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Author Advice Club
Join Slover Library and The Muse Writers Center the third Tuesday of each month for a Q&A with a published author! This group is geared toward writers with some experience who are looking to gain insight into the world of professional writing; however, all are welcome to join. Registration required
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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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The Word Open Mic Online
The Word is an open mic in collaboration with Zeiders American Dream Theater, The Muse Writers Center, Hampton Roads Writers, and Tidewater Writers. Writers of all voices, genres, ages, and backgrounds are welcome to sign up to read. You are also welcome to just watch the free livestream.
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Spring Student Reading #2
Join The Muse for the second of three readings celebrating the work of our Winter/Spring 2021 students as they share their writing from the past session. This event will be held via Zoom webinar. Please register to watch the event live.
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Spring Student Reading #3
Join The Muse for the second of three readings celebrating the work of our Winter/Spring 2021 students as they share their writing from the past session. This event will be held via Zoom webinar. Please register to watch the event live.
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Muse Student Discount for CNU Writers Conference
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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Summer Online Classes Begin Very Soon!
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
- Novelist Michele Young-Stone, teaching The Fiction Studio: Tuesday Evening
- Novelist Diane Zinna, teaching Memoir 1: Tuesday Evenings
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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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
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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