Our Teachers
The Muse's instructors are all working writers and published authors who have taught courses at colleges, universities, and other community organizations. Read our teachers’ biographies and see what classes they are currently teaching.
Alison Schoew
Wordsmith Alison Schoew is fascinated by language. She holds an MA in Applied Linguistics (study which only further fueled her passion for language and dialect), and has taught both at ODU and at The Muse Writers Center.
Some of her favorite moments are spent writing with a roomful of people to a specific cue, and then listening (as they share their words) to the spectrum of voices that that specific prism provokes.
Her aim is to help students jumpstart their writing in a positive, engaging, immediate, and not-even-slightly-threatening environment.
Current Classes Taught
Previous Classes Taught
- 1-Day Creative Writing "Camp" for Adults (Sat. June 3)
- (Summer 2023)
- Armed Services Arts Partnership Write Now! Workshop
- (Fall 2022)
- Armed Services Arts Partnership: Creative Writing
- (Summer 2023)
- Creative Writing Camp for Adults
- (Summer 2022)
- Resume Writing Workshop
- (Summer 2020)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Winter/Spring 2021)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Winter/Spring 2024)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Fall 2023)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Summer 2021)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Fall 2021)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Winter/Spring 2022)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Fall 2020)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Summer 2022)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Fall 2022)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Winter/Spring 2023)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now
- (Summer 2023)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now (Now Online)
- (Winter/Spring 2020)
- Start Writing, Keep Writing... Write Now!
- (Summer 2020)
- The Free and Fun Write Now! Workshop
- (Winter/Spring 2024)
- The Muse Fiction Camp for Adults Day 1
- (Summer 2024)