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Giving Tuesday Next Week: Please Donate
If you're making a donation on Giving Tuesday or any time during the holiday season, we'd appreciate your support. Nonprofits everywhere have struggled financially during the pandemic, and The Muse is no exception. We're trying to raise $20,000 before the end of the year.
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Did you know? We offer nearly 300 classes and serve more than 1,500 students (from age 6 to post-retirement) each year. We provide more than $28,000 in tuition assistance to nearly 300 students, and we helped send 4 people to college this year through scholarships. The Muse gives writers a voice, organizing readings, open mics, and writers events that reach more than 13,000 adults, teens, and kids yearly. And we're expanding our outreach to senior living communities, youth, and military & veterans groups--even in this time of COVID-19. Your support will enable us to continue our mission to support the literary community, especially important as we continue to adapt during coronavirus.
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Classes Starting After Thanksgiving: Register Now!
Writers Craft
- Creating Believable Dialogue in Fiction: Saturday, December 4, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Susan Isaak Lolis. More information
- Making Sci-Fi and Fantasy Digestible: Saturday, December 11, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Erin Beaty. More information
- Writing About Family: Saturday, December 11, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Deborah J. Cohan. More information
Writers Research
- Writing the Universe Outside Our Galaxy: Saturday, December 4, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: John Aguiar. More information
Writers Professional Development
- How to Submit Your Work to Magazines and Journals: 2-meeting class beginning Sunday December 5, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Shannon Curtin. More information
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All classes will be held online, using Zoom. We all hope to be back in person next year, but for now, to ensure everyone's health and safety during the Delta-variant surge, we are staying online this fall. To participate, students must have a stable internet connection with a computer or device with a webcam and microphone.
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Online & In-Person Events
Write Now! with The Muse & Slover Library for Adults
Are you looking for a little inspiration? Come on down (virtually), join us and Write Now! A talented and qualified Muse teacher will lead you through an easy, fun, and creative workshop full of writing prompts and creative sharing. Free registration required.
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Teen Writers Club
Join us for a bi-weekly, virtual social club for teens to chat about writing and write together! Free registration required.
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Writers Zoom Meet-Up
Join us for our monthly Writers Zoom Meet-Up, an informal get-together where writers from anywhere in the world enjoy conversation, camaraderie, and discussion about what we're working on. Breakout rooms by genre will be available. Let's get together and build connections with other writers and learn more about our craft from each other. Zoom registration required.
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Projects, Passions, and Possibilities Writing Group
A roundtable discussion open to all writers and generated by the interests of the participants to exchange and spread information. Free registration required. Hosted by author, Fran Ward
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Patchwork Party: A Creative Play-Session for Writers, Artists and Musicians
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In our modern world of social media and rapid sharing, it’s hard to avoid imposter syndrome and the feeling that our art is only valid once it’s been “liked” and commented on by the public. At Patchwork Party, we invite you to grab some simple art supplies, headphones, and notebook and give your internal and external critics the day off as we engage the spontaneous side of our creativity. Free registration required. Hosted by Skye Zentz.
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High School Sophomores & Juniors... Be a Teen Fellow!
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The Muse Writers Center is now taking application for our 2022 Teen Writers Fellowship! Any sophomore or junior student who lives in the greater Tidewater/Hampton Roads area is encouraged to apply. The fellows selected will receive 25 creative writing classes and workshops, 4 mentorship sessions with a professional writer, and have the chance to pitch to literary agents at the Hampton Roads Writers Conference. All at no cost to the fellow! Deadline to apply is January 3, 2022.
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Thanksgiving Hours
Come Write with us on Saturday, Nov. 27!
The Muse Writers Center will be closed to the public on Wednesday & Thursday, November 24 & 25 so our staff can enjoy Thanksgiving.
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We will be Open on Saturday, November 27. If you need a place to get away from out-of-town company, come and write with us from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. for our 6th Annual Just Write Saturday!
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Due to updated CDC, state, and city guidance, The Muse has changed some policies in order to best protect our amazing community. When you visit, please abide by our guidelines.
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- The Muse Writers Center's physical space is open for people to write, meet others, and learn more about The Muse four days a week: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursday from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. See our Locations, Hours, & Directions page for more information.
- You must be vaccinated (those 12 and older) to enter The Muse's physical space. You are required to wear a mask upon entering. Once inside, if you are in a room by yourself, you may remove your mask. But if two or more are gathered in one room or public space, you must wear a mask.
- The Muse has installed is installing an iWave-R air purification system that uses needlepoint bipolar ionization (NPBI) cold plasma technology to sanitize the air, killing viruses, bacteria, and mold.
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Come Back from COVID Campaign
Become a Sponsor
During the Coronavirus in-person shutdown, the staff of The Muse Writers Center has been busy preparing for our eventual re-opening. We are re-organizing our library, assembling more comfortable furniture for our classrooms, and more.
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All sponsorships are tax-deductible and all donors will be acknowledged with a thank you plaque on the item(s) or room(s) sponsored. Sponsorships can be made in honor of or in memory of someone special. Credit cards and checks are accepted. You can sponsor more than one item or room, and can split larger sponsorships into payments.
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What's Still Available?
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Stay Connected! Join The Writers Reservoir on Facebook
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Visit facebook.com/groups/WritersReservoir and connect with other writers and share articles, essays and personal experiences about being a writer in the world today as well as information about places to submit, contests, conferences, and more. The Writers Reservoir is more than a writers’ resource, it is a writers’ community! It is a place where writers can share, learn, connect and find that often elusive creative spark. The Writers Reservoir is a Facebook group. All writers are welcome to join and send invitations to join.
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The Muse Writers Center’s projects, classes, and events are made possible in part through sponsorship by the City of Norfolk Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Queen of Virginia Skill & Entertainment, the Business Consortium for Arts Support, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding has been provided by Virginia Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan of 2020 as well as The Literary Arts Emergency Fund, the Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the Norfolk Department of Economic Development.
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