Posts by Remy Smidt

Brooklyn-based writer Isaac Fitzgerald returned for a second year to speak to the Muse teen students about his writing career and his memoir, a collection of essays titled Dirtbag, Massachusetts.    “Any fool can confess,” Marlon James said of the book, out in July. “It’s the rare writer who reveals, and Dirtbag, Massachusetts is a heart…

We began the new year with double the amount of Teen Fellow applications we received last year! We’re so impressed by the talented teen writers who submitted writing and choosing only eight fellows to join us for our 2022 program was incredibly difficult.  We’re thrilled to offer a spot to eight talented teens, four of…

Do you scribble lines of stories on your notebooks in class? Do you hear lines of poetry on your drive to school? Do all of your friends think you’re a little too bookish for them?  Over the past years, The Muse has developed a fellowship for teens to hone their skills in a dedicated community of high…