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SUMMARY:The Art of Zine Making with Caesar Morales
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, February 3 & 10\, 2024\, 10am-12pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Caesar Morales\nNonmember: $100;  Member: $85; Student $75.\n \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nWant to get your work out there but don’t want to wait for traditional publication? A zine is a quick\, easy way to distribute your writing in a format that’s one of a kind and easily digestible. These small independent publications are usually handmade and combine a collection of photos\, text\, illustrations\, poems\, etc.\, around a common theme. Because there is no definitive structure or layout for a zine\, this allows for highly creative book-making that can turn the publication itself into a work of art.  \nIn this two-session workshop\, we will use short writing prompts to generate new work around specific themes\, add visual elements through photos and drawings\, receive feedback\, and complete a mini-zine. We will also learn how best to distribute hard copy or digital zines. \nBasic supplies\, including construction paper\, writing utensils\, scissors\, glue\, and collage materials will be provided. Students are encouraged to bring in their own clip art\, magazines\, or photos that fit on 5.5” x  8.5” paper.  \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill level\, 18+.  \nStudents will leave with the following:  \n\n\n\nNew creative writing pieces\nOne handmade mini-zine\nInstructions on how to make more zines independently\nIdeas on how to distribute zines\n\n\n\nLearn more about Caesar at his Writer’s Desk Q&A.\nCaesar Morales has an MA in Playwriting and Screenwriting from City University of London in the UK. Prior to that\, he obtained a BSc from the University of Greenwich\, also in the UK. His photo essays have been published in Private Photo Review\, and he will have an original short story published in the upcoming anthology\, The 42 Anthology\, featuring 42 stories from 42 different writers\, each writing in 42 different genres/categories. Caesar’s story “The Outlaw Gerald Dorris” will be published in the Western category. He’s also taught podcast production\, photography\, filmmaking\, zine publishing and screenwriting at Wac Arts College in London\, UK and at the Institute for the Urban Arts in New York City. He’s also had two feature-length screenplays workshopped at the London Screenwriter’s Festival. \n\n\nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-art-of-zine-making-with-caesar-morales/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Breaking Through: A Conversation on Pathways to Publication for Latinx Writers
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public \nJoin Gemini Ink on Friday\, October 6th\, to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 with a timely and intimate literary discussion about current publishing trends and Latinx representation in books.\nThis event features Latinx authors and publishers and provides a space to discuss how to break barriers and create pathways toward publication in a literary landscape where Latinx writers account for only 7% of published authors. Our guests will talk about how they navigated the publishing industry and illuminate how Latinx writers can forge a path toward sharing their own stories.   \n\nModerator: \nNorma Elia Cantú recently served as the President of the American Folklore Society (2020-2022) and holds the Murchison Professorship of the Humanities at Trinity University. Her research and creative writing have earned her an international reputation. Her most recent publications include the co-edited anthologies: Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa: Pedagogies and Practices for our Classrooms and Communities and meXicana Fashions: Politics\, Self-Adornment\, and Identity Construction; the novel\, Cabañuelas\, and a poetry collection: Meditacion Fronteriza: Poems of Love\, Life\, and Labor. She has two forthcoming publications\, Fiestas in Laredo: Matachines\, Quinceañeras\, and George Washington’s Birthday Celebration &; The Folklorico Dance Tradition in US Latinx Communities. She is at work on a collection of poems tentatively titled Remedios. \nPanelists: \nCloud Delfina Cardona is a poet and visual artist from San Anto\, Tejas. Cardona is the author of What Remains\, winner of the 2020 Host Publications Chapbook Prize. She is the co-founder of Infrarrealista Review\, a literary nonprofit dedicated to publishing Texan writers. Cardona’s poems can be found in Prairie Schooner\, Los Angeles Review\, The Boiler\, Tinderbox\, and more. \nEddie Vega (the Taco-Poet of Texas) is a poet\, storyteller\, educator\, and Macondista. He is the author of Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press\, 2019) and recipient of the literary arts grant from the Luminaria Artist Foundation (2021). Last summer\, he was named best local poet by the San Antonio Current and won two major head-to-head haiku contests. Most recently\, he’s published a collection of poems written by South Texans entitled\, Asina is How We Talk. Vega hosts The Mouth Dakota Poetry Project\, a biweekly open mic in San Antonio\, TX. \nKatie Gutierrez is the author of the national bestselling\, Edgar Award-nominated debut novel MORE THAN YOU’LL EVER KNOW\, which was also a Good Morning America Book Club selection. She is a National Magazine Award finalist whose essays and features have appeared in TIME\, Texas Highways\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and more\, and acknowledged in Best American Magazine Writing and Best American Essays. She has an MFA from Texas State University and lives in San Antonio\, Texas\, with her husband and their two kids.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/pathways-to-publication-for-latinx-writers/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Start and Run Your Own Publishing Business with Maria Maloney
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Sept 5\, 12\, 19 & 26\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Maria Miranda Maloney\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n\n\n\n  \nDo you want to leave your imprint on your literary community? \nDo you want to run your own press or independent publishing house\, but don’t know where to begin? Or are you currently in the publishing business but looking for ways to bolster your publication process\, marketing\, and distribution?  \nIn this course\, we will study various successful small-to-mid-size publishers and walk through the steps of starting or growing a small press. This process will include developing a mission statement\, exploring resources\, producing an operating budget\, creating a customer profile\, and discussing distribution options. We will use these elements to build a business plan that will help you execute your vision. \nThis course is for anyone who has dreamed of starting their own press or is curious to explore different ways to impact their literary communities. This class is also for established publishers looking for new business ideas.  \nCourse Learning Objectives \n\nAssess your interest and strengths to launch a publishing business. \nDevelop a mission serving a unique\, underserved\, or underdeveloped niche.\nUnderstand your customer and target market.\nIntegrate financial facets into your development plan.\nDraft a business plan. \n\n\n\nMaria Miranda Maloney is an entrepreneur\, writer\, editor\, and publisher. She founded Mouthfeel Press\, a small for-profit\, mission-driven publishing house\, in 2009 in El Paso\, Texas. Before launching her press\, Maria worked as a consultant and project manager in public relations\, sales\, and small business development sectors. She has over sixteen years of experience in publishing\, has coordinated publishing and writing workshops for the Wise Latina International organization\, and was the Ofstad Writing Scholar at Truman State University in 2019. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and is finishing her M.A. in Publishing from George Washington University in Washington\, D.C. \n 
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SUMMARY:The Creative Writer’s Professional Toolkit with Lyzette Wanzer
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, June 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 & July 11\, 18\, 6:30-8:30pm CST via Zoom\nInstructor: Lyzette Wanzer\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nAre you ready to take the leap from writing hobbyist to professional writer? If so\, gain the tools every professional writer needs to make it in a competitive field.\nThis intensive hands-on workshop will provide you with the career savvy you need to stand out from the crowd of writers who\, though they may be talented\, lack the marketplace acumen they need to boost their opportunities from good to great. Learn a comprehensive set of professional practices that translate your talent into actionable\, real-world skills for elevating your literary career. Learn how to increase your chances of earning grants\, landing residencies\, and getting published.  \nOver the course of this workshop\, you will acquire the practices and strategies you need to take advantage of scores of opportunities for your work–skills you can put into immediate effect! After completing this course\, many students have garnered their first literary grant\, writing conference invitation\, or publication credit. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nA short & long bio\nA current writer’s curriculum vitae/resume that will get you noticed\nIdeas for keeping track of professional achievements and updating your CV\n\n\nLyzette Wanzer is a San Francisco writer\, editor\, and writing workshop instructor. She received her MFA in Fiction from Mills College. A flash fiction connoisseur and essay aficionado\, her work has appeared in Natural Bridge\, The Los Angeles Review\, Callaloo\, Tampa Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ampersand Review\, Journal of Advanced Development\, Fourteen Hills\, Journal of Experimental Fiction\, Pleiades\, Flashquake\, Glossalia Flash Fiction\, Potomac Review\, International Journal on Literature and Theory\, Fringe Magazine\, and many others. She is a contributor to Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth From the Margins (Wayne State University Press 2022)\, The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie 2012)\, Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the San Francisco Bay Area (Pease Press 2019)\, and 642 Tiny Things to Write About (Chronicle Books 2015). Her articles have appeared in Essay Daily\, The Naked Truth\, and the San Francisco University High School Journal. Lyzette is the current judge of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay category and the Women’s National Book Association’s Effie Lee Morris Writing Contest’s nonfiction category. \nLyzette has been invited to present her work and/or panels at conferences across the country\, including the American and Popular Culture Association\, Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)\, College English Association (CEA)\, Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900\, Litquake Festival\, San Francisco Writers Conference\, and others.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writers-professional-toolkit/
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