News from Gemini Ink
From Gemini Ink:
I just wanted to send y’all a quick announcement about Bobby and Lee Byrd of Cinco Punto Press visiting San Antonio this weekend. They’re conducting multiple workshops and consultations this weekend, all of which will interest SLHW members!
If you or other group members would like to register for any (or all!) class(es), let us know! Keep in mind we have a few available scholarships. For your convenience, I have attached a scholarship form. If you’re interested in applying for a scholarship, contact our University Without Walls interim director, Daniel Torres at uww@geminiink.org
Making Poems from the Right Side of Your House
Level: All
Instructor: Bobby Byrd
We all come to making poems with certain rigid ideas about what a poem is – how it should act out in public. What should these word things do for us? Writing lyric poetry, poems about ourselves and our lives, makes our poems even more susceptible to sentimentality and our personal hang-ups. Lyric poems can end up like children: the only person not bothered by them is the poet. Thus, in our workshop our everyday lives will be the subjects of our poems, but we will let participants be free with their language and their poetry. We’ll try to quit worrying about what a poem MEANS. Let it mean what it means. We’ll have fun and play with the language. Anything might happen on the way to the poem. But always the content of the poem will be our own lives.
Date: Saturday, Oct. 9, 10am – noon
Limit: 15 Participants
Registration Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, Oct. 8
Teachers CPE Credits: 2 Language Arts
Discounted Fee: $58
Getting Published
Level: Intermediate and Advanced
Instructor: Lee Merrill Byrd
Curious what publishers look for when they acquire manuscripts? Or what they see when they see your manuscript? Publisher Lee Byrd of Cinco Puntos Press has been in the publishing business for 25 years. She and her husband Bobby Byrd have developed their own unique vision of publishing. Lee doesn’t always know what she’s looking for, but when she sees a manuscript with a certain quality, she knows she’s found it! This workshop will help you to think more about the mysterious alchemy between a manuscript and an editor, with an eye to helping you get your own work published.
Date: Saturday, Oct. 9, 10am – noon
Limit: 15 Participants
Registration Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, Oct. 8
Teachers CPE Credits: 2 Language Arts
Discounted Fee: $58
Private Editorial Consultations
Level: Intermediate and Advanced
Instructor: Lee and Bobby Byrd
Lee and Bobby Byrd are the founders of Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, TX. The husband and wife duo will be accepting 30 manuscripts (15 poetry and 15 fiction) for 20 minute, individual editorial consultations Each manuscript must consist of 10 to 15 pages of writing. Space is limited; call Gemini Ink to make an appointment.
Date: Saturday, Oct. 9 and Sunday, Oct. 10 by appointment
Limit: 30 Participants
Registration Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, Oct. 8
Required Manuscript: Manuscripts must be mailed to 701 Texas Avenue, El Paso, TX 79901 upon registration. If the pages are fiction, please mark the envelope ATTN: Lee Byrd / Gemini Ink Consultation; if they are poetry then mark the envelope ATTN: Bobby Byrd / Gemini Ink Consultation
Discounted Fee: $72
ALSO … they’ll be conducting a free and open to the public reading this Saturday:
Faculty Reading
Join Gemini Ink for a special Saturday reading featuring faculty members Lee and Bobby Byrd of Cinco Puntos Press and Ámbar Past of Taller Leñateros.
DATE: Saturday, Oct. 9; 7pm
WHERE: Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205
COST: Free and open to the public
Thanks,
Jennifer Herrera
Communications Director
Gemini Ink
513 S. Presa :: San Antonio, TX :: 78205
210.734.9673 p :: 210.737.0688 f
communications@geminiink.org
www.geminiink.org
I just wanted to send y’all a quick announcement about Bobby and Lee Byrd of Cinco Punto Press visiting San Antonio this weekend. They’re conducting multiple workshops and consultations this weekend, all of which will interest SLHW members!
If you or other group members would like to register for any (or all!) class(es), let us know! Keep in mind we have a few available scholarships. For your convenience, I have attached a scholarship form. If you’re interested in applying for a scholarship, contact our University Without Walls interim director, Daniel Torres at uww@geminiink.org
Making Poems from the Right Side of Your House
Level: All
Instructor: Bobby Byrd
We all come to making poems with certain rigid ideas about what a poem is – how it should act out in public. What should these word things do for us? Writing lyric poetry, poems about ourselves and our lives, makes our poems even more susceptible to sentimentality and our personal hang-ups. Lyric poems can end up like children: the only person not bothered by them is the poet. Thus, in our workshop our everyday lives will be the subjects of our poems, but we will let participants be free with their language and their poetry. We’ll try to quit worrying about what a poem MEANS. Let it mean what it means. We’ll have fun and play with the language. Anything might happen on the way to the poem. But always the content of the poem will be our own lives.
Date: Saturday, Oct. 9, 10am – noon
Limit: 15 Participants
Registration Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, Oct. 8
Teachers CPE Credits: 2 Language Arts
Discounted Fee: $58
Getting Published
Level: Intermediate and Advanced
Instructor: Lee Merrill Byrd
Curious what publishers look for when they acquire manuscripts? Or what they see when they see your manuscript? Publisher Lee Byrd of Cinco Puntos Press has been in the publishing business for 25 years. She and her husband Bobby Byrd have developed their own unique vision of publishing. Lee doesn’t always know what she’s looking for, but when she sees a manuscript with a certain quality, she knows she’s found it! This workshop will help you to think more about the mysterious alchemy between a manuscript and an editor, with an eye to helping you get your own work published.
Date: Saturday, Oct. 9, 10am – noon
Limit: 15 Participants
Registration Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, Oct. 8
Teachers CPE Credits: 2 Language Arts
Discounted Fee: $58
Private Editorial Consultations
Level: Intermediate and Advanced
Instructor: Lee and Bobby Byrd
Lee and Bobby Byrd are the founders of Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, TX. The husband and wife duo will be accepting 30 manuscripts (15 poetry and 15 fiction) for 20 minute, individual editorial consultations Each manuscript must consist of 10 to 15 pages of writing. Space is limited; call Gemini Ink to make an appointment.
Date: Saturday, Oct. 9 and Sunday, Oct. 10 by appointment
Limit: 30 Participants
Registration Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, Oct. 8
Required Manuscript: Manuscripts must be mailed to 701 Texas Avenue, El Paso, TX 79901 upon registration. If the pages are fiction, please mark the envelope ATTN: Lee Byrd / Gemini Ink Consultation; if they are poetry then mark the envelope ATTN: Bobby Byrd / Gemini Ink Consultation
Discounted Fee: $72
ALSO … they’ll be conducting a free and open to the public reading this Saturday:
Faculty Reading
Join Gemini Ink for a special Saturday reading featuring faculty members Lee and Bobby Byrd of Cinco Puntos Press and Ámbar Past of Taller Leñateros.
DATE: Saturday, Oct. 9; 7pm
WHERE: Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205
COST: Free and open to the public
Thanks,
Jennifer Herrera
Communications Director
Gemini Ink
513 S. Presa :: San Antonio, TX :: 78205
210.734.9673 p :: 210.737.0688 f
communications@geminiink.org
www.geminiink.org
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