Literary Events
Celebrating the Creative Writing Community
A few years before the pandemic, a Muse student who had moved to West Virginia called me asking advice on starting an organization like The Muse where she lived. I…
Read MoreInvigorate Yourself and Your Writing at Tidewater Area Conferences this Year
As writers, we are often alone when we create. Characters and turns of phrase leap inside our imagination, and we pour them onto the page or the screen. At The…
Read MoreSpecial Events at The Muse!
Desiree Cooper, author of Nothing Special, at The Muse Writers Center for a special workshop and seminar on January 21st. Very Special Engagements at The Muse Norfolk, January 21, 2023, Award…
Read MoreThe Creative Writing INDOC: A Start-Up Guide to Creative Writing for the Military by Veteran Writers
Members of the United States military are bound to have many unique experiences. Experiences worthy of a book, short story, or maybe even a screenplay. Rather than repeating, “you had…
Read MoreSubmit to the Short-Short Playwriting Project Today!
A play goes through many phases before it hits the page and then the stage. The Muse Writers Center is excited to partner with Little Theater Norfolk and The Norfolk…
Read MoreLast Chance to see “Call of Adventure” Art show at The Muse
Throughout the last year, our daring and dazzling artist in residence Alisha Brown has stuck with us through crazy COVID ups and downs. Thankfully, we are reopening in time for…
Read MoreVietnam War aka “The Rock ‘n’ Roll War”
The Muse Writers Center offers a look back at the Vietnam era through the music we know by heart. After watching the Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War, Jack…
Read MoreChanging the World, One Poem at a Time
What does it mean to be a poet today? Join The Muse and Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria for a three-part reading and conversation series featuring the 2021-2022 Virginia…
Read MoreWelcome to the Muse Bolt!
Hello and welcome to the shiny new Muse Bolt, a blog and semi-regular email newsletter chronicling what’s new at The Muse. We will be sharing writing resources, upcoming and recent…
Read MoreWords Matter: Teen Poets on Poetry as a Tool for Survival
“These poems … remind us that when we are at the edge of any kind of precarity, all we have to consider is flight.” – Luisa A. Igloria, VA Poet…
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