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February-April... Write with Us, Wherever You Are!
You'll find our introductory classes, workshops, advanced workshops, and studios in Poetry, Fiction, Memoir/Creative Nonfiction, Screenwriting, Comics/Graphic Novels, Storytelling, and Songwriting. Plus we have a great series of all-new craft, creativity, research, and professional development seminars.
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Our winter/spring schedule features many super-star teachers from around the country including:
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- YA/Fantasy novelist Erin Beaty, teaching The Advanced Young Adult Fiction Workshop
- Poet Steven Blythe, teaching No Knowledge of Shakespeare Required
- Novelist/journalist John DeDakis, teaching Facing Your Fears and How to Write in the Voice of the Opposite Sex
- Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria, teaching The Poem as Museum of Discovery and Surprise
- Fantasy Novelist Howard Andrew Jones, teaching The Craft of Heroic Fantasy Fiction
- Novelist Jayne Ann Krentz, teaching Writing Popular Fiction for Today’s Fast Changing Market
- Novelist Susan Isaak Lolis, teaching Creating Believable Dialogue in Fiction and Writing a Sense of Place
- Poet Joy Priest, teaching A Special Poetry Seminar
- Poet Suzanne Rhodes, teaching The Poetry Workshop andWriting the Light in a Dark Time
- NY Agent Steven Salpeter, teaching Great First Pages and Queries & Loglines
- Comic artist & storyteller Morgan Sawyer, teaching Comics & Graphic Novels 1
- Former Virginia Poet Laureate Tim Seibles, teaching The Shorter Poem: Sure as a Karate Chop
- Novelist Michele Young-Stone, teaching The Fiction Studio: Tuesday Evening
- Novelist Diane Zinna, teaching The Fiction Workshop: Tuesday Evenings, 10 Things to Take Your Writing to the Next Level, & On Writing Grief
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 winter/spring. To participate, students must have a stable internet connection with a computer or device with a webcam and microphone.
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Upcoming Online Event
Beth Oast Williams Book Launch & Reading
Join us to hear Beth Oast Williams read from her new collection of poetry Riding Horses in the Harbor. After a short reading, there will be a discussion and Q&A. This free event will be streamed live.
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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. The deadline to apply is January 8, 2021.
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Gift Certificates
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Become a Member of The Muse
We invite you to become an annual Sustaining Member of The Muse Writers Center. With your support, we are able to strengthen our programs and outreach. All members will receive a discount on Muse classes, discounts at local businesses, and their own author page on this website. Library check-out privileges will begin when the coronavirus crisis is past us, and for those joining at higher levels, thank you gifts will also be distributed once it's safe to be together.
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Please Donate
If you are making end-of-the-year donations, please consider supporting The Muse today or at any time. All donations are tax deductible and your generosity will help us to continue our mission to support the literary community, especially important as we navigate and adapt during coronavirus: 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.
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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 Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the Norfolk Department of Economic Development.
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