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This Fall... Write with Us, Wherever You Are!
You'll find our regular introductory classes and workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Memoir/Creative Nonfiction, Screenwriting, Comics/Graphic Novels, and Songwriting. Plus we've added new advanced workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Memoir/Creative Nonfiction, and Screenwriting. And we have a great series of all-new craft, creativity, research, and professional development seminars.
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Our fall schedule features many super-star teachers from around the country including:
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- Memoirist Dinty Moore, teaching How to Write Funny: A Prose Workshop
- Former Virginia Poet Laureate Tim Seibles, teaching Begin, See, See Again
- Thriller novelist Brad Parks, teaching Thrilling Takeoffs: How to Nail Your First Chapter
- YA/Fantasy novelist Erin Beaty, teaching The Advanced Young Adult Fiction Workshop
- Fantasy novelist L. Penelope, teaching Tools of the Trade: Building a Fantasy World
- Novelist Diane Zinna, teaching Your Writer’s Life: On Not Losing Your Soul to Publishing
- Novelist/journalist John DeDakis, teaching Planning vs. Seat-of-the-Pantsing
- Novelist Michele Young-Stone, teaching two sections of The Fiction Studio, Tuesday Evenings and Thursday Evenings
- NY Agent Steven Salpeter, teaching A Literary Agent Reveals the Biggest Pitfalls Novel Writers Miss in Revision and Pitch Perfect: Strategies to Successfully Query, Pitch, and Talk about Your Writing to Agents
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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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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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