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Online Classes Meeting This Week (and next)
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Spring Seminar Sale (All 1-Meeting Craft Seminars Only $30)
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Writers Craft
- Creating Believable Dialogue in Fiction: Saturday, April 3, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Susan Isaak Lolis. More information
- Growing Organic Characters: Saturday, April 10, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Instructor: Jean Klein. More information
- How to Write in the Voice of the Opposite Sex: Saturday, April 10, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: John DeDakis. More information
Writers Professional Development
- Queries & Loglines: Saturday, April 10, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Agent, Steven Salpeter. More information
- How to Submit Your Work to Magazines and Journals: 2-meeting class that begins Sunday, April 11, 1-3:30 p.m. Instructor: Shannon Curtin. More information
Storytelling
- Re-Imagine the World: Dilemma Stories to Enhance Problem-Solving: Sunday, April 11, 1:30-4 p.m. Instructor: Sheila Arnold. More information
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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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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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Poems for Our Living and Breathing I
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This April, join us for a two-part reading and open mic series in celebration of National Poetry Month. This virtual event will be live on Zoom and a livestream will be available on the Muse's Facebook page. There will be an open mic portion following the reading. Please register to attend the live Zoom webinar.
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Come Back from COVID Campaign
Become a Sponsor
During the Coronavirus in-person shutdown, the staff of The Muse Writers Center has been busy preparing for our eventual re-opening. We are re-organizing our library, assembling more comfortable furniture for our classrooms, and more.
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All sponsorships are tax-deductible and all donors will be acknowledged with a thank you plaque on the item(s) or room(s) sponsored. Sponsorships can be made in honor of or in memory of someone special. Credit cards and checks are accepted. You can sponsor more than one item or room, and can split larger sponsorships into payments.
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What's Still 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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