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Canceled CANCELLED Writers Prompt Party – Thursday Night – July 10!
Online or at The MuseReady to get those words flowing? Join us for the Writers Prompt Party—a one-session, all-arts-inspired writing celebration led by a featured teaching artist who brings their unique creative specialty to the table. This isn’t your average writing class—it’s a joyful, come-as-you-are playground for your imagination. Each session pulls inspiration from unexpected places: a haunting photograph,…
Postponed POSTPONED Mindful Journaling through Grief
Online or at The MuseGrief is hard. Working through grief, and learning to heal can be daunting. However, healing comes from within. Grief and healing have no time limits. Whether you are experiencing a new loss, or trying to make sense of your pain years later, come and learn new ways and tools to heal through loss. Through meditative…
Writers Prompt Party- Thursday Night – August 7!
Online or at The MuseReady to get those words flowing? Join us for the Writers Prompt Party—a one-session, all-arts-inspired writing celebration led by a featured teaching artist who brings their unique creative specialty to the table. This isn’t your average writing class—it’s a joyful, come-as-you-are playground for your imagination. Each session pulls inspiration from unexpected places: a haunting photograph,…
Writing the Gay Experience
Online or at The MuseGay or straight, we all hope to live a full and meaningful life—with all the joy, fear, beauty, banality, and brilliance that comes with it. In this single-session, multi-genre creative writing workshop, we’ll explore how to write authentically about queer life in all its forms: the everyday and the extraordinary, the intimate and the political,…
The Wound of the Photograph: Incorporating Photos into Writing
OnlineThis workshop explores how photographs can inspire and deepen creative writing. Using personal, found, or historical images, we’ll generate new work that responds to the emotions, memories, and stories that photographs evoke. Through guided prompts and discussion, participants will experiment with ways to weave visual and written narratives together. All genres and experience levels welcome.
Self-Discovery through Memoir
OnlineIn this class, we will discover the lens(es) through we which we will look at our lives; we will discover ourselves as a character and learn how to write honestly and compassionately. We will draw correlations between repeated/patterned events. We will attempt to more fully understand the actions of others, which will lead us to…
Canceled CANCELLED Creativity & Madness: The Artistic Temperament’s Influence on Writing
Online or at The MuseCreativity and madness, linked? Writers of the past, Lord Byron, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, William Styron, and William Blake might say, “Yes, indeed.” Some of these lives have been well documented, lineage traced back to secret (and not so secret) mental illnesses. What is the “artistic temperament,” and why does having…
Writing the Wound: Fiction for Healing
Online or at The MuseIn this session, we’ll explore the unique processing journey that fiction allows. We'll examine how fiction gives us the security to approach difficult topics or emotions with the comfortability of a creative scenario. You’ll develop skills in creating narrative distance, channeling vulnerabilities through altered situations, and visualizing growth through your characters. Through writing exercises and…
Canceled CANCELLED Experiential Storytelling
The Muse Writers Center 2200 Colonial Avenue, #3, Norfolk, VA, United StatesAre you looking for a dynamic and immersive way to bring your stories to life? In this two-session class, we will use sociodrama— a powerful action method, to step into the shoes of our characters and viscerally explore their challenges and choices. By using role-play and improvisation techniques, we gain unexpected insights that aren’t accessible…
Canceled CANCELLED Hive Writing
Online or at The MuseHive Writing is a creative writing class that transforms the solitary act of writing into a collective experiment in consciousness. Inspired by the concept of the "hive mind," participants come together to generate a multivocal group text that reflects the shared imagination of the group. Through collaborative prompts, improvisational exercises, and dynamic exchange, individual voices…
Plot Twists and Tarot: Using Archetypes and Intuition to Help Shape Your Story
Online or at The MuseStories thrive on conflict, transformation, and surprise—and so does tarot.In this creative, craft-meets-intuition workshop, we’ll use tarot not to predict the future, but to unlock the unexpected. Each card in the tarot deck holds powerful symbolism that reflects emotional truth, hidden conflict, and potential shifts—exactly what compelling stories are made of. Through guided exercises, group…
Canceled CANCELLED Setting the Scene
OnlineUsing items that are already at hand, students will immerse themselves in the setting of the scene they're working on. This will bring writers closer to their characters' experience, making a richer writing experience.