Discover your creative spark at this full day writing camp featuring energizing keynotes, hands-on workshops, and inspiring breakout sessions across genres. Whether you’re starting fresh or deepening your craft, you’ll write, connect, and leave recharged with new ideas and community. 

Join acclaimed storytellers, poets, and educators as they share powerful perspectives from their lived experiences, creative careers, and work across genres and communities. 

With special guests: 

Sheila Arnold 

Sheila Arnold has a talent for storytelling, a passion for history, and compassion for people. She provides Storytelling, Historic Character Presentations, Christian Monologues, and Professional Development for schools, festivals, churches, and organizations nationally and internationally. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Artists Standing Strong Together (ASST), a source of inspiration, strength and action in the storytelling and artists world. Sheila has been honored as a 2021 MacDowell Artist Fellow, a 2020 Mt. Vernon Research Fellow and a 2019 Hewnoaks Artist Colony summer residence Noted Artist. Sheila lives in Hampton, VA near her son, grandsons, and parents. 

And 

Jen Malia 

An autistic mom of three autistic kids, Jen Malia is the author of the children’s chapter book series The Infinity Rainbow Club and the picture book Too Sticky! Sensory Issues with Autism. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing Coordinator at Norfolk State University. She has written for or appeared on the New York Times, the Washington Post, New York Magazine, NPR, Parents, Glamour, Woman’s Day, and others. She has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Southern California. She is pursuing an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Originally from Pittsburgh, she currently lives with her husband and three kids in Virginia Beach. 

A camp wide Write Now! Session led by Alison Schowe 

Dynamic breakout sessions led by talented and experienced Muse Teaching Artists: 

April Uhrin, Alison Palmer, Hailey Daniels, Synnika Lofton, Amanda Steadele, and Karrie Loomis  

Breakout session like: 

“Poetry: Our Voices, Our Time” 

“Junk Journaling” 

“Screenwriting 101” 

And much more! 

Camp Day 2 for 1! 

Register for One Day – Attend Second Day 2 for free! 

Use code CAMPBOGO at checkout.

Please note: This class or event is in-person and will be held at our center.