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SUMMARY:Luminescence and Grit: An Evening with Gemini Ink Teaching Artists\, followed by a Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, September 21st\, for a night of poetry\, prose\, and performance as we celebrate the personal artistry of our Gemini Ink Partner Class teaching artists. Every day these instructors bring their passion for the writing arts to community spaces and inspire students of all ages. Tonight we hear their stories! \nOur featured writers will include theater artist and playwright Marisela Barrera\, accomplished poet and educator Jim LaVilla-Havelin\, award-winning fiction writer Desiree Kannel\, and local poet and member of the Wyrdd Writers collective Annie Snider. \nFollowing the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 3-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/luminescence-and-grit-reading/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230912T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230912T203000
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SUMMARY:Weaving Across Languages: A Poetry Workshop with Octavio Quintanilla
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Sept 12\, 19 & 26\, 2023 6:30pm-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid (in-person at Gemini Ink and online via Zoom)\nInstructor: Octavio Quintanilla\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n\n  \n\nSlang\, dialects\, common expressions\, codeswitching\, and every variation of language from across the world. Translanguage captures the rich variety of how people express themselves. It taps into culture\, family\, all the places we’ve lived\, and our own linguistic quirks. \nIn this three-session workshop\, participants will study the poetry of writers who use translanguaging to infuse their work with a unique voice. Participants will identify and explore all of the languages that are part of who they are\, and use prompts to write poems that weave in their linguistic identity. This workshop will also include techniques for effective revision and editing.  \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill levels\, 18+. This course does not require fluency in more than one language\, but multilingual students are highly encouraged to register. \nIn this course\, students will: \n\n\n\nExplore variations of language \nLearn techniques for applying translanguaging to your own work\nGenerate new poems and receive feedback for revision\n\n\n\n\nOctavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collection\, If I Go Missing\, the founder and director of the literature & arts festival\, VersoFrontera\, publisher of Alabrava Press\, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. His new poetry collection\, The Book of Wounded Sparrows\, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in fall 2024. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University. \n\nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/weaving-across-languages/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230905T183000
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SUMMARY:Start and Run Your Own Publishing Business with Maria Maloney
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, Sept 5\, 12\, 19 & 26\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Maria Miranda Maloney\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n\n\n\n  \nDo you want to leave your imprint on your literary community? \nDo you want to run your own press or independent publishing house\, but don’t know where to begin? Or are you currently in the publishing business but looking for ways to bolster your publication process\, marketing\, and distribution?  \nIn this course\, we will study various successful small-to-mid-size publishers and walk through the steps of starting or growing a small press. This process will include developing a mission statement\, exploring resources\, producing an operating budget\, creating a customer profile\, and discussing distribution options. We will use these elements to build a business plan that will help you execute your vision. \nThis course is for anyone who has dreamed of starting their own press or is curious to explore different ways to impact their literary communities. This class is also for established publishers looking for new business ideas.  \nCourse Learning Objectives \n\nAssess your interest and strengths to launch a publishing business. \nDevelop a mission serving a unique\, underserved\, or underdeveloped niche.\nUnderstand your customer and target market.\nIntegrate financial facets into your development plan.\nDraft a business plan. \n\n\n\nMaria Miranda Maloney is an entrepreneur\, writer\, editor\, and publisher. She founded Mouthfeel Press\, a small for-profit\, mission-driven publishing house\, in 2009 in El Paso\, Texas. Before launching her press\, Maria worked as a consultant and project manager in public relations\, sales\, and small business development sectors. She has over sixteen years of experience in publishing\, has coordinated publishing and writing workshops for the Wise Latina International organization\, and was the Ofstad Writing Scholar at Truman State University in 2019. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and is finishing her M.A. in Publishing from George Washington University in Washington\, D.C. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/start-and-run-your-own-publishing-business-with-maria-maloney/
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Poetry of Food with Eddie Vega 
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, July 10\, 17\, 24 & 31\, 2023\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Eddie Vega\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nFood is much more than sustenance–it’s family recipes\, friend-filled reunions\, and debates over who makes it best\, who made it right\, and why ketchup can’t be spread on tamales! Most importantly\, food is culture. This workshop will explore all of this and more as participants write about the dishes\, meals\, and snacks that have impacted their palate and their lives. \nIn this 4-session workshop\, we will dig up memories we associate with food\, and use these recollections to explore writing about the delectable in different poetic forms\, including haiku\, odes\, sonnets\, lists\, etc. Each session will include mentor texts and generative work. This course is open to adult writers of all skill levels.  \nStudents will leave this course with: \n\nSuggestions on how to capture the essence and meaning of food\nKnowledge of and experience with writing in different poetic forms \nUnderstanding of how personal history and culture influence how we perceive food\n\nRead Eddie’s Writer’s Desk here!\n\nEddie Vega is a poet\, spoken word artist\, storyteller\, and educator. His poetry has been displayed on VIA Buses and downtown San Antonio buildings. His first full-length collection of poetry\, Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press) was published in 2019 and he is the 2021 recipient of the Literary Arts Grant from the Luminaria Artist Foundation. In 2022\, Vega won the Haiku Death Match at both the Southern Fried Poetry Slam and the NSFPS BlackBerry Peach Slam. His latest project is a collection of poems written by South Texas poets entitled\, Asina is How We Talk. Vega writes about food\, Tejano culture\, social justice\, and the intersections thereof. Known as the Taco-Poet of Texas\, he can be found nightly at an open-mic\, slam\, or taqueria anywhere throughout South Texas. \n\nParking at Gemini Ink \nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetry-of-food/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:TELLING A STORY OF YOUR LIFE: A Personal Essay Workshop with Kendra Allen
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 & Aug 3\, 10\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid: Via Zoom or in person.\nInstructor: Kendra Allen\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full\nTo add your name to the waiting list\, email joshua@geminiink.org. \n  \nIn the span of every life are countless moments\, stories\, and revelations. When writing a personal narrative\, how do writers select what will most speak their truth and resonate with readers?\n  \nIn this 6-week course\, we’ll focus on demystifying the personal narrative process by figuring out what’s a snapshot and what’s a story. Writing is hard\, and writing about yourself is sometimes even harder. Most times\, we typically assume we have to state our entire lives in one piece\, so even the thought of putting pen to page becomes intimidating. This workshop will explore how to pinpoint storylines within ourselves by simply leaning into who you naturally are\, how you naturally sound\, and what you naturally gravitate to\, as a writer. Through games\, prompts\, and other exercises\, we’ll focus on generating work every week\, searching for our many truths\, and coming out on the other side with sentences that start with words like “I” and “My.” This course is open to adult writers of all skill levels.   \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following: \n\nA starting point for a personal essay\nAn understanding of how to differentiate between a situation and a story\nTechniques for nurturing your voice on the page\nIdeas on how to create prompts for yourself to generate material\n\nRead Kendra’s Writer’s Desk here!\n\nAn award-winning essayist and poet\, Kendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas\, TX. She loves laughing\, leaving\, and writing Make Love in My Car\, a music column for Southwest Review. Some of her other work can be found in The Paris Review\, High Times\, The Rumpus\, and more. She’s the author of the New York Times lauded poetry collection The Collection Plate (Harper Collins 2022) and essay collection When You Learn the Alphabet\, which won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. Fruit Punch (Ecco 2022)\, her memoir\, is out now and receiving praise from all corners. Jaquira Díaz\, author of Ordinary Girls\, states: “A stunning and original memoir about Black girlhood and coming of age. Allen is both a storyteller and poet\, observing the world with curiosity and humor. Fruit Punch is simultaneously brilliant cultural commentary and an intimate portrayal of family and community\, and it will stay with me for a long\, long time.” \n\nParking at Gemini Ink \nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/telling-a-story-of-your-life/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230701T130000
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SUMMARY:How to Use Lists to Generate Endless Writing Ideas with Nathan Brown
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, July 1 & 8\, 10am-1pm CST\, Hybrid (in-person and online)\nInstructor: Nathan Brown\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \n  \nMaster the art of the list and never get caught without something to write about! \n  \nMany writers\, from Dickens to Twain\, and Hemingway on up to Stephen King\, had (or have) a daily writing practice\, and many say this discipline was their ‘great teacher’ when it comes to the craft of writing. In this open genre workshop\, we will demystify the idea of “writer’s block\,” explore techniques to maintain a sustainable daily writing practice\, and discuss what works and doesn’t work for busy writers. This will be a generative workshop\, so you will leave this workshop with plenty of ideas.  \nThis course is open to adult writers of all genres and all skill levels.  \nStudents will leave this workshop with the following:  \n\nIdeas on how to use lists to generate material and organize it into “themes” \nGuidance on how to establish and maintain a daily writing practice \nTime management tips on scheduling “bite-sized” writing time and getting the work done\nWriting topics to explore and develop after the class\n\n\nNathan Brown is an author\, songwriter\, and award-winning poet living in Wimberley\, Texas. He holds a PhD in English and Journalism from the University of Oklahoma\, where he’s taught for over 20 years. He served as Poet Laureate for the State of Oklahoma in 2013-14\, and now travels full-time performing readings\, concerts\, workshops\, and speaking on creativity\, poetry\, and songwriting. \nNathan has published over 20 books. Most recent are his new collection of poems\, In the Days for Our Resilience\, the fourth in a series now known as the Pandemic Poems Project\, and a new travel memoir\, Just Another Honeymoon in France: A Vagabond at Large. A previous collection\, Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems\, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Oklahoma Book Award. \nHe’s written at least one poem a day for the last twenty-five years and says nothing has taught him more about writing. \n\nParking at Gemini Ink \nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/generate-endless-writing-ideas/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230607T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230607T203000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
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SUMMARY:How Writers Read with Bestselling Author Laura Castoro
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, June 7\, 14\, 21\, 28 & July 12\, 19\, 6:30-8:30pm CST\, Hybrid: Via Zoom or in person.\nInstructor: Laura Castoro\nNonmember: $155; Member: $135; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nHave you ever read a great book that grabs you from the first page and wondered\, “How did the author do that?” Reading can be a writer’s greatest teacher when it comes to learning what works and doesn’t work on the page. \n\nIn this 6-week workshop\, with bestselling author Laura Castoro as our guide\, we will use close reading to examine how the writing pros achieve enviable work. We will explore how to read more deeply so we can deconstruct how the author sets the mood\, adheres to or manipulates conventions\, and plays with boundaries. In each session\, we will use excerpts from popular fiction books and short writing prompts to stimulate our imagination and inspire new written work.   \nThis course is open to adult writers of all skill levels.  \nIn this course\, students will: \n\nExplore how to effectively set the mood of a story to draw the reader in\nIdentify how writers manipulate conventions and play with boundaries\nLearn what is and is not important to the reader\nImmediately apply concepts using short\, generative writing prompts\n\nRead Laura’s Writer’s Desk interview HERE.\n\nLaura Castoro\, a USA Today\, Amazon top 100\, and Apple Books bestseller\, has published 47 novels with major publishing houses such as Dell Books\, Berkley\, Avon\, Warner\, MIRA\, Harlequin\, Kensington\, Pocketbooks\, St\, Harper Collins\, Martins Press\, and William Morrow. She has also contributed to several fiction anthologies and has published non-fiction YA and short fiction in Good Housekeeping. Under the name Laura Parker\, she writes historical and contemporary romance\, westerns\, and sagas. As Laura Castoro\, she writes contemporary African American and contemporary women’s fiction. Writing as D. D. Ayres\, she publishes a romantic suspense series called the K-9 Rescue Series. Her current release as Laura Castoro is Love On The Line (2021) through William Morrow. \nLaura has won multiple national writing awards. In 2005 she was inducted into the Arkansas Writers’ Hall of Fame. She is a past president of Novelists\, Inc. (2013)\, an international professional fiction writers’ organization. She is a past president and board member of the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow\, a writer residency program in the AR Ozarks. She is a speaker at numerous conferences and workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Laura currently lives in San Antonio\, TX.  Visit www.ddayres.com.\n \n\nParking at Gemini Ink \nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/how-writers-read/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230606T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230606T203000
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SUMMARY:The Creative Writer’s Professional Toolkit with Lyzette Wanzer
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, June 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 & July 11\, 18\, 6:30-8:30pm CST via Zoom\nInstructor: Lyzette Wanzer\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nAre you ready to take the leap from writing hobbyist to professional writer? If so\, gain the tools every professional writer needs to make it in a competitive field.\nThis intensive hands-on workshop will provide you with the career savvy you need to stand out from the crowd of writers who\, though they may be talented\, lack the marketplace acumen they need to boost their opportunities from good to great. Learn a comprehensive set of professional practices that translate your talent into actionable\, real-world skills for elevating your literary career. Learn how to increase your chances of earning grants\, landing residencies\, and getting published.  \nOver the course of this workshop\, you will acquire the practices and strategies you need to take advantage of scores of opportunities for your work–skills you can put into immediate effect! After completing this course\, many students have garnered their first literary grant\, writing conference invitation\, or publication credit. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nA short & long bio\nA current writer’s curriculum vitae/resume that will get you noticed\nIdeas for keeping track of professional achievements and updating your CV\n\n\nLyzette Wanzer is a San Francisco writer\, editor\, and writing workshop instructor. She received her MFA in Fiction from Mills College. A flash fiction connoisseur and essay aficionado\, her work has appeared in Natural Bridge\, The Los Angeles Review\, Callaloo\, Tampa Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ampersand Review\, Journal of Advanced Development\, Fourteen Hills\, Journal of Experimental Fiction\, Pleiades\, Flashquake\, Glossalia Flash Fiction\, Potomac Review\, International Journal on Literature and Theory\, Fringe Magazine\, and many others. She is a contributor to Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth From the Margins (Wayne State University Press 2022)\, The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie 2012)\, Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the San Francisco Bay Area (Pease Press 2019)\, and 642 Tiny Things to Write About (Chronicle Books 2015). Her articles have appeared in Essay Daily\, The Naked Truth\, and the San Francisco University High School Journal. Lyzette is the current judge of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay category and the Women’s National Book Association’s Effie Lee Morris Writing Contest’s nonfiction category. \nLyzette has been invited to present her work and/or panels at conferences across the country\, including the American and Popular Culture Association\, Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)\, College English Association (CEA)\, Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900\, Litquake Festival\, San Francisco Writers Conference\, and others.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writers-professional-toolkit/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230603T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230603T120000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
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SUMMARY:'Tell All the Truth\, but Tell It Slant:' Writing About Trauma with Thomas McNeely
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, June 3\, 10\, 17 & 24\, 10am-12pm CST via Zoom\nInstructor: Thomas McNeely\nNonmember: $150; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nHow do we tell the story of a traumatic event or its aftermath?  What if\, after the event\, we were silenced by others or just by our own inability to put the experience into words? \n  \nIn this generative course\, we will experiment with different approaches to narrating real or fictional trauma while keeping in mind that each traumatic experience suggests a variety of different stories and may be narrated in a variety of different ways. We will explore writing different versions of the same story and decide which form–poem\, short story\, novel\, memoir\, or a hybrid of any of these narrative approaches–will best capture the traumatic experience and its after effects.  \nOur approaches will be based on short excerpts from work by Sylvia Plath\, Brian Teare\, Ocean Vuong\, Mary Karr\, Eimear McBride\, and other creative writers\, and will incorporate ideas from trauma narrative theorists and researchers\, including Cathy Caruth and Bessel van der Kolk. \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels. \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following: \n\nAn understanding of how to write about trauma and its impact\nIdeas on which narrative form can best capture the traumatic experience \nA starting place for their own piece of writing \n\n\n\nAn East Side Houston native\, THOMAS H. McNEELY has received National Endowment for the Arts\, Wallace Stegner\, MacDowell Colony\, and Dobie Paisano fellowships for his fiction. Pictures of the Shark: Stories (Texas Review Press) is his second book.  His first book\, Ghost Horse\, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic\, Texas Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and many other magazines and anthologies\, including The Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books’ Best of the South. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award anthologies. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College\, Boston\, and has led writing workshops at the Grub Street Writers Workshops\, the Lighthouse Writers Workshops\, the Writers’ League of Texas\, Writespace Houston\, and Inprint Houston.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230520T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230520T130000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
CREATED:20230130T200014Z
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SUMMARY:Spot Revision with Mary Helen Stefaniak
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 20\, 10am-1pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Mary Helen Stefaniak\nNonmember: $100; Member: $85; Student/Vet/Mil $50 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \n\nHow often could someone look up from reading your manuscript and say to the person across the table\, “Listen to this!”?\n\n\nDo you reward the reader with juicy details and interesting word choices to sink their mind into on every single page? In this spot revision class\, we will examine our written work and find opportunities to expand\, rephrase\, and substitute words for attention-grabbing language. We will also discuss ways to make our work fresh and unpredictable and add texture. We are not focusing on small mistakes but on small ways to take our prose to the next level. \nTo prepare for this class\, we will read mentor texts and prepare a page (250 to 300 words) pulled from our own fiction or creative nonfiction to use in practice. In class\, we’ll exchange pages and provide suggestions for making our writing more riveting and our word choice more compelling. Then\, we’ll assess the comments and apply the techniques learned in class to create a stronger draft.  \nThis workshop is open to writers of all skill levels with work ready to edit. \nIn this class\, you will:  \n\nGain new editing strategies to pack powerful prose onto each page\nGive and receive on-the-spot editing suggestions\nLearn to sift through feedback to keep what’s useful \n\n\nMary Helen Stefaniak’s new novel\, The World of Pondside\, was released by Blackstone Publishing in April 2022. Booklist has said of the novel—a mystery set in a nursing home—that “Stefaniak infuses an often forbidding environment with joy and dignity in this Agatha Christie-esque cyber caper.” Mary Helen’s first book of nonfiction\, The Six-Minute Memoir: Fifty-Five Short Essays on Life\, was published by The University of Iowa Press in Fall 2022. The essays are selected from more than 20 years’ worth of monthly columns she wrote for The Iowa Source. Mary Helen Stefaniak is a writer of fiction and essays whose work has appeared in many publications\, including The Iowa Review\, EPOCH\, The Yale Review\, AGNI\,  The Antioch Review\, and in several anthologies. You can read more about Mary Helen and her work at https://maryhelenstefaniak.com.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/spot-revision-with-mary-helen-stefaniak/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230506T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230506T160000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
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SUMMARY:(Poetry) Slam 201 with C.L. “Rooster” Martinez
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, May 6\, 13\, 20 & 27\, 2-4pm\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: C.L. “Rooster” Martinez\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Cancelled\n\nImagine stepping up to the mic at a poetry slam with less than 3 minutes to captivate the audience.\nWhat will you say? How will you use your voice\, face\, and body language to take the audience on an emotional rollercoaster? \n\n(Poetry) Slam 201 is a generative and performance workshop focused on individual and collaborative writing for live competition. We will briefly examine the history and rules of the Slam Poetry genre\, write new and exciting work as individuals and teams\, use a critique session to delve deep into the poem’s intended message\, and focus on moving the written word from the page to the microphone. Participants will receive performance tips and feedback that will add emotional depth and impact to their spoken word delivery. \n(Poetry) Slam 201 is designed for most writers (17 years old and up) of any experience level.  \n*For those who took Slam 101\, this class will expand on the knowledge gained in the first class and is more generative and performance-focused. Please note (Poetry) Slam 101 is not a prerequisite\, as this class will briefly reintroduce the lessons of the former class. \nParticipants will leave this class with the following tools: \n\nKnowledge of Slam Poetry history & rules\nPractice writing individual and collaborative poems \nWriting and performance feedback for creating a powerful stage presentation\n\n\nChristopher “Rooster” Martinez is an educator and spoken word poet from San Antonio\, Texas. He earned a MA/MFA in Creative Writing\, Literature & Social Justice at Our Lady of the Lake University. He is the author of two poetry books: A Saint for Lost Things (Alabrava Press\, 2020) and As it is in Heaven (Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press\, 2020). For twelve years\, Rooster competed and won slams across the country and co-founded the literary nonprofit Write Art Out Inc.  \n\nParking at Gemini Ink \nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetry-slam-201/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230415T130000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
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SUMMARY:Literary Movements with Rod Carlos Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 15\, 9am-1pm CST\, in-person at Government Canyon (12861 Galm Road\, San Antonio\, Texas 78254)\nInstructor: Rod Carlos Rodriguez\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Vet/Mil $60 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \nNature has inspired countless writers and artists and played a key role in many literary movements\, from Transcendentalism to SLAM poetry. As such\, this class will examine these movements and their nature-based connections so that we may draw upon them for our own creativity. \nFor additional inspiration\, we will be in nature’s classroom\, the great outdoors! We will share and write from the comfort of the Government Canyon Gallery\, which provides an enclosed classroom wrapped in windows and a gorgeous 360° view of the surrounding woods.  \nClass participants will use body movement as a source of creativity\, find their own corners of nature to sit in and write from\, and participate in small group work. Bring a bottle of water and a folding chair! Following the class\, participants are encouraged to stick around and explore the park on their own. \nAfter taking this class\, students will be able to: \n\nFuse the great outdoors into their own writing process.\nIdentify multiple American Literary Movements (both past and present)\, from  Transcendentalism and Surrealism to the Beat Generation\, and more.\nGather inspiration from an array of writers associated with these literary movements.\n\n*This class will be held in the Government Canyon Gallery. The event space is covered and still accessible in the event of rain.  \n\nRod Carlos Rodriguez has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. He has trained as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio Writing Program. He is also an award-winning poet who has written for over 40 years. He has three books of poetry published and is the founder/chair of the Sun Poet’s Society\, South Texas’s longest-running weekly open-mic poetry reading (1995-2022). He was nominated for the San Antonio Poet Laureate in April 2012\, April 2014\, April 2016\, and April 2018. He was the poetry editor for Ocotillo Review (Kallisto Gaia Press)\, a literary journal/periodical\, and he was the editor of Texas Poetry Calendar 2023 (Kallisto Gaia Press).
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/literary-movements-with-rod-rodriguez/
LOCATION:Government Canyon\, 12861 Galm Road\, San Antonio\, 78254\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230413T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230413T200000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
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SUMMARY:Words\, Wine and Wisdom: A Night of Stories with Leticia Urieta\, Rooster Martinez & Andrew Porter
DESCRIPTION:A Night of Stories with Leticia Urieta\, Rooster Martinez & Andrew Porter followed by a Community Open Mic\nThurs\, April 13\, 6:30-8pm\, In-Person\nPoetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\nFree & Open to the Public \nJoin us for a night of poetry and literary celebration as we partner with our friends at Poetic Republic Coffee Co. to create an inviting space for the writing community to share words\, wine\, and wisdom\, with a little latte or espresso on the side. \nGet ready to be inspired by the mesmerizing worlds of three writers\, each with their own ferocity of voice. The evening kicks off with Leticia Urieta reading from her hybrid collection of poems and short stories\, Las Criaturas (2021)\, which “tells the stories of untold women.” She’ll be joined by special guests C.L. “Rooster” Martinez and Andrew Porter\, who will share the gifts of their recent works. \nFollowing the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 3-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm. \n\nLeticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin\, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and the Regional Program Manager of Austin Bat Cave\, as well as the co-director of Barrio Writers Austin and Pflugerville\, a free creative writing program for youth. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Chicon Street Poets\, Lumina\, The Offing\, Kweli Journal\, Medium\, Electric Lit\, and others. Her chapbook\, The Monster\, was published in 2018 by LibroMobile Press. Her hybrid collection\, Las Criaturas\, was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters and is out now from FlowerSong Press. \nChristopher “Rooster” Martinez is an educator and spoken word poet from San Antonio\, Texas. He earned a MA/MFA in Creative Writing\, Literature & Social Justice at Our Lady of the Lake University. He is the author of two poetry books: A Saint for Lost Things (Alabrava Press\, 2020) and As it is in Heaven (Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press\, 2020). For twelve years\, Rooster competed and won slams across the country and co-founded the literary nonprofit Write Art Out Inc.  \nAndrew Porter is the acclaimed\, award-winning author of the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf 2023) and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage)\, and the novel In Between Days (Knopf). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has received a Pushcart Prize\, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story\, The Threepenny Review\, Ploughshares\, Narrative\, The Southern Review\, and on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. He teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/words-wine-and-wisdom/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 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:20230401T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230401T120000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
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SUMMARY:All Things Are Alive: Animating the Inanimate–Puppetry for Writers with Mobi Warren
DESCRIPTION:Dates/Times: Saturdays\, April 1\, 8\, 22\, and 29\, 10am – 12pm cst\nInstructor: Mobi Warren\nCost: Nonmember:  $165  Member:  $145  Student/Vet/Mil: $95\n*In person at Gemini Ink \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \nAre you looking for a different way to tap into your creativity? Are you ready to experience the curiosity\, wonder\, and empathy that puppetry naturally inspires? \nUnder the guidance of puppeteer and poet Mobi Warren\, workshop participants will build a simple hand puppet from paper mâché and cloth\, and breathe life into the personality that emerges. The process may culminate in a poem\, a short prose piece\, or a monologue puppet script. Participants will be encouraged to sense the livingness in the materials used and to explore unexpected insights that emerge as the puppet acquires form. No puppetry experience is required to attend this workshop\, and writers of all levels are welcome.   \nStudents will leave this workshop with the following tools: \n\nA guide on creating a simple papier mache glove (hand) puppet\nTechniques for animating a puppet through voice\, character\, and story\nHow to use puppetry to uncover new poems or songs \nExploration of puppetry as a new point of entry into the creative writing process\n\n*Bring a journal to write in. Puppetry supplies will be provided for all participants.  \n*The cost of this workshop includes a $20 supply fee \n\nPuppeteer Mobi Warren is the author of the young adult novel The Bee Maker and a poetry collection\, Thread and Nectar. She is co-founder of the regional writers and artists collaborative\, Stone in Stream\, which advocates for environmental awareness and climate justice. Mobi serves on the Board of the National Capital Puppetry Guild.  An animist at heart\, she is enchanted by the livingness of all materials and is currently in thrall to the wild (and sometimes unruly) species known as puppets\, and how making and animating a puppet can help a writer engage more deeply with creative and empathetic energies. \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/puppetry-for-writers/
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:20230327T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230327T203000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T124403Z
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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. \nRegister\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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27/2023-03-27/
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:20230323T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230323T204500
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
CREATED:20230130T172842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T181240Z
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SUMMARY:How to Get Yourself Out on Social Media for Busy Writers with Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson and Zach Jewell
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, March 23 & 30\, 6:30-8:45pm CST\, Hybrid: participants may attend in-person at Gemini Ink or online via Zoom\nInstructors: Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson and Zach Jewell\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \n\nAre you a busy writer seeking balance between a hectic writing life and building a network of social media supporters?\nWant to get to know your followers but just can’t find the time?\n\n2020-2023 San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson and social media expert Zach Jewell are teaming up to share insider secrets for creating engaging\, writing-related social media content that will keep your followers up-to-date and involved with you as a writer and human being. \nIn this two-part course\, we will discuss time-sensitive strategies for promoting yourself and your artistry on social media. We will brainstorm creative ideas to interact\, engage\, and share relatable content without overwhelming ourselves or losing time. Finally\, we will consider simple systems for managing the tedious challenge of social media and website upkeep. \nYou will leave the workshop with the following: \n\nIdeas on how to better manage social media interaction while leaving room to breathe\nA better understanding of a variety of social media platforms and their individual power\nTips on how to keep your followers engaged with you and your content\n\nClick the link to watch the video where Vocab & Zach Jewell explain the importance of social media as a tool to share your work: instagram.com/p/CpBxA3zqzNP/. \n\nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a San Antonio native that has been performing for over twenty years. She’s the co-host of the consecutive award-winning 2nd Verse Open Mic. She has served as a Writer in Community for Gemini Ink since 2009. She’s the winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award\, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as the Artist Foundation of San Antonio). Her debut book entitled: She Lives In Music\, published on Flower Song Press\, was released on Valentine’s Day 2020. Her album She Tastes Like Music is available on all music streaming platforms. On April 1st\, 2020\, Andrea became the first African American Poet Laureate of San Antonio 2020-2023. In May of 2020\, she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards. \nZach Jewell has been a poet and percussionist and has been creating and promoting community events and programs for the arts for over 20 years. He’s managed marketing initiatives and social media accounts for Costco\, The YMCA\, and Amazon. He is currently wearing many hats as an entrepreneur running a nonprofit for men’s mental wellness\, creating programming\, marketing\, and social media platforms\, among many other things. He also has a self-published book of poetry on Amazon titled Nomad Psalms. \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/social-media-for-busy-writers/
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:20230308T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230308T203000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
CREATED:20230123T215413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126T134004Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply: 3 Women Poets Talk to the Gods with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, March 8\, 15 & 22\, 6:30-8:30pm\, CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Veronica Golos\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n\n \nI absolutely loved the workshop with Veronica Golos. Even with a larger turnout\, she kept the community of the class intact. We had a great time reading deeply and sharing our own works. —Cathlin Noonan\, previous student of Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply \nWhether a writer is talking directly to God or using religious reflection to try and make sense of humanity\, poetry is shrouded in spiritual mystery and is often used to explore both concrete and intangible concepts of a higher power. \nIn this three-week workshop\, we will study impactful poems from three women poets who invoke ideas of God or the gods. Louise Gluck’s book The Wild Iris enlists flowers from the garden of eden to help tell a story. Lucille Clifton’s “brothers” is an eight-poem conversation between an aged Lucifer and God. Natalia Toledo’s body of written work speaks to the Zapotec gods in three languages: Zapotec\, Spanish\, and English. \nClass readings and suggestions on how to write your own response poem to these poets (and these gods) will be shared prior to the workshop. \nParticipants will: \n\nStudy and analyze the work of 3 contemporary poets\nWrite poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme\nReceive on-the-spot feedback for written work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL\, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize\, 2019 (Beirut\, Lebanon); Rootwork\, winner of the Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry\, 2016; Vocabulary of Silence\, winner of the New Mexico Book Award\, translated into Arabic and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep\, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Former co-editor of the Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art\, she is an instructor for SOMOS in Taos\, NM\, and Hugo House in Seattle\, WA. Plume Magazine recently featured her work-in-progress\, The Changing Same. Plume Poetry Feature: Veronica Golos. She lives in Taos\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, David Pérez.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/reading-deeply-writing-deeply-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230215T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230215T203000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
CREATED:20221215T173958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230123T182948Z
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SUMMARY:Creating Fictional Characters with Personality and Presence with Johnnie Bernhard
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, February 15 & 22\, 6:30-8:30pm\, CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Johnnie Bernhard\nNonmember: $115; Member: $100; Student/Vet/Mil $75\n \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \nWhat separates memorable characters from forgettable ones? What about a character that will make you invest in their journey or root for their downfall? \nIn this workshop\, we will discuss what grabs a reader’s attention and draws them to a character. Writers will develop authentic fictional characters with the building blocks of character development: physical description\, dialogue\, and action. But we won’t stop there! We will explore the history\, psychology\, weaknesses\, and motives that keep the reader hooked.   \nThe importance of the sensitive reader will be discussed as a means of reassuring appropriate cultural representation in character development. \nWriters will leave the workshop with the following: \n\nAn understanding of the building blocks of character development\nTechniques for fleshing out a memorable character\nSuggestions on practicing cultural sensitivity when crafting characters different from yourself\n\n\nAward-winning author Johnnie Bernhard has written four novels: A Good Girl (2017)\, How We Came to Be (2018)\, Sisters of the Undertow (2020)\, and Hannah and Ariela (2022). Early reviews are calling Hannah and Ariela her “best and bravest.” Johnnie’s novels focus on the family\, social issues\, and the human condition. She served as a 2020 TEDx speaker for the Fearless Women Series. A Good Girl (2017) was a finalist in literary fiction\, Kindle Book Awards. Her second novel\, How We Came to Be (2018)\, received the Summerlee Book Prize\, HM.  Her third novel\, Sisters of the Undertow (2020)\, was selected for discussion at the AWP  Conference\, the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, and the Southern Book Festival/Humanities Tennessee. Named “Best of the University Presses\, 100 Books” by the Association of University Presses\, it also received First Place in the Press Women of Texas Communications Contest. All her novels are in the permanent collection of the Texas Center for the Book.  Johnnie was a 2020 TEDx speaker for the Fearless Women Series. Read an interview with Johnnie Bernhard on Texas settings and universal themes. Follow Johnnie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JABernhard\nwww.johnniebernhardauthor.com \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/creating-fictional-characters-with-personality/
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:20230207T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260524T003059
CREATED:20230106T202544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230206T231727Z
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SUMMARY:Diving into the Weird with Leticia Urieta
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, February 7\, 14\, 21\, 28 & March 7\, 14\, 2023\, 6:30pm-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Leticia Urieta\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \nClass Full. Email joshua@geminiink.org to add your name to the Wait List. \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nAre you a storyteller? Have you ever considered how to push the boundaries of what storytelling could be? Ever wondered what blending genres of horror\, folktales and traditional stories\, as well as magical imaginings\, could mean for your work? In this generative writing workshop for adults 16+\, we will explore short stories\, poems and hybrid pieces that unlock the strange\, the magical\, the grotesque\, and the beautiful that we find in our everyday lives. You will have the opportunity to find the weird in the ordinary\, explore traditional stories and urban legends\, and reimagine realities. \nWho should take this class? Storytellers of all levels interested in poetry\, prose and genre-bending work who are eager to write about the weird. \nClass Participants will:\n \n\nDraft one or more new pieces based on sample readings\, class discussion\, and writing exercises.\nGain new insights into a diverse range of genres\, from horror to speculative imaginings\, to apply to their future writing.\nCome away with an expanded knowledge of contemporary genres.\nReceive feedback on your stories\, as well as suggestions on where to submit and share your work.\n\n\nLeticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin\, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and the Regional Program Manager of Austin Bat Cave\, a literary community serving students in the Austin area\, as well as the co-director of Barrio Writers Austin and Pflugerville\, a free creative writing program for youth. Leticia is also a freelance writer. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Chicon Street Poets\, Lumina\, The Offing\, Kweli Journal\, Medium\, Electric Lit\, and others. Her chapbook\, The Monster\, was published in 2018 by LibroMobile Press. Her hybrid collection\, Las Criaturas\, was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters and is out now from FlowerSong Press.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/diving-into-the-weird-with-leticia-urieta/
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Undressing the Secrets to Writing About the Erotic in Poetry with John Olivares Espinoza
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, February 4 & 11\, 10am-12pm\, CST\, hybrid (via Zoom and in-person)\nInstructor: John Olivares Espinoza\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75\n \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \n\nWould you like to have a sexy poem for that special someone by Valentine’s Day? Or maybe you’d like to gift it to yourself? \nThis course will focus on how to write poetry about love\, eroticism\, and sex without crossing into cheesy\, hackneyed\, and pornographic red zones. Through examination of poetry ranging from ancient Greece to the best contemporary pieces\, we will study techniques poets use to create erotic imagery with skill and taste—without leaving out the spice– and use these tools to generate an original poem. Participants will receive constructive critique on their poems focused on how to apply and reinforce the techniques studied to capture love\, desire\, heartbreak\, or sex in an exciting and fresh way.  \nThe takeaways from this course: \n\nExperience breaking apart poems in order to collect techniques\, strategies\, and moves to use in your own work\nA selection of writing prompts to continue your momentum after the course\nA fully developed poem by Valentine’s Day\n\nWho is this workshop for? \nThis workshop is designed for writers of all skill levels. Prose writers are welcome. Given the nature of the subject matter and language used\, we suggest this workshop for participants 18 years or older. \nGet to know John ahead of his class at his Writer’s Desk.\n\nJohn Olivares Espinoza has degrees in creative writing from the University of California\, Riverside (BA) and Arizona State University (MFA). His poetry collection\, The Date Fruit Elegies\, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Other honors include a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, a Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans\, and first prize in the Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest. John’s poetry has appeared in Air/Light Magazine\, Alta Journal\, American Poetry Review\, New Letters\, ZYZZYVA\, and various anthologies. Follow Espinoza on Twitter @JohnEspinoza\, and Instagram @thepoetjohnespinoza. \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/writing-the-erotic-in-poetry/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Wendy Barker 80th Birthday Celebration & Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join Gemini Ink and our San Antonio writing community for an unforgettable birthday bash in honor of award-winning poet\, dedicated educator\, and scholar Wendy Barker!  \nHelp us ring in Wendy’s 8th decade and celebrate the launch of her latest collection: Weave: New and Selected Poems by Wendy Barker (BkMk Press)\, at our downtown arts center\, where Wendy will read from her book and join her friend\, prior student\, and fellow poet Natalia Treviño for a Q&A. \nWendy’s latest book will be available for purchase onsite\, and the evening will culminate in a book signing\, reception\, light refreshments\, and even some birthday cake! \nHelp us celebrate this literary moment with one of San Antonio’s beloved writers!  \n\nWendy Barker’s Weave: New and Selected Poems\, is forthcoming in 2022 from BkMk Press. Her seventh full-length collection of poetry is Gloss\, published by Saint Julian Press in January 2020. Her collection One Blackbird at a Time was chosen for the John Ciardi Prize and was published by BkMk Press in 2015. Earlier books include her novel in prose poems\, Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years (runner-up for the Del Sol Prize and released by Del Sol Press in 2009); Poems from Paradise (WordTech\, 2005); Way of Whiteness (Wings Press\, 2000); Let the Ice Speak (Ithaca House\, 1991); and Winter Chickens (Corona Publishing Co.\, 1990).  \nRecipient of an NEA fellowship\, a Rockefeller residency fellowship in Bellagio\, as well as other awards in poetry\, including the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award (which she has received twice\, for Way of Whiteness in 2000 and for Between Frames in 2007) and the Mary Elinore Smith Poetry Prize from The American Scholar\, she has also been a Fulbright senior lecturer in Bulgaria. Her work has been translated into Hindi\, Chinese\, Japanese\, Russian\, and Bulgarian. Poet-in-Residence and the Pearl Lewinn Endowed Chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio\, where she has taught since 1982\, Wendy is married to the critic\, biographer\, and poet Steven G. Kellman.  \n\nBorn in Mexico\, Natalia Treviño is the author of VirginX (Finishing Line Press) and Lavando la Dirty Laundry (Mongrel Empire Press)\, which has been translated to Albanian and Macedonian and published in Macedonia (2021). Her work has won several awards\, including the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award\, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize\, the Literary Award from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio\, the Menada Literary Award from Macedonia and several others. Natalia is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She works as a Professor of English and as an affiliate Mexican American studies faculty member at Northwest Vista College. Her publications appear in Open Plaza\, Plume\, The Southern Poetry Anthology\, Bordersenses\, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review\, Sugar House Review\, The Taos Journal of Poetry and Art\, and several others. Her work also appears in several anthologies\, including Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out (Flowersong Press)\, and Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century (Cutthroat Press). \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/wendy-barker-book-launch/
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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