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Summer Online Class Schedule Announced!
Summer Seminar Sale--All 1-Meeting Seminars Only $35
You'll find our introductory classes, workshops, and studios in Poetry, Fiction, Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, Screenwriting, Comics/Graphic Novels, Storytelling, Songwriting, as well as many great classes for Kids and Teens. Plus we have a great series of all-new craft, creativity, research, and professional development seminars... and this summer, all 1-meeting seminars are only $35!
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Our summer schedule features many super-star teachers from around the country including:
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- YA/Fantasy novelist Erin Beaty, teaching Making Sci-Fi and Fantasy Digestible
- YA/Fantasy novelist Deborah J. Cohen, teaching Writing About Family Secrets
- Novelist/journalist John DeDakis, teaching Becoming a Master Writer, Characterization Through Dialogue, and Writing to Heal
- Fiction Writer/Historian Chris De Matteo, teaching Building Better Worlds
- Poet/Fiction Writer Meg Eden, teaching Revising with Focus: The Thesis of the Novel and A New Angle: Playing with Point of View
- Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa Igloria, teaching Our Poems, Holding Hands and Reaching Deep Beneath the Soil
- Fantasy Novelist Howard Andrew Jones, teaching The Craft of Heroic Fantasy Fiction
- Novelist Jayne Ann Krentz, teaching Finding Your Author Voice
- Novelist Susan Isaak Lolis, teaching Food and Fiction: For the Hungry Writer and First Five Paragraphs: Developing the Character’s Voice
- Journalist Patti McCracken, teaching How to Get Past Writer’s Block
- Poet Suzanne Rhodes, teaching The Poetry Workshop and Innovation from Imitation: Retrofitting Your Poems
- NY Agent Steven Salpeter, teaching Create an Impression: Get Hands-On with an Agent and Pitch Perfect: Strategies to Successfully Query, Pitch, and Talk about Your Writing to Agents
- Former Virginia Poet Laureate Tim Seibles, teaching Personas are Us: Who do you think you’re talking to?
- Science Fiction Novelist David Weber, teaching Keeping Military Science Fiction Fresh and Plotting in a Science Fiction Series
- Poet Wendi White, teaching Giving Voice: A Creative Writing Workshop for Women and Speak for the Trees: Ecopoetics
- Novelist Michele Young-Stone, teaching The Fiction Studio: Tuesday Evening
- Novelist Diane Zinna, teaching Memoir 1: Tuesday Evenings
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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 summer. To participate, students must have a stable internet connection with a computer or device with a webcam and microphone.
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Online Classes Meeting This Week (and next)
Writers Craft
- Writing a Sense of Place: Saturday, April 24, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Susan Isaak Lolis. More information
- Sensitivity Reading 101: Saturday, April 24, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Nathaniel Glanzman. More information
Writers Life & Creativity
- On Writing Grief: Saturday, April 24, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Diane Zinna. More information
- Writing While White: How to be a Voice of Change: Saturday, May 1, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Desiree Cooper. More information
Songwriting
- Making the EP: A DIY Beginners Guide to Recording and Releasing your Music: Saturday, April 24, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Skye Zentz. More information
Writers Research
- A Punctuation Refresher: Saturday, April 24, 1-4:30 p.m. Instructor: Linda Cobb. More information
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Writers Happy Hour (Online)
Writers Happy Hour is Back and Online! Join us virtually for an informal get-together where area writers and Muse teachers, students, and friends enjoy conversation, camaraderie, and drinks. Free registration required.
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Creative Writing INDOC: Putting Military Stories on the Page
Learn everything you need to know to start sharing stories... This special creative writing class is free for all active duty, veterans, family, and caregivers of the U.S. Armed Forces. Free registration required. Teacher: Karrie Loomis.
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Write Now! with The Muse & Slover Library for Adults
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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.
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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 Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the Norfolk Department of Economic Development.
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