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Loss, Memory, and Mortality: A Mixed Genre Workshop with 2023 Texas Poet Laureate ire’ne lara silva

Workshop Literature Workshop

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In these turbulent times, the world seems filled with tragedy and death. Few have the tools to handle these losses, yet many are expected to ‘move on’ from our grief without having the space to process what happened. In this four-week workshop, we will study grief-focused poetry, fiction, and nonfiction written by ire’ne lara silva, and explore strategies for writing about loss, memory, and mortality. We will apply them to on-theme writing prompts and create an open and empathetic space to discuss loss in our lives. This course is open to writers of all genres, backgrounds, and skill level, 18+. 

WORKSHOP DATES: Saturdays, March 2, 9, 16, & 23, 2024, 10am-12pm CST, in-person at Gemini Ink

COST: Nonmember: $150; Member: $125; Student/Educator/Military $75

EARN CPE’S
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE

ire’ne lara silva, the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, has authored four poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI/House of Song, and FirstPoems, two chapbooks, Enduring Azucares and Hibiscus Tacos, and an award-winning short story collection, flesh to bone. ire’ne won the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction. A new poetry collection, the eaters of flowers, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press in January 2024.

In these turbulent times, the world seems filled with tragedy and death. Few have the tools to handle these losses, yet many are expected to ‘move on’ from our grief without having the space to process what happened. In this four-week workshop, we will study grief-focused poetry, fiction, and nonfiction written by ire’ne lara silva, and explore strategies for writing about loss, memory, and mortality. We will apply them to on-theme writing prompts and create an open and empathetic space to discuss loss in our lives. This course is open to writers of all genres, backgrounds, and skill level, 18+. 

WORKSHOP DATES: Saturdays, March 2, 9, 16, & 23, 2024, 10am-12pm CST, in-person at Gemini Ink

COST: Nonmember: $150; Member: $125; Student/Educator/Military $75

EARN CPE’S
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE

ire’ne lara silva, the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, has authored four poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI/House of Song, and FirstPoems, two chapbooks, Enduring Azucares and Hibiscus Tacos, and an award-winning short story collection, flesh to bone. ire’ne won the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction. A new poetry collection, the eaters of flowers, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press in January 2024.

More about Gemini Ink
Gemini Ink’s mission is to teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life.Gemini Ink’s mission is to teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life.
When & Where
From Mar 2, 2024 to Mar 2, 2024
Sat: 10:00am - 12:00pm Timezone: CST
$75.00

Special Instructions
Gemini 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.

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