What is Two Sylvias' Weekly Muse?
What is Two Sylvias' Weekly Muse?
The "Best New Resource for Poets!" Enjoy Weekly Poetry Prompts, Submission Opportunities, AND a full-series of Zoom Poetry Classes, Workshops, & Salons INCLUDED with your paid subscription!
Discover the ultimate tool to elevate your poetry practice and take your writing to the next level —The WEEKLY MUSE from Two Sylvias Press!
This inspiring paid subscription provides weekly poetry prompts & writing exercises, expert tips, submission opportunities, interviews, FREE Zoom poetry classes, and so much more each Sunday morning.
The Weekly Muse helps you stay accountable, prioritize your writing, and simplify your submitting process. We send weekly info on where to submit your work, including lesser-known publishing opportunities. We also offer a private online community of fellow poets and editors where you can share your poems, ask questions, and find support. The Weekly Muse helps you write more, publish more, and succeed as a poet.
All paid-subscribers of the Weekly Muse have access to our exclusive Zoom classes, workshops, and salons with notable poets, such as The New York Times bestselling author Maggie Smith and Pulitzer Prize winner Diane Seuss, as well as award-winning poets January Gill O’Neil, Jane Wong, Susan Rich, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, and Kelli Russell Agodon.
Note: these Zoom events are NOT open to the general public—only to paid subscribers of the Weekly Muse. And if you can’t make it, no worries—the majority of these events will be recorded and archived for you to watch at your leisure.
The Weekly Muse is a way to keep your writing a priority, improve your craft, attend free Zoom classes and be part of a supportive community—and you can receive all of this less than $20 a month!
—Commitment worries? Sign up, try it for a month. Not your thing? One-click ⏩, and you’re out.
Check out a recent issue of the Muse free of charge by clicking here:
https://twosylviaspress.substack.com/p/two-sylvias-weekly-muse-july-2-2023
What You Receive in Each Weekly Muse:
As a paid subscriber to the Weekly Muse, here are a few things you’ll get each Sunday morning to help you organize your week:
FREE Zoom Classes & Salons: As a paid Weekly Muse subscriber, you will receive access to ALL of our Zoom classes and salons with well-known poets such as Maggie Smith and Diane Seuss, as well as generating new work classes with poet Kelli Russell Agodon, PR for Poets with Jeannine Hall Gailey, how to put together a poetry manuscript with Susan Rich, and upcoming classes and workshops from award-winning poets January Gill O’Neil, Jane Wong, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. And if you can’t make a class, no worries! The majority of classes will be recorded, so you can attend when it’s best for you.
Poetry Exercises / Prompts: You will receive one longer writing exercise and one shorter prompt each week to help you write two poems a week (or more!). These prompts have inspired new poems for our Muse subscribers, many of which have been published. Our poetry prompts and writing exercises are written exclusively for the Muse and are not available anywhere else.
Where to Submit Your Work: Each week we share with you places to submit your work—literary journals, anthologies, and other opportunities. Never miss another deadline as we act as your personal assistant to find upcoming submission calls.
Ask the Editors: Our editors answer your questions on poetry, writing, publishing, submitting, or whatever is on your mind. Never feel “out of the loop” again—as editors, we can offer insider information and ProTips, and as published poets ourselves, we can also address poetry craft and manuscript questions.
A Creativity Reflection Question: You can use these questions when journaling or simply reflect on them as you go about your day. These questions can allow you to find more connection in your work and hopefully, in the world.
Exclusive Interviews with Poets: We ask our favorite poets, doing good work in the world, questions focused on writing, time management, titles, manuscripts, poetic forms, inspiration, submitting, rejections, and advice to help you on your writing journey.
Inspiration and Helpful Tips on Living Life as a Creative Person and Improving Your Writing: The introduction to each issue and the “outro” to each issue give you general advice on creative living and offer insights from the latest studies on creativity, art, writing, etc. to assist you as a writer and as a creative.
Occasional Surprises: From time to time, we give away free Two Sylvias Press publications, including The Poet Tarot, discounts on reading fees, and free Online Poetry Retreats.
An Optional Facebook Group: We provide a nurturing space for you to create community, share poems, and meet new poets on similar paths. We often visit the Facebook Group to respond to posts and to comment on any poems that may have been posted.
Support: As poets ourselves, we understand that sometimes writing can make you feel very alone. One of our main goals with the Weekly Muse is to make sure you feel supported and to help you achieve your individual poetry goals.
Below are a few more reasons to sign up for the Weekly Muse:
The Weekly Muse is *not* curated info, but original content created each week: The information in the Muse is designed to help poets wherever they are on their journey—from beginning writer to published author to writing instructor. All of our content is exclusively created by the editors of Two Sylvias Press.
By signing up, you're supporting an indie women-run press: Two Sylvias receives no funding except from book sales and our products. Your support of the Weekly Muse keeps us afloat, while we help keep you afloat creatively.
The Weekly Muse subscription fee is less than ONE 3-4 hour poetry class and considerably less than a poetry coach: For $3.20 - $4.10 a week (less than $20 a month whether you choose yearly or monthly), you will receive helpful and useful writing information that’s not available anywhere else online, along with a full series of Zoom classes. The Weekly Muse helps you save time as everything you need for your writing week is all in one place. We create everything you need for a successful writing week and send it directly to you each Sunday morning.
There is no risk and you can easily cancel at any time. See how the Weekly Muse can improve your writing life!
Testimonials from Weekly Muse Subscribers:
“How did I not know about the Weekly Muse?! A friend of mine was telling me about how she subscribed to this thing called "Two Sylvias Weekly Muse" and how much easier her writing life has become for her. She said she was writing more and had several poems picked up from journals and anthologies you recommended.
Honestly, I couldn't believe there was something that could make a such a big difference in anyone's writing life, but to be honest, I was kind of jealous of how much she was submitting and writing, so I bit the bullet and signed up for a year no less. I want to kick myself for not signing up earlier!
Each week when your Weekly Muse, not only do have a list of places to submit (and some I would have *never* known about!) as well as poetry prompts (which have already inspired many new poems by me), but just the joy and inspiring content you include. I actually wrote a poem inspired by your "Muse Trivia" segment and Beatrix Potter's bunny—was not expecting that on my 2023 bingo card!
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know I'm a Weekly Muse subscriber for life. It was so satisfying just to pay for the year and know that you'll take care of me all year long. Amazing, Two Sylvias! This is improving my poetry world in so many ways—I'm awestruck and thankful for your press and the Weekly Muse."
~ Lisa B., Weekly Muse Paid Subscriber
“I'm a Muse subscriber (for about four months) and I am loving all of the content that I receive each week. I'm an "emerging" poet and have only been published in a few journals. I have been writing so many more poems because of the prompts and poetry exercises in each Muse issue, and I've been a bit more courageous in submitting to some of the journals suggested by the Muse. . . I can honestly say that this little publication has completely transformed my writing life, and I would be sad if the Muse were to stop being published! I'm on a budget, but it's worth the $18.99 a month--I consider this my "investment" in my poetry life and it's so worth it. I'm a more confident writer today than I was four months ago.”
~ Sonia R., Weekly Muse subscriber
"As a published poet, I'm surprised how much I learn each week from the Weekly Muse AND how much I'm writing again! Getting this in my inbox every Sunday morning is exactly what I need to stay inspired and keep my writing a priority. Thank you, Two Sylvias, for creating it!"
~ Susan L., Weekly Muse Subscriber
"I was hesitant to subscribe to the Weekly Muse because I had never subscribed to anything before, but I am SO glad I took that risk or I would have never known all I had been missing! I am in my 3rd month of The Weekly Muse and I have written more, submitted more than ever and I've made my writing a priority again! Plus, from your prompts, I've had my poems accepted in three journals AND an anthology! Thank you, Two Sylvias, I see the work that you put in each week and I just wanted to say thank you and please don't ever end the Weekly Muse! It's been a lifechanger for me a a poet. With many thanks and respect for all you do."
~ Jennifer S., Weekly Muse Subscriber
