The 2023 Fellowship class is underway and our Fellows are amazing! Muse Opportunities Internships Those selected have access to free creative writing classes and mentorship from professional writers.Īpplications will open in the fall for the 2024 Fellowship. This program is open to any sophmore or junior high school student local to the Hampton Roads area. If you've attended a class, club or event affiliated with The Muse, we welcome you to submit! Currently, submissions are closed for the 2023 Teen Zine, but the 2024 teen Zine will be coming soon. The Muse Writers Center offers our teen students the opportunity to submit to our in-house zine, Musings. The Muse Writers Center is excited to offer these creative writing classes during the 2023 Fall session:įall Creative Writing for Middle School Youth (Saturday Mornings In-Person)Ĭreative Writing for High School Teens (Saturday Mornings Hybrid)Īdvanced Workshop for High School Seniors & Graduated Fellows (Hybrid, must apply) Teen Zine Musings ![]() We hope to foster a nurturing environment where writers of all stripes come together, share ideas, and experience the power that words can hold.Ĭreative Writing Classes for Kids & Teens By offering young minds creative writing classes, mentorship programs, and community events, we welcome young writers to explore and develop their unique voices, improve their craft, and pursue professional opportunities in the literary world. While I go into a weird funk after they leave, reliving these memories makes me smile and will carry me through until our next activities.The Muse Youth Program believes that power, healing, and change happen when creative writing meets community and inspiration. To show our young writers that they too can be published one day, was a tear-jerker moment! This summer we had our first published Thurber camper return and work with our campers! Ellen O’Clover started off as a camper and then Young Docent, teen writer, and is now a full fledged published author. We have dozens of interns, counselors, and now teachers and authors who are past Thurber kids who want to return and share their passion with the next generation. Our youngest writers were fast and furious as their camp is only a half day so we squeezed in a lot in a short amount of time! We shrank ourselves and went on adventures, created maps for our own stories, testing our tongue twister talents, rhymed away, and more.Įvery summer, the brightest highlights for me are the return of past campers. Not to be outdone, our 4th-6th grade campers in July were visited by Nancy Drew and broke out their deductive reasoning and the crime triangle (motive, means, opportunity) to solve The Case of the Missing Music Box! Who knew that the grown up Nancy Drew lives in German Village? They also walked to the art museum, were visited by published authors, wrote suspenseful stories, and laughed a lot at our Town Crier. Many of them have been with us since they were young so the creativity is endless (as is the camp lore)! There were mythical creatures, short form poetry, observation stories, theories about bears knowing how to start fire (yes, you read that right), and lots of other out-of-this-world ideas. Our middle school campers were treated to two walking field trips: the Topiary Park and the Columbus Museum of Art (even as we worked around air quality alerts in June). Nine weeks, 14 teachers, 10 counselors, 64 interns, over 300 young writers, hundreds of pencils and journals, endless ideas, and dozens of new friendships were made over a very busy summer! Thurber Center is now creepily quiet as our young writers head off to school but we would be remiss if we didn’t share some of the highlights from an incredible summer.
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