Workshops and events

The Writing Center offers regular workshops focused on academic, professional, and creative writing. You’re welcome to attend as many workshops as you’d like! Attending group events does not count towards the two session/week limit on one-to-one sessions.

Recurring events

While we’re always developing new workshops, here are a few we reliably offer:

Signing up

You can browse the workshop schedule and register for a workshop through our Events calendar. From there, click on the workshop title to find a description and registration information for the workshop. Most of our workshops meet online, via Zoom—we’ve found that students often want to attend on days when they aren’t already on campus—but we also lead writing events on campus!

For Zoom workshops, click on the embedded link to register. When you complete your registration, you will automatically receive the Zoom meeting link via email.

FYS workshops

If you’re a first-year student looking for workshops to full the requirement for FYS, our events are a great place to start! Each fall, we add many events tailored to the needs of new students, but you’re welcome to attend any of our events.

Collaborations with student groups

We love partnering with student groups! In the past, we’ve worked with ISLA to lead workshops on multilingual poetry, with the Pre-Law society to present on personal statements, with the LGBTQIA history month planning committee to read queer literature, with Books and Beyond to talk about life as a writer, and more.

There are a few options:

• Your club can sponsor workshops we’re already offering and encourage members to attend.
• You can invite us to lead any of the lessons we make available to faculty for in-class workshops.
• You can can invite individual writers and teachers on our staff to attend a roundtable or speak at your event.
• If you reach out a few months in advance, we can often develop new, more informal workshops in collaboration with student groups.

To propose an event, email [email protected].

Proof of attendance

At the end of each workshop, the facilitator will share a brief survey that asks you reflect on what you learned. This reflection doubles as proof of attendance, and it helps you demonstrate to your professor that you were actively engaged in the lesson.

Preparing for a workshop  

We ask that you:

• Arrive on time and stay until the end. Log into the workshop a few minutes before the listed start time. Because the workshop exercises build on one another, we request that you stay for the full duration.
• Come prepared to actively engage in the session. These dynamic workshops require you to participate through both group discussion and independent work. You’ll often get more from the experience if you have a specific reading, research, or writing project in mind—just as you would for a one-to-one session. During the workshop, you’ll have time to apply what you’ve learned to your own writing and to ask questions of the workshop’s facilitator.
• Cancel your registration if you can’t make it. If you’re no longer able to attend a workshop you registered for, you can cancel your registration by clicking on the link at the bottom of your Zoom registration confirmation email.