Literary Masters Lecture Series: Old Drafts, New Writing: Turning Text Into Graphic Literature with Octavio Quintanilla

Description

Learn how to transform your old writing into graphic literature! In this two-part lecture, led by 2025 Texas Poet Octavio Quintanilla, we will explore how writers can use new and existing work to create graphic literature—a form that merges text with visual storytelling to evoke powerful, multidimensional narratives. Each session features an engaging craft talk, actionable writing strategies, and a live Q&A with the author.

DATE:

Monday(s), March 23 & 30, 2026 from 6:30pm - 8 pm CT via Zoom

COST:

Nonmember $90; Member $75; Student $63

REGISTER: https://geminiink.org/events/old-drafts-new-writing/

Octavio Quintanilla is the 2025 Texas Poet Laureate and the author of the poetry collections, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024), and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours (University of Arizona Press, 2025), winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets. He’s the founder and director of the literature & arts festival VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio.