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Online Classes Meeting This Week (and next)

Spring Seminar Sale (All 1-Meeting Craft Seminars Only $30)
We still have more than a dozen amazing spring 2021 online classes, workshops, and seminars to come in April. You can find the right class for you by genre or in a searchable calendar and register now. Tuition assistance and flexibility is always available if you need it.

Writers Craft

  • Growing Organic Characters: Saturday, April 10, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Jean Klein. More information
  • How to Write in the Voice of the Opposite Sex: Saturday, April 10, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: John DeDakis. More information
  • The Method Writer: Stealing Techniques From the Actors’ Toolbox: Saturday, April 17, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Alicia Dekker. More information

Writers Professional Development

  • Queries & Loglines: Saturday, April 10, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Agent, Steven Salpeter. More information
  • How to Submit Your Work to Magazines and Journals: 2-meeting class that begins Sunday, April 11, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Shannon Curtin. More information

Storytelling

  • Re-Imagine the World: Dilemma Stories to Enhance Problem-Solving: Sunday, April 11, 1:30-4 p.m. Instructor: Sheila Arnold. More information

Writers Research

  • Making Historical Writing Real: Saturday, April 17, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Chris De Matteo. More information
  • World Building: Oceans & Waterworlds: Sunday, April 18, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: John Aguiar. More information
All classes will be held online, using Zoom. We all hope to be back in person sometime in late 2021, but for now, to ensure everyone's health and safety, we are staying online this winter/spring. To participate, students must have a stable internet connection with a computer or device with a webcam and microphone.
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Projects, Passions, and Possibilities Writing Group

Saturday, April 10, 1-3 p.m., Online, More information
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

Poems for Our Living and Breathing I

Sunday, April 11, 5-6:30 p.m., Online, More information
This April, join us for a two-part reading and open mic series in celebration of National Poetry Month. This virtual event will be live on Zoom and a livestream will be available on the Muse's Facebook page. There will be an open mic portion following the reading. Please register to attend the live Zoom webinar. Part I features current officers of the Poetry Society of Virginia: Kathleen P. Decker, Catherine Fletcher, Bill Glose, Cathy Hailey, Henry Hart, Luisa A. Igloria, Terry Cox-Joseph, Derek Kannemeyer, Joanna Suzanne Lee, Kindra McDonald, Jeri Rogers, & David Anthony Sam

Write Now! with The Muse & Slover Library for Kids & Teens

Tuesday, April 13, 5-7 p.m., Online, More information
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.

20/30 Writers Club

Saturday, April 17, 1-3 p.m., Online, More information
The 20/30 Writers Group is a monthly writing group for young adults. Each monthly meeting has a Question and Answer session with a guest writer. Join us as we improve our writing skills while building connections with each other. Free registration required. Hosted by Derek Spohn.

Poems for Our Living and Breathing II

Sunday, April 18, 5-6:30 p.m., Online, More information
This April, join us for a two-part reading and open mic series in celebration of National Poetry Month. This virtual event will be live on Zoom and a livestream will be available on the Muse's Facebook page. There will be an open mic portion following the reading. Please register to attend the live Zoom webinar. Part II features poets of Old Dominion University's English Department: Janet Bing, Robbie Ciara, Elaine Fletcher Chapman, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Luisa A. Igloria, Drew Lopenzina, Kole Matheson, Kelly Morse, Renée Olander, Alison Reed, Noah Renn, Tim Seibles, Tom Yuill
Newsletter_Come back from COVID

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.

Will you please help and sponsor a bookcase--or one of our classrooms?

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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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 Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the Norfolk Department of Economic Development.
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