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🌞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.

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

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