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Give Local 757: Tuesday, May 11

The Muse Writers Center is participating in Give Local 757 on Tuesday, May 11 (all day, from midnight to 11:59 p.m.).

Visit our website to learn more about our fundraiser. If you are able to donate $10 or more to The Muse during this online fundraiser, we would certainly appreciate it, but if you are not able to donate, you can still help us by spreading the word and sharing our Facebook event.

We have Great News! A generous donor has given us a challenge. If we can raise $35,000 in one day during Give Local 757, they will donate an additional $15,000 to our organization. Please help us reach our goal.

Please remember that only donations made on Tuesday, May 11 will count toward grant prizes and our challenge.
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Summer Online Class Schedule Announced!

Summer Seminar Sale--All 1-Meeting Seminars Only $35

We have an amazing Summer 2021 online class, workshop, and seminar schedule that starts in June and runs through August. 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.

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!

Online Class Meeting This Week

  • Writing While White: How to be a Voice of Change: Saturday, May 1, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Desiree Cooper. More information
Our summer schedule features many super-star teachers from around the country including:
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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Write Now! with The Muse & Slover Library for Adults

Tuesday, April 27, 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.

Poetry on the Pavement Submission Deadline

Sunday, May 9 at midnight, More information
Submit to a great new project by Norfolk Arts. Poetry on the Pavement aims to celebrate and acknowledge Norfolk poets. Approximately 20 poems from local poets will be curated, made into stencils, and painted on sidewalks and pedestrian pathways throughout Norfolk. Poets who live, work, or go to school in Norfolk will be considered. If you take a class or teach at The Muse, you are welcome to enter!
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Muse Student Discount for CNU Writers Conference

Saturday, May 22, Online, More information
Join Christopher Newport University for their very first virtual Writers Conference, sponsored in part by The Muse. This one-day event includes various workshops and a panel discussion and offers an opportunity for writers to learn from agents, editors, publishers, the best of authors, poets, professional teachers, and each other. Muse students receive a discounted registration fee of only $50! This conference will be presented online via Zoom.
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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.

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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Stay Connected! Join The Writers Reservoir on Facebook

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.
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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