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This Fall... Write with Us, Wherever You Are!
We have a great series of online classes, workshops, and seminars beginning in October, including many all-new craft, creativity, research, and professional development seminars as well as workshops. Our fall schedule features many new teachers from around the country including: memoirist Dinty Moore, thriller novelist Brad Parks, YA/Fantasy novelist Erin Beaty, fantasy novelist L. Penelope, novelist Diane Zinna, novelist/journalist John DeDakis, novelist Michele Young-Stone, and NY Agent Steven Salpeter.
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All classes will be held online, using Zoom. We all hope to be back in person soon, but for now, to ensure everyone's health and safety, we are staying online this fall. To participate, students must have a stable internet connection with a computer or device with a webcam and microphone.
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This Week's Online Classes
Writers Craft
- The Snowflake Method: Turning a Single Idea into a Novel-in One Morning: Saturday, August 29, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Rick Eley. More information
- How to Write True Crime: Saturday, August 29, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Patti McCracken. More information
Songwriting/Youth
- Songwriting for Young Writers: Sunday, August 30, 5-7:30 p.m. Instructor: Skye Zentz. More information
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This Week's Online Events
Celebration of Women Writers in Translation
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August is Women in Translation Month, highlighting excellent women writers whose work deserves greater attention in English translation. Join us and hear Virginia writers and translators share their work and the words of the women who have influenced them, along with some new translations,, with special guest, the Poet Laureate of Virginia, Luisa Igloria. Other readers include: Joanna Eleftheriou, Amanda Galvan Huynh, Sofia Starnes, translator Dr. Afef Benessaieh, & translator Dr. Peter Schulman. This event is co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of Virginia. This virtual reading will be streamed LIVE on our website and on Facebook.
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College/Graduate School Scholarships: Applications Due August 31
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Applications are now open for the Joan Rorke-McClure Futures Scholarships for the upcoming 2020-21 academic year. These scholarships are available to current and past students at the Muse Writers Center to help pay a portion of their tuition/expenses for beginning or continuing undergraduate or graduate study in creative writing. At least four scholarships will be awarded, each with a value of up to $1,000. The application deadline is August 31, 2020. Learn more and apply online.
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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.
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