🌞Summer at The Muse: Play & Process✍️
This is the season to do the work. Summer at The Muse is built around momentum — drafting boldly, playing on the page, and following your story wherever it wants to go. Whether you're starting something new or finishing a long-simmering project, our summer workshops are designed to get you writing generative, exploratory, and productive. Join us!
✍️ 💫Name Your Price Summer✍️ 💫
Writing is not a lonely process — it's actually fun. Come write with fellow writers in a live community space where you'll connect, create, and fuel your work together. Our in-person name-your-price classes let you decide what to pay. From Zero dollars or five dollars to fifty dollars and up, whatever works for you. Every amount matters. When you join a class, you're joining our community.
Dreaming the Miracle: Poetry, DADA, Surrealism, and Avant-Garde Beliefs & Practices
Single 3 Hour In Person Session on Saturday, July 11
Experiential Storytelling
Two In Person Sessions Starting on Sunday, July 19
Poetry Laboratory
Single 3 Hour In Person Sessio on Saturday, July 25
Acting for Writers
Single 3 Hour In Person Session on Saturday, August 8
Write the Body
Single 4 Hour In Person Session on Sunday, August 16
Let Comedy Be Your Writing Accountability Partner
Single 3 Hour In Person Session on Saturday, July 12
The Movie Lovers Writing Session
Single 3 Hour In Person Session on July 18
Design Your First Tabletop RPG – Building the Core of a Game
Single 3 Hour In Person Session on Saturday, August 1
Junk Journaling
Single 3 Hour In Person Session on Saturday, August 15
✍️ 🌐Name Your Price Summer✍️ 🌐
Learn craft from anywhere in the world. Our online-only name-your-price classes are designed for writers everywhere who want to deepen their skills, explore new techniques, and grow as writers — all from home. Name your price means exactly that: you set the cost. From Zero dollars or five dollars to fifty dollars and up, whatever works for you. Every amount matters. When you join a class, you're joining our community.
Writing a Film or TV Adaptation
Four Online Session Starting Thursday Evening June 24
Writing the Wild Woman
Five 90 Minute Sessions Starting on Sunday Afternoon at July 12
Men in Poetry: Voice, Memory and the Uncertain Self
Single Online Session on Saturday, July 18
Your Very Own Memory Remote Control: A Workshop in Memoir and Remembering
Single Online Session on Saturday, July 19
To the Point: Flash Nonfiction, Part 2
Single Online Session on Sunday, July 26
Coverage and Development for Film and Television
Three Online Session Starting Thursday Evening August 5
A Beginner’s Guide to FanFiction for Novice and Expert Writers
Single Online Session on Saturday August 8
Editing 101
Single Online Session on Saturday August 15
Desire Engines: Writing Attraction, Chemistry & Tension
Four Online Session Starting Thursday Morning July 9
Researching Your Novel
Single Online Session on Sunday, July 12
Poetry in Motion: Travel Poems
Single Online Session on Saturday, July 18
Writing About Family Secrets
Single Online Session on Saturday, July 25
Let’s Get this Poem Started: Titles and Opening Lines
Single Online Session on Saturday, August 1
Writing a Shootable Script: Big Stories, Small Budgets
Single Online Session on Saturday August 8
Creating Believable Dialogue in Fiction
Single Online Session on Saturday August 9
Writing a Sense of Place & Setting
Single Online Session on Sunday August 16