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Show & Grow Your Prose

Join us for Show and Grow Your Prose… in-person at The Muse. Don’t miss the chance to get free, professional feedback on your written work. Presenters will read up to ten minutes of their material, which will be followed by another ten minutes of feedback from our guest critiquers Lauran Strait and Michael Khandelwal. If…

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Show & Grow Your Prose

Join us for Show and Grow Your Prose… in-person at Gus and George’s in Virginia Beach. Don’t miss the chance to get free, professional feedback on your written work. Presenters will read up to ten minutes of their material, which will be followed by another ten minutes of feedback from our guest critiquers Lauran Strait…

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Show & Grow Your Prose

Join us for Show and Grow Your Prose… in-person at Gus and George’s in Virginia Beach. Don’t miss the chance to get free, professional feedback on your written work. Presenters will read up to ten minutes of their material, which will be followed by another ten minutes of feedback from our guest critiquers Lauran Strait…

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MarsCon 2023

Join The Muse Writers Center at MarsCon 2023, Southeast Virginia’s longest running science fiction and fantasy convention. Special guests include authors D. J. Butler, Katie Cross, and Phillip Pournelle; artist Chaz Kemp; musician Mikey Mason; and Muse friends Cassandra Clarke, John G. Hartness, Pushing Dragons, and Michael Khandelwal. It’s the most fun convention of the…

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Show & Grow Your Prose

Join us (in-person!) for Show and Grow Your Prose! Don’t miss the chance to get free, professional feedback on your written work. Presenters will read up to ten minutes of their material, which will be followed by another ten minutes of feedback from our guest critiquers Lauran Strait and Michael Khandelwal. If you desire, your…

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MilSpeak Books Author Tour: Panel and Book Signing

Join the Muse Writers Center for an afternoon filled with a dynamic, literary cavalcade featuring the authors of three recent publications with MilSpeak Books: Beyond Their Limits of Longing: Contemporary Writers & Veterans on the Lingering Stories of WWI by Hampton Roads native Jennifer Orth-Veillon; American Delphi by MC Armstrong; and Salmon in the Seine:…

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Nothing Special: Behind the Scenes and Between the Lines

On the surface, theĀ BooklistĀ starred selection,Ā Nothing Special, is a buddy story between a boy and his grandfather. But neither the story nor the art is that simple. Join authorĀ Desiree Cooper and fabrication artist Bec Slone as they tell how the Great Migration, respect for family tradition, and a passion for using repurposed textiles combined to create…

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Sensitivity Reading Q&A with Nathaniel Glanzman

Sensitivity reading is a little known essential for publishing stories with marginalized characters. In this Live Q&A with a professional in the field, we will explore what sensitivity reading is, why traditional publishers value it, why it differs from censorship and why accuracy matters when writing about all groups of people. Debates welcome! Join us…

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Authors in Conversation: Mike Krentz and Kelly Sokol

Join colleagues, authors, and friends, Mike Krentz and Kelly Sokol, as they sit down together and chat about novel writing from a writer and teacher’s point of view. Watch live on Facebook or join the web seminar. Follow this LINK to register. Questions and comments from the virtual audience will be explored. Brought to you…

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Celebrating AAPI Writers and Creatives: Reading and Panel

Join us in celebrating AAPI Heritage Month in May 2022! Young AAPI and other creatives ~ have you always had a burning desire to tell your stories and the stories of your family/community? Have you sometimes gotten discouraging messages about going into the arts, rather than some other line of work? Join playwright and educatorĀ Amanda…

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