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Please Give Today!
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Did you know? We offer nearly 300 classes and serve more than 1,500 students (from age 6 to post-retirement) each year. We provide more than $28,000 in tuition assistance to nearly 300 students, and we helped send 4 people to college this year through scholarships. The Muse gives writers a voice, organizing readings, open mics, and writers events that reach more than 12,000 adults, teens, and kids yearly. And we're expanding our outreach to senior living communities, youth, and military & veterans groups--even in this time of COVID-19. Your support will enable us to continue our mission to support the literary community, especially important as we navigate and adapt during coronavirus.
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Great Short Workshops This Weekend
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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Poetry
- Getting Your Chapbook Ready: A How-To Seminar: 2-meeting class that begins Saturday, December 5, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Suzanne Rhodes. More information
Writers Professional Development
- The Nuts and Bolts of Scrivener: Saturday, December 5, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Chris De Matteo. More information
- How to Submit Your Work to Magazines and Journals: 2-meeting class that begins Sunday, December 6, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Shannon Curtin. More information
- Sensitivity Reader Training: How to Become a Sensitivity Reader: Saturday, December 12, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Nathaniel Glanzman. More information
Writers Craft
- Writing Diversely: Saturday, December 5, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Preslaysa Williams. More information
- Bullet Points: Using Lists to Explode your Fiction: Saturday, December 12, 4-6:30 p.m. Instructor: Desiree Cooper and friends. More information
Writers Life & Creativity
- Your Writer’s Life: On Not Losing Your Soul to Publishing: Saturday, December 12, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Diane Zinna. More information
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Winter/Spring Schedule Coming in Early December
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This Week's Online Events
Mike Krentz Book Launch & Reading
Join us as we celebrate the release of Mike Krentz’s newest novel, Dead Already. Mike writes medical suspense that transport the reader into the stressful environment of emergency medicine, where life battles death amid terrifying screams... After a short reading, there will be a discussion and Q&A. This free event will be streamed live.
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Write Now! with The Muse & Slover Library for Kids & Teens
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.
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Writers Supporting Writers: Talk it out, Write it Out
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Don't curse your blank screen again—come vent with us, collaborate with us, brainstorm with us, advise us, and get advice from us on the numerous issues related to writing... This free writers salon will be a melding of minds, where the wisdom of the group is mightier than the single pen. Hosted by John McCarthy
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The Muse Teen Writers Fellowship 2021 application is now open. The Teen Writers Fellowship gives Hampton Roads area teen writers the opportunity to further their skills in classes and workshops at the Muse Writers Center. Fellows receive one-on-one mentorship from a professional writer, and the program is tuition-free. A limited number of fellow spots (8) are available.
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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 as well as the Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the Norfolk Department of Economic Development.
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