A Write Day: An Online Writing Retreat
A retreat for focus, flow, and words
What are the aims?
The purpose of A Write Day Online Writing Retreat is to provide dedicated, structured time for writing in a focused and supportive environment. The retreat offers space to step back from daily demands and make meaningful progress on your own projects.
You are welcome to bring any kind of academic writing you are currently working on, whether that is a draft article, a funding application, a thesis chapter or a book proposal. Productivity looks different for each participant, and the retreat is designed to support you whatever stage of the writing process you are in.
We begin with intention setting, identifying specific and realistic goals for the day. Writing takes place in 40-minute focused sessions, interspersed with short breaks to reflect on progress, stretch, and share strategies for sustaining an academic writing practice.
By the end of the retreat, you will have advanced your project and gained a clearer sense of how tomaintain momentum in your writing.
What can I expect?
The programme will enable you to:
Dedicate time and space to progressing a writing project.
Meet new colleagues in a mutually supportive environment.
Reflect upon your own writing preferences and challenges, identifying strategies for addressing these.
How do I join?
Focused time for the writing that matters.
This online course takes approximately 6 learning hours.The course is aimed at researchers at all stages of their careers, in all disciplines, who need time and space to progress a writing project
1st October - 10:00-16:00
5th November - 10:00-16:00
3rd December - 10:00-16:00
Session Format
10:00 - 10:15:
Welcome and intention setting
10:15 - 10:55:
Writing block 1
10:55 - 11:05:
Break
11:05-11:45:
Writing block 2
11:45 -11:55:
Break
11:55 - 12:35:
Writing block 3
12:35 - 13:20:
Lunch (45 minutes)
13:20 -14:00
Writing block 4
14:00 - 14:10
Break
14:10 - 14:50
Writing block 5
14:50 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 15:40
Writing block 6
15:40 - 16:00
Final check-in and reflections