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Fall 2023 Class Schedule Announced!
In-Person, Online, & Hybrid Classes
- In In-person classes, everyone will meet at our physical center.
- Hybrid classes are where it's your choice whether to attend In-Person or through Zoom each class meeting. We have installed an excellent hybrid system to ensure both In-Person and Zoom students have the same great experience. The instructor will host the class in a physical Muse classroom.
- Online classes meet over Zoom; you can take them from anywhere.
What Should You Take Next?
In most of our genre areas, we have created a "#3" and "#2" class that comes in between the "#1" class-level and the workshop-level. If you don't see a higher-level class in your genre, then it's fine to move to the workshop-level. If you are already in the workshop-level, it's fine to stay with your teacher or explore other teachers or genres.
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In Addition to Our Regular Classes, Teachers from Around the Country Are Offering:
- Internationally acclaimed Novelist Erin Beaty, teaching The Fiction Workshop and Talking Heads
- Award-winning Novelist Cassandra Clarke, teaching Creative Writing for Beginners, Science Fiction & Fantasy Workshop, Creating a Magic System, and The Business of Publishing
- Memoirist Deborah J. Cohan, teaching Writing About Caregiving
- NY Literary Agent Jessica Errera, teaching Advice from an Agent on Your Path to Publication
- Former Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria, teaching Writing Poems in a Burning World
- New York Times-bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz, teaching Discover Your Core Story, Explore the Secrets of Genre, and Find Your Lane
- Novelist Susan Isaak Lolis, teaching Creating a Sense of Place and Worldbuilding
- Award-winning Children's Book author Jen Malia, teaching Writing Children's Books (Workshop)
- Award-winning Novelist Leslye Penelope, teaching Building a World Around Your Characters & Plot and Fantasy Worldbuilding
- Arkansas Poet Laureate Suzanne Rhodes, teaching The Poetry Workshop
- Former Virginia Poet Laureate Tim Seibles, teaching Once Upon a Time: Writing Narrative Poems
- Award-Winning Author/Editor Kathleen Volk Miller, teaching Healing through Writing
- Award-Winning Novelist Michele Young-Stone, teaching The Fiction Studio and Celebrating the Literary Witch in You
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Free In-Person, Online, & Hybrid Events
Writers Coffee Break
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Friday, September 1, 10 a.m.-Noon, In-Person at Cafe Stella Ghent, More information
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Join us for our monthly 1st Friday Writers Coffee Breaks at Cafe Stella in Ghent. At these informal get-togethers, area writers and Muse teachers, students, and friends enjoy conversation and camaraderie over a (perhaps much needed) coffee break. This month's hosts: Michael Khandelwal and Tom Yuill. We look forward to seeing your faces!
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PechaKucha Night at 757 Makerspace
Join The Muse and 757 Makerspace for our monthly PechaKucha Night. The PechaKucha 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It's non-stop and you've got 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way. Register to present, but all are welcome to attend.
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Queer Writers Meet-up at Eleanor's NFK
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Saturday, September 2, 10-11 a.m., In-Person at Eleanor's Books Norfolk, More information
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Calling all queer writers! Join us every first Saturday in person at Eleanor's Norfolk from 10-11 a.m. This is a space to meet up with other local creatives, meet new friends, and talk all things writing.
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12 Hour Drawing Marathon
The 757 Comic Cartoon Creators are getting to together to do a 12 hour drawing marathon. Feel free to stop by and join in or just learn about the local indie creators in Hampton Roads area!
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Writers Zoom Meet-Up
Join The Muse on the first Tuesday of each month 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.
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The Muse Neighborhood Jam
Join us on the 2nd Friday of each month for an evening where everyone is welcome to make music, sing, read, laugh, or just hang out and listen. This is not an open mic with a sign-up list. We'll alternate between individual-led and collaborative performance and pure unplugged jams. Anyone is welcome... from beginners to professionals, whether you like to play an instrument or just listen, sing or be sung to, read your work or hear great stories and poems. Hosted by Dan Duke.
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Show & Grow Your Prose
Join The Muse and Hampton Roads Writers for Show and Grow Your Prose. Presenters will read 10 minutes of their material, which will be followed by another ten minutes of feedback from our guest critiquers Dennis Bounds and Michael Khandelwal. Reading slots are limited, and deadline to submit is Sept. 9 at 3 p.m. Non-presenting audience members are both welcome and encouraged to attend. Material is displayed on the auditorium screen so everyone can read along.
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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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Gathering Magic: A Fantasy Writers Group
Come join us for our monthly fantasy writers gathering. Some writing, come critique, some craft talk, some camaraderie with other fantasy writers--those of us who revel in wardrobe doors and rabbit holes, who would rather work on inventing a language than learning French, who long for something this world doesn't offer. Hosted by Leigh Kenyon.
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Teen Writers Club
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Monday, September 11, 6-8 p.m., In-Person at The Muse and Hybrid, More information
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Are you a teen? Do you like writing? Then join us at The Muse for the Teen Writers Club! This casual meet-up is part social hangout and part writing. The club is open to all teens with an interest in any creative writing form, including songwriting, comics, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and anything else word related. You don't need to be a Muse student to participate.
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College & Grad School Scholarships
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If you are a current or former Muse student starting or continuing undergraduate or graduate education in creative writing, you are welcome to apply for one of our Joan Rorke-McClure Futures Scholarships. The deadline to apply is August 31, 2023. Please complete the online form to apply.
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Register Now for the Hampton Roads Writers Conference: Nov. 9-11, 2023
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Voted Best Writers Conference in the State!
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Scholarships Available from HRW
The Hampton Roads Writers Conference is live and in-person this year, November 9-11 in Virginia Beach. Now in its 15th year, the conference features 1 evening plus 2 full days of workshops, 2 best-selling keynoters (Dani Pettrey & Amy Collins), 2 first-ten-lines critique sessions, 50+ workshops during 10 breakout sessions, ten-minute agent pitches, cash prize contests for short fiction, short nonfiction, and poetry, complimentary 90-minute cocktail social, 2-hour open mic. Registration includes 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, refreshments throughout the day, a meet and greet with complimentary hors d'oeuvres, a cocktail social (cash bar) with complimentary heavy hors d'oeuvres, the opportunity to enter all the writing contests, the opportunity to present at an open mic, entrance to all the sessions, and the opportunity to pitch to 2 literary agents.
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The Muse is a proud sponsor of the conference, and we will be there! Please register today... If you are a Muse student, you are eligible for the HRW Member rate (just write "Muse student" in the comments box on the registration page and they will refund you the difference, or just become an HRW member and support another great local literary organization). They also have scholarships if you need a little help affording the conference. Learn More.
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Come to The Muse and Write
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..
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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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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, the Business Consortium for Arts Support, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the WeTransfer Creative Hubs Grant. 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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