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Screenwriting Workshop With The Muse & ASAP
Screenwriting Workshop With The Muse & ASAP
Everyone's got a story to tell and the screenwriter is the one who breathes life into the characters, conflicts and unique worlds created on the silver screen. This seminar is designed to introduce the three-act structure, the use of conflict to move the story forward, and creating compelling characters that audiences will root for. If…
The Image-Repertoire: Solving the Enigma of Desire
The Image-Repertoire: Solving the Enigma of Desire
In this workshop we will read love poems, poems of longing, poems about the love for one’s hometown and other objects of affection, and we will generate a series of prompts that we can use during and after the workshop to further reveal and develop our associative image-repertoires of desire. In the straight-talk of poetry…
Screenwriting Workshop With The Muse
Screenwriting Workshop With The Muse
Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP) (asapasap.org) Please complete this after every outreach class meeting: https://the-muse.org/muse-teacher-end-of-outreach-form/
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Writing While White: How to be a Voice of Change
Writing While White: How to be a Voice of Change
These are confusing times to be a white writer with inclusive intentions. How do you address diversity in your work? What do you have permission to write about? How do you create realistic nonwhite characters? How do you be an ally when white voices are subject to so much scrutiny? This session will be a…
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Poetry on the Pavement Submission Deadline
Poetry on the Pavement Submission Deadline
Submit to a great new project by Norfolk Arts Poetry on the Pavement aims to celebrate and acknowledge Norfolk poets. The project will engage the senses and emotions of pedestrians, with the potential to create moments of joy, empathy, and reflection. Approximately 20 poems from local poets will be curated, made into stencils, and painted…
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Give Local 757 – 24 Hour Webinar: Please Give and Join Us Live!
Give Local 757 – 24 Hour Webinar: Please Give and Join Us Live!
Thank you to everyone who donated! You are all amazing! Stay tuned to our website's Give Local page for final results. All-Day Webinar & Livestream To celebrate Give Local Day, we are hosting a 24-Hour Webinar. Join us for the first ever Give Local 757 Muse-A-thon featuring literary programming, including writing workshops, games, and many interviews…
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LRNow and The Muse: Nature Journaling Workshop
LRNow and The Muse: Nature Journaling Workshop
This free virtual workshop, via Zoom, will help you step up from note-taking to incorporating a little creative writing in your nature journal to go along with your sketches. The Muse instructor, Kindra McDonald will introduce you to the work of poets who write primarily about the natural world. She will help you learn to listen…
20/30 Writers Club
20/30 Writers Club
The 20/30 Writers Group is a writing group for young adults sponsored by The Muse Writers Center in Ghent, Norfolk. Each monthly meeting has a Question and Answer session with a guest writer who will give writing advice, lessons, and prompts. Join us as we improve our writing skills while building connections with each other!…
The Bookends of Poetry: The Inspiration for the Beginning and the Musical End
The Bookends of Poetry: The Inspiration for the Beginning and the Musical End
Learn about poetry from the award winning poet and educator Jose B. Gonzalez. The class is free for all active duty, veterans, family, and caregivers of the U.S. Armed Forces. This workshop and others made possible in part through the National Endowment for the Arts. Register in advance for this Class: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZcofuyvrD8iHdCaCLM5b4upUFpT6... After registering, you…
Military Poets: Words of Honor and Service
Military Poets: Words of Honor and Service
Join us for Saturday May 15, 2021 for a special virtual event. The Muse Writers Center and Armed Services Arts Partnership welcomes veterans and accomplished poets: Steven Blythe, Bill Glose, Libby Kurz, and Tony Mena for an evening of readings and discussions. Award winning poet and educator will moderate the discussion. This is a free…
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Stories We Bear: A Multigenre AAPI Author Panel & Reading
Stories We Bear: A Multigenre AAPI Author Panel & Reading
In honor of May 2021 Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, The Muse Writers Center is proud to present: Stories We Bear: What We Endure(d), How we Transform, How We Carry Forward Two Linked Multi-Genre Events Panel (3:00-4:00 PM) and Reading (5:00-6:00 PM) ... This free event will be held live over Zoom…
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Spring Student Reading #1
Spring Student Reading #1
Join The Muse in celebrating the work of our Winter/Spring 2021 students as they share their writing from the past session! This event will be held via Zoom webinar. Register to PARTICIPATE as a reader (only open to students who have taken a Muse class, workshop, or seminar during the winter/spring 2021 session) Register to…
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Christopher Newport University’s Virtual Writers Conference
Christopher Newport University’s Virtual Writers Conference
Christopher Newport University’s 39th Annual Writers Conference Join Christopher Newport University for their very first virtual Writers Conference, sponsored in part by The Muse Writers Center. This one-day event includes various workshops and a panel discussion and offers an opportunity for writers to learn from agents, editors, publishers, the best of authors, poets, professional teachers,…
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The Word Online
The Word Online
The Word is in collaboration with Zeiders American Dream Theater, The Muse Writers Center, Hampton Roads Writers, and Tidewater Writers. The Word welcomes diverse voices and fans of poetry, spoken word, and all forms of creative writing. We encourage all ages and backgrounds to come together and share in the mutual adoration of words. The…
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Spring Student Reading #2
Spring Student Reading #2
Join The Muse in celebrating the work of our Winter/Spring 2021 students as they share their writing from the past session! This event will be held via Zoom webinar. Register to PARTICIPATE as a reader (only open to students who have taken a Muse class, workshop, or seminar during the winter/spring 2021 session) Register to…
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Spring Student Reading #3
Spring Student Reading #3
Join The Muse in celebrating the work of our Winter/Spring 2021 students as they share their writing from the past session! This event will be held via Zoom webinar. Register to PARTICIPATE as a reader (only open to students who have taken a Muse class, workshop, or seminar during the winter/spring 2021 session) Register to…
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Innovation from Imitation: Retrofitting Your Poems
Innovation from Imitation: Retrofitting Your Poems
This workshop is based on Theodore Roethke's notion that "Imitation, conscious imitation, is one of the great methods, perhaps THE method of learning to write.” In the workshop we’ll look at various poems that powerfully display specific elements of craft, such as form (ghazal, anyone, or poem with an extended metaphor?), style, theme, and more.…
Teen Writing Level 1: Creative Writing
Teen Writing Level 1: Creative Writing
This class will explore the fundamentals of craft and will ground the student in the language and techniques necessary to take their writing to the next level. The class will be a mix of readings, in-class exercises, and prompts. The class culminates in a reading which friends and family are invited to attend. Students must…
ASAP Comic Book Workshop
ASAP Comic Book Workshop
Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP) (asapasap.org) Please complete this after every outreach class meeting: https://the-muse.org/muse-teacher-end-of-outreach-form/
Armed Services Arts Partnership – Comic Book Writing Workshop
Armed Services Arts Partnership – Comic Book Writing Workshop
Apply here: One Day Workshop — 06/05/2020, Comic Book Writing Workshop (smarterselect.com) Overview: Comics are a magical blend of writing and illustration. But what makes a comic a comic, and not just a picture book? And how do you make one? In this one-off session, we will go over the mechanics of making a comic,…
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Spring Student Reading #1
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The Word Online
Spring Student Reading #2
Spring Student Reading #3
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