquez spinning a devilish tale of cruelty and imprisonment set against Argentina’s Dirty War in Our Share of Night\, these authors are using fiction to tell true stories of crime and corruption\, resistance and resilience in the face of unimaginable tragedy. \nIn this one-day workshop\, we will begin with an overview of what horror is and how it works. Then we’ll discuss several works by Latina authors\, paying close attention to how they blend fact and fantasy. We will examine how truth and storytelling often co-mingle in the Latin American literary tradition\, specifically how horror is used by marginalized voices to tell their truths. Finally\, we’ll use these approaches as a template to create our own tales of ghosts\, witches\, demons\, and other supernatural forces.  \nThis workshop is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nWorkshop participants will: \n\nAnalyze how authors utilize the supernatural to interrogate real-world horrors \nExplore techniques for weaving historical facts into speculative fiction\nLeave with four story openings ready for development\n\n\nElizabeth Gonzalez James is a screenwriter and bestselling author of Mona at Sea\, as well as Five Conversations About Peter Sellers.  Her most recent novel The Bullet Swallower was named a best book of 2024 by NPR and Esquire\, was an honor-winner in the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction\, and was featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. She has taught fiction writing at Grub Street\, Story Studio\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/haunted-histories-the-masters-of-latina-horror/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260715T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260715T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T075945Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-07-15/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260717T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260717T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20260326T193541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T193541Z
UID:14026-1784296800-1784311200@geminiink.org
SUMMARY:Touch Paper: A Creative Journaling Workshop for Teens
DESCRIPTION:FREE TEEN OFFERING \nFree & in-person at Gemini Ink and online via Zoom \nRegistration info coming soon. \nTeens 13-19 in Bexar County: learn about creative journaling and how it can promote positive mental health. We’ll put pen to paper and play on the page! Please register for either our online or in-person workshop on our website.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/touch-paper/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260725T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260725T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20241125T170232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T170232Z
UID:13636-1784980800-1784986200@geminiink.org
SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 12-1:30pm cst via Zoom \nFor ages 13-19 years old \nAre you a teen who enjoys writing in their free time? Or are you someone who’s never had the chance to write on their own? If so\, this Online Teen Writing Circle is for you!  \nIn this once-a-month writing circle\, teens will enjoy writing in a judgment free zone. We’ll break the ice with one another and perform various writing exercises. You are encouraged to share your work with your peers and get constructive feedback\, but it is not required. Our only goal is to keep you writing! \nThis course is open to teen writers of any skill level. \nParticipants will leave the writing circle with:  \n\nNew\, unique written work\nListening and sharing experience\nConstructive feedback to help improve their writing\n\nWant to learn more about our Teen Writing Circle? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions!\n \n\nDaniel Ramirez has been an educator for over 15 years. After studying History in grad school\, he tromped around the outdoors doing conservation with teenagers. Spending time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of incorporating creativity with learning. Encouraging youth to tap into their creative abilities convinced him to discover his own. Since then\, in addition to his original love of storytelling\, he’s found a penchant for calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he explores the crystalline waters of Central Texas in his free time. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-07-25/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260727T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260727T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20191105T141203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T141203Z
UID:13648-1785177000-1785184200@geminiink.org
SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-07-27/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260808T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260808T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20260326T181234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T181234Z
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SUMMARY:Dig Into Your Subconscious to Enliven Your Writing with Carmen Calatayud
DESCRIPTION:Sat\, Aug 8\n10am – 2pm CT\, In-person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Educ/Mil: $70 \nRegistration info coming soon. \nThe subconscious mind is a hidden vault that holds our deepest motives\, feelings\, and beliefs. It is also the cradle of dreams\, where meaning emerges and creativity takes shape. So what if we tapped  into this inner world to unlock a richer\, more profound artistic expression? \nIn this one-day workshop\, we will use guided writing exercises and meditative prompts to quiet the inner critic and awaken the intuitive voice that lies just beneath the surface of everyday thought. Through the study of surrealist writers\, we will explore how symbols\, images and fragments from the subconscious can transform into powerful narratives. Whether you write poetry\, fiction or creative nonfiction\, this workshop provides practical tools to write from emotional truth and psychological depth. Come prepared to dig into your fertile inner landscape\, using dreams\, intuition and memory as seeds for evocative storytelling. \nThis workshop is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following: \n\nAn understanding of how the subconscious mind can galvanize writing\nStrategies for connecting with body sensations and imagery to access deeper\, archetypal truths\nSeveral pieces of new writing that open up to unexpected places\n\n\nCarmen Calatayud is a poet\, nonfiction writer and psychotherapist who is fascinated by the subconscious and the surreal. She is the author of two poetry collections: This Tangled Body (FlowerSong Press/Letras Latinas\, 2024) and In the Company of Spirits (Press 53\, 2012)\, a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including POETRY Magazine\, Poet Lore\, Rogue Agent\, Tahoma Literary Journal and Verse Daily. She is a Larry Neal Award Winner\, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow\, and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Calatayud is on the editorial staff of The Skinny Poetry Journal. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/dig-into-your-subconscious/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260811T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260811T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20260326T181828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T181828Z
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SUMMARY:Finding the Fire: Revising and Revisioning the Poem
DESCRIPTION:Literary Masters Lecture Series\nTue\, Aug 11 & 18\n6:30-8pm CT via Zoom\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Educ/Mil: $63 \nRegistration info coming soon. \nWant to turn your cold first draft into a hot work of literary art?  Your first draft is the fodder. Your revision process applies the heat. The outcome is one blazing poem. Join former San Antonio and Texas poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero for a workshop where she walks us through her process for refining her poems. \nIn this two-part lecture\, Laurie Ann Guerrero will offer insight into her process of revising and revisioning poems—listening for urgency\, clarifying imagery\, and taking creative risks. Participants will learn her revision sequence and then participants will each workshop one short poem of their own in an atmosphere of generous\, serious attention. Participants are encouraged to bring a poem (no longer than one page) to revise on the spot. \nThis lecture is open to writers of all skill levels 18+. \nIn this lecture\, students will: \n\nLearn revision techniques that re-envision their work\nRevise one piece of their own written work on the spot\nLeave this lecture with revision tools that can be used at home\n\n\nPoet\, essayist\, and visual artist\, Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio and is the author of REDWORK\, winner of the 2025 Autumn House Poetry Award\, forthcoming in October 2026. Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2014-16) and Texas (2016-2017)\, her award-winning collections\, along with a volume of new & selected poems\, include Babies under the Skin (Panhandler 2008)\, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press 2013)\, A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre Press 2015)\, and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New & Selected Poems (TCU Press 2021). Guerrero holds degrees from Smith College and Drew University. She is an Associate Professor and the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio where she teaches writing\, cultural\, and gender studies. She is currently at work on a novel. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/finding-the-fire/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260819T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260819T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20260326T192113Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk Featuring Deb Olin Unferth
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, August 19\, 2026\, via Zoom for a conversation with Deb Olin Unferth\, to discuss her new book\, Earth 7: A Novel (Graywolf Press).\n\n\n(Virtual Readings Quarterly @ 7pm CST) \n\n\nRSVP \nDeb Olin Unferth’s latest novel\, Earth 7\, is a bold and imaginative work of climate fiction that explores love\, survival\, and what remains of humanity on a nearly uninhabitable planet. As Earth sits on the brink\, two unlikely figures—a woman raised in an ocean pod and another who may be a robot—form a connection in a world where some have fled to Mars and others seek digital immortality. At once poetic\, strange\, and deeply human\, Earth 7 moves from the vast edges of the cosmos to the microscopic\, asking urgent questions about consciousness\, technology\, and what it means to endure. \n\nAbout the Author\nDeb Olin Unferth is the author of seven books\, including Barn 8 and Wait Till You See Me Dance. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and four Pushcart Prizes\, and was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her work has appeared in Harper’s\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, and McSweeney’s.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-featuring-deb-olin-unferth/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260819T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260819T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T075945Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2026-08-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260820T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260820T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20260326T192814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T192814Z
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SUMMARY:Open Writers’ Lab Reading & Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink as we celebrate the literary artistry of our Open Writers’ Lab members with a community reading and open mic.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-reading/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260829T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260829T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20241125T170232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T170232Z
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SUMMARY:Teen Writing Circle with Daniel Ramirez
DESCRIPTION:Register\nLast Saturday of Every Month 12-1:30pm cst via Zoom \nFor ages 13-19 years old \nAre you a teen who enjoys writing in their free time? Or are you someone who’s never had the chance to write on their own? If so\, this Online Teen Writing Circle is for you!  \nIn this once-a-month writing circle\, teens will enjoy writing in a judgment free zone. We’ll break the ice with one another and perform various writing exercises. You are encouraged to share your work with your peers and get constructive feedback\, but it is not required. Our only goal is to keep you writing! \nThis course is open to teen writers of any skill level. \nParticipants will leave the writing circle with:  \n\nNew\, unique written work\nListening and sharing experience\nConstructive feedback to help improve their writing\n\nWant to learn more about our Teen Writing Circle? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions!\n \n\nDaniel Ramirez has been an educator for over 15 years. After studying History in grad school\, he tromped around the outdoors doing conservation with teenagers. Spending time as a Montessori educator revealed the power of incorporating creativity with learning. Encouraging youth to tap into their creative abilities convinced him to discover his own. Since then\, in addition to his original love of storytelling\, he’s found a penchant for calligraphy\, puppetry\, poetry\, and block printing. A San Antonio native\, he explores the crystalline waters of Central Texas in his free time. \n \n  \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/teen-writing-circle-2025-03-29-2025-04-26/2026-08-29/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260831T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20260831T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132946
CREATED:20191105T141203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T141203Z
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction.\n \n  \n\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25-2025-04-28-2025-05-26/2026-08-31/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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