Writing Retreats
Our half-day and full-day writing retreats are a staple of our Write Track initiative.
In support of faculty success in publishing your scholarship, creative works, and research, we host writing retreats that bring faculty together as a community to promote writing productivity, focus, and mutual support. And if you are working on a scholarship of teaching and learning project, you are more than welcome to attend. All scholarship and creative works writing are welcome!
Depending on the session, these community writing sessions include setting intentions and goals for the day, identifying our obstacles to writing, finding ways to overcome writing distractions, and strategic planning to meet your goals.
What a well-planned and well-executed retreat. It was great.
I'm a first semester doc student. I received so much direction and so many great organization tips!
Resources from previous retreats
Writing While Barely Surviving: Re-membering Your Writing Why with keynote speaker Dra. Aurora Chang
Finding motivation and meaning in our writing is harder than ever amidst the global pandemic and everything that has come with it - less time; more care-taking (particularly for women); increased loneliness, anxiety, anger, and grief; mental exhaustion, and poignant disparate effects remain for academics with marginalized identities. By reflecting on the reasons why we arrived to this work in the first place, we can begin to rekindle the fire that once motivated us to write and find new reasons to reclaim our identities as writers.
Writing Retreat Series: Building a Publishing Pipeline 2.0
Blending community-building, an NCFDD keynote webinar on planning and approaches for balancing multiple writing goals and scholarly trajectories, and time for writing and reflection, this writing retreat series facilitated by CTLE Faculty Fellow Sharon Zumbrunn involved opportunities to build a pipeline for those new to this practice, maintaining and updating a writing pipeline, and reflective practices to envision our growth as scholars across multiple phases of our careers.
NOTE: VCU is an institutional member of the NCFDD. For more information on how to activate your free membership, visit our NCFDD page.
Getting PriOrganized!
The summer 2-session writing retreat facilitated by CTLE Faculty Fellow Sharon Zumbrunn helped participants define their writing and wellness priorities and learn practical strategies.
View each session recording below and take advantage of the accompanying workbook:
I have become more productive and more confident, and I have found different types of 'writing villages' and gotten to know more people at VCU. I cannot begin to tell you how beneficial these retreats have been.