At heart, all campuses are campuses are communities of writers, and our faculty writing programming is designed to support the success of faculty as writers.
Whether you write articles, book chapters, grant proposals, creative projects, new course lectures, or letters to your elected officials, our programming is designed to help you carve out uninterrupted time to focus on your writing and network with colleagues across Mason.
Faculty Affairs & Development and Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) have partnered to offer the Faculty Writers Community, a combination of weekly writing sprints and Faculty Writing Retreats.
For more information or questions, please contact Faculty Affairs & Development at facaffs@gmu.edu.
Weekly Faculty Writing Sprints
This semester, we are offering two weekly writing sprints, where you can join colleagues from across campus to make progress on your projects and build community around your writing. All faculty, at all levels, with any kind of writing projects, are invited. You can join for one week or for the entire semester and know that you have a community of peers who will encourage you, intrigue you, and keep you on track!
Tuesday Writing Sprints: Every Tuesday, 3-4:30pm, beginning Tuesday, September 9. Hosted by Thalia Goldstein from College of Humanities and Social Sciences. RSVP required. These events will be in-person, please RSVP here to be sent an Outlook calendar invite.
Friday Writing Sprints: Every Friday, 9-11am, beginning Friday, September 12. Hosted by Jeff Moran from the College of Engineering and Computing. Click here to join. All virtual write-ins take place on Microsoft Teams.
Register for the Faculty Writing Retreat
This two-day event—co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development and Writing Across the Curriculum—offers an active approach to uninterrupted writing time, a chance to learn from our panelists, and a supportive and collegial community of peers to boost your writing productivity. Participants work on a variety of research and creative projects at all stages of completion.
The January 2026 Faculty Writing Retreat dates will be announced in the fall.