Faculty Writing Groups

Looking for support and structure for your writing projects?

Interested in advancing articles, book chapters, and grant proposals to publication and submission stages? ADVANCE and the Northeastern Writing Program are pleased to offer facilitated faculty writing groups which meet weekly. Writing group members meet to share time writing in progress.

We invite full-time faculty of all ranks (tenure-track/tenured/non-tenure track) to participate in this initiative. We also encourage groups of faculty from particular disciplines or units to apply.

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The 2024-2025 Faculty Writing Groups are:

  • All Disciplines
    • This group welcomes full-time faculty members of all disciplines and will meet weekly to create space and accountability to promote progress on writing projects. Sessions will begin with a brief goal-setting exercise followed by 90-minutes of uninterrupted social writing (each person writes alone alongside colleagues). At the end of the session, attendees debrief on their progress and share strategies for common writing challenges. If the group agrees, members may share their writing projects.
    • This group meets on Mondays at 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. via Zoom
    • Facilitator: Emily Avery-Miller
  •  Early Career Writing (Late-stage graduate and postdoctoral scholars)
    • This group welcomes early-stage scholars of all disciplines.  The group will meet weekly to create space and accountability to promote progress on writing projects, including dissertations, book chapters, or academic papers.  Sessions will begin with a brief goal-setting check-in followed by 90-minutes of uninterrupted social writing (each person writes alone alongside colleagues). At the end of the session, attendees debrief on their progress and share strategies for common writing challenges.
    • This group meets on Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.
    • Facilitator: Ariel Gomez
  • Full-Time Non-Tenure Track (FTNTT) Faculty
    • This Writing Group is for Full-Time Non-Tenure Track (FTNTT) faculty who meet weekly to advance writing projects. Sessions will begin with a brief goal-setting check-in followed by 90-minutes of uninterrupted social writing (each person writes alone alongside colleagues). At the end of the session, attendees debrief on their progress and share strategies for common writing challenges.
    • This group meets on Mondays at 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., Tuesdays at 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. and Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.. All sections are via Zoom.
    • Facilitator: Pete Fraunholtz
  • (Re-)Writing your First Proposal
    • A facilitated peer-mentoring group designed to guide faculty writing their first grant, regardless of funding agency and discipline. The goal of this session is that participants can join with only an initial idea, a first draft, or a prior submission and leave with a proposal that is ready to submit! Writing will be self-paced; and information sessions at the beginning of each meeting will cover grant writing fundamentals such as reading a program solicitation, understanding agency mission, project scope, ideation, writing persuasive introductions, budgets and budget justifications, contacting program officers, drafting supplemental documents, red teaming, and giving and receiving feedback. After these brief presentations, participants will write for an hour. Those who wish, may engage in an accountability exercise, where writing goals will be shared at the beginning of the session and then revisited towards the end.  Prior to departing, there will be a short discussion of what went well, the challenges participants are facing, and any questions.  The goal is to demystify the grant writing process and to build a supportive writing community amongst a diverse community of scholars.  In addition, Andrea (who is training to be an ICF certified coach) will offer one-on-one coaching session for faculty who are interested.
    • This group meets on Thursdays at 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. via Zoom.
    • Facilitator: Andrea Stith
  • STEM
    • Intended for STEM Faculty, this group will meet weekly to create space and accountability to promote progress on writing projects. Sessions will begin with a brief goal-setting exercise followed by 90-minutes of uninterrupted social writing (each person writes alone alongside colleagues). At the end of the session, attendees debrief on their progress and share strategies for common writing challenges. Members may share their writing projects if the group agrees.
    • This group meets on Fridays at 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. via Zoom
    • Facilitator: Michael McCluskey
  • Women of Color in the Academy (WOCIA)
    • The Women of Color in the Academy (WOCIA) Writing Group provides a weekly supportive, non-surveillance environment to progress on writing goals. Sessions will begin with a brief goal-setting exercise followed by 90-minutes of uninterrupted social writing (each person writes alone alongside colleagues). At the end of the session, attendees debrief on their progress and share strategies for common writing challenges.
    • This group meets on Thursdays at 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. via Hybrid format. 490 Renaissance Park and via Zoom.
    • Facilitator: Nicole N. Aljoe

Email northeasternadvance@northeastern.edu to start your own group.