📍 Your donation will be doubled… help us spread the word! For every dollar donated on May 5, an anonymous donor will match your gift. Your generosity will help us continue to grow and better serve the community! Thank you! #givelocal757
✍️ In the past three years, we provided artistic enrichment to more than 42,000 people through the literary arts and creative writing in more than 2,600 public events, classes, and outreach programs
✨ Please donate on Tuesday, May 5 (midnight-midnight) at the-muse.org
♥️ This year during Give Local 757, The Muse is asking for your donation of $10 or more to help fund our expanding outreach programs that combine the benefits of creative writing with healing.
📅 Join us this week in literary community -- whether you're looking for a low-stakes space to get some writing done, or for a way to engage meaningfully with other writers and their work, we have an event for you.
⚡️ This is a PAID position; and we can offer students credit with their university and will work with you and your advisor/department chair/team to fulfill the requirements of a for-credit internship.
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✍️ Week 2 of National Poetry Month prompts and reading recommendations from Muse Librarian Charles ⚡️ Remember, you can get 50% off of our spring poetry classes by using code poetry26 at checkout 📖
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✍️ Celebrate National Poetry Month with curated poetry prompts by Head Librarian and poet, Charles Rhodes. All April long, enjoy his inspiring prompts, explore his recommended poetry book from The Muse Library, and take 50% off all spring poetry classes with code poetry26 at checkout! 📖
📖Celebrate Poetry Month with an afternoon of powerful voices, live readings, & community connection:
⚡️Feat. Synnika A. Lofton, Daniel Pravda, Tonie Sheeley, & Greg Lee, this event marks the public release of Synnika Lofton’s Dear Young People and Blues Man on a Tight-Rope.
🌺 Experience a blend of meditation, reflective journal writing, meaningful sharing, and practical insights into applying Reiki principles beyond the healing table. ✍️
Saturday, April 11, 2-5pm at Complementary Sound and Wellness Center.
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✍️Are you looking for a dynamic and immersive way to bring your stories to life? In this class, we'll use sociodrama—a powerful action method, to step into the shoes of our characters & viscerally explore their challenges & choices.
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⚡️Tuition assistance is available.
📖 In Conquering the Blank Page, students will explore some of the most common creative blocks writers face, uncover their roots, and experiment with strategies to overcome them. 📕
⚡️ Register here: the-muse.org/event/conque...
"For many cancer patients and survivors, The Mindful Journaling class, led by instructor Lisa Cooper, becomes a lifeline."
⚡️ Read the full about The Mindful Journaling class led by The Muse's Lisa Cooper at Sentara Brock Cancer Center here: www.sentara.com/aboutus/news...
📆 Join us this week to write and socialize in literary community ✍️
⚡️ Check out our upcoming single-session and multi-session classes! ✍️ Remember, tuition assistance is available!
📆 We have a full week at The Muse, and we hope you'll come out and write with us! See our full events calendar at the-muse.org for our full schedule of writing groups and writers' meet-ups this week! ✍️
⚡️ Vote now for The Muse Writers Center in the 2026 Coastal Virginia Magazine Best Of Readers' Choice Awards - we are nominated for Best Specialty School or Advanced Program ✍️
📍 VOTE HERE: bestof.coastalvirginiamag.com
🔮Stories thrive on conflict, transformation, & surprise—and so does tarot.
✍️We’ll use tarot not to predict the future, but to unlock the unexpected. Each card in the deck holds powerful symbolism that reflects emotional truth, hidden conflict, & potential shifts.
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📆 Come on out and write with us this week! ✍️
🌺 Join us for an inspiring and deeply meaningful afternoon to explore how writing can help us move through life’s most difficult transitions. ✍️ Whether you are grieving, healing, aging, or simply seeking new ways to express your truth, this event offers wisdom, connection, & creative encouragement.⚡️
📆 Write with us this week - Join us in literary community for a literary event, writing group, or writers meet-up. ⚡️
✨ Join us next Monday, February 16 for TEARS: Transforming Emotions through Art and Reflective Support.
✍️ This bereavement arts support group offers a compassionate space for individuals navigating grief to express and process emotions through visual journaling and creative writing.
📆 We're back with another exciting week of community events! Join us for a writers meet-up, writing club, or event! ✍️
📆 Check out our writing clubs meetings and social writers meet-ups this week! Writing is better in community -- come write with us! ✍️
⚡️ Join us to celebrate at Daniel Brockington's Book Launch for Fire and Adjust on February 28. The reading will be held in conjunction with the Military Open Mic Night. The event begins with Daniel as our main speaker then opens up for military and family to read! ✍️
✍️ Creative Writing for Young Writers explores the fundamentals of creative writing and encourages each student to find their individual writing voice, no matter the genre (poetry, fiction, comics, songwriting, and screenwriting).
📍 Read more and register here: the-muse.org/event/creati...
📆 Have you been looking for a low-stakes way to write in community? Check out our writing groups and writers meet-up events like Write Now! At Slover Library, the Wednesday Wordsmiths, or the Not Ready for Workshop Writers Club. ✍️
The Muse's physical location will be closed on Saturday, January 24 due to snow. Daniel Brockington's Book Launch has been postponed and rescheduled for February 28.
⚡️ We’re proud to announce that The Muse Writers Center has been nominated for Best Specialty School – Education in Coastal Virginia Magazine’s Best Of awards.
📍VOTE HERE: bestof.coastalvirginiamag.com/education/be...
👻 Ready to dive deeper into the darkness? ✍️ Do you have a taste for telling chilling tales? Time to dissect the techniques that make them unforgettable. 📖 You’ll craft your own spine-tingling narratives, featuring eerie settings, haunted objects, and terrifying characters. ☠️