Words 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 Laureate, while hosting Words Matter. Our World Matters. On an unseasonably warm Sunday this December, eight youth poets joined The Muse for a virtual reading…
Read MoreShoutouts and Celebrations: February 2022
This month’s exciting news from around the Muse community: The 2022 Muse Teen Fellows have been announced! Muse instructor Suzanne Rhodes was named Poet Laureate of Arkansas Longtime Muse student, volunteer, and instructor David Cascio’s debut novel FrogFlyer has been published Cover reveal for Muse instructor Erin Beatty’s upcoming novel Blood and Moonlight
Read MoreThe New Muse Brand
New Year, New Brand, New Era of Literary Arts for Hampton Roads. The original Muse logo was designed by Executive Director and founder Michael Khandelwal on the back of a napkin in 2005. Since then, The Muse has grown exponentially — and had expanded even more in 2020 and 2021, thanks to the move to…
Read MoreMany Lifetimes of Memories from the Harbor’s Edge
Harbor’s Edge and The Muse Writers Center celebrate the release of a book three years in the making. A little over three years ago, The Muse Writers Center gave a short presentation at Harbor’s Edge Retirement Community about the wonders and joys of creative writing and how it could benefit them and the members of…
Read MoreCongrats to the 2022 Teen Writers Fellows
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…
Read MoreTeen Writers: Find Your Cohort
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…
Read MoreTeacher Feature: Mike Krentz
Join Muse teaching artist Mike Krentz for Real Med. True Psych. on October 30 from 10am-12:30pm EDT. Stories in all genres often feature medical scenarios or characters with psychological challenges. This class will explore common medical mistakes that writers make, how to correct them, and how to craft medical scenes that serve the author’s plot and character objectives.…
Read MoreTeacher Feature: Lizz Schumer
Join Muse teaching artist Lizz Schumer for Creative Nonfiction 2 beginning on Wednesday, October 13, 7-9pm EDT. This course will help intermediate creative nonfiction writers delve deeper into the craft and magic of the genre through exploring the rich world of nontraditional forms, learning how to choose the right voice and perspective for your narrative, discussing ethical considerations…
Read MoreTeacher Feature: Patrick Dacey
Join Muse teaching artist Patrick Dacey for Writing the Weird on Saturday, July 24 from 10am-12:30pm. In this seminar, we will look at making the most out of what’s on the page. Often, after a few drafts, we still don’t feel fully invested in our own work. What’s missing? Have I entertained every possibility? Am…
Read MoreTeacher Feature: Mike Krentz
Engage your readers from page one with intertwined plot lines presented through multiple points of view. Your characters can be reliable or non, but none of them knows as much as the reader, who doesn’t know the complete story either. Learn how to weave together the story lines and characters in an ever-tightening spiral to…
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