Gemini Ink

From Jennifer at Gemini Ink:

CALENDAR ITEMS FROM GEMINI INK:
ONGOING
Registration for spring classes at Gemini Ink is ongoing during February through April. Visit https://mail.accd.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.geminiink.org/ for more information.

WRITING THE UNFAMILAR
It takes courage to create characters whose race, gender, or experiences are different from our own. Participants will study several published pieces to see how each author quickly establishes voice and the story’s underlying conflict. The class will discuss dialogue, the importance of word choice, how to avoid character stereotypes, the value of research, and how to use details to our advantage. Participants are encouraged to submit up to five double-spaced pages of their novel or short story for private feedback.
INSTRUCTOR: Ann Weisgarber
DATE: Saturday, February 28; 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (break included)
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, February 20
WHERE: Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205
COST: $76.50 (an additional $10 registration fee is due upon registration)
CONTACT: (210) 734-9673, http://www.blogger.com/, https://mail.accd.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.geminiink.org/

TALK THAT WALKS: VOICE AND VERNACULAR IN FICTION
Fiction writers strive hard to develop a convincing and compelling voice. In this course, participants will see how everyday speech (vernacular) is central to the construction of voice, and how voice directs certain choices involving narration, point of view, dialogue, style, and structure. To explore this dynamic, participants will complete some short writing exercises.
INSTRUCTOR: Jeffery Renard Allen
DATE: Saturday, March 7; 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (break included),
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, February 27
WHERE: Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205
COST: $81 (an additional $10 registration fee is due upon registration)
CONTACT: (210) 734-9673, http://www.blogger.com/, https://mail.accd.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.geminiink.org/

FROM THE PERSONAL TO THE POETIC
Confessional poetry has been dismissed as therapy or pathological documentation that is effortless writing if not print’s version of exhibitionism. In this workshop, participants will examine the master practitioners of Confessional style (Plath, Sexton, Lowell, et al.) and perform imitation, word-play, and satire, as a way to understand how poems based on personal experience endure even with a fragile skeleton, a broken flesh.
INSTRUCTOR: Rigoberto González
DATE: Saturday, March 7; 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (break included)
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, February 27
WHERE: Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205
COST: $71 (an additional $10 registration fee is due upon registration)
CONTACT: (210) 734-9673, http://www.blogger.com/, https://mail.accd.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.geminiink.org/

FRIDAY, MARCH 6
First Friday Reading: Poet Rigoberto González and fiction writer Jeffery Renard Allen will read from their works. For more information, call 210-734-9673 or visit https://mail.accd.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.geminiink.org/
6:30 p.m., Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa


Thanks!

Jennifer Herrera
Communications Associate, Gemini Ink
513 S. Presa
San Antonio, Texas 78205
210.734.9673 p
210.737.0688 f
https://mail.accd.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.geminiink.org/