Writing Hub Events + Services 

Make an appointment with one of our 10+ graduate student writing consultants!

Graduate students can make 30- or 60-minute consultation appointments, and up to two 60-minute writing appointments per week. 

• To make an appointment, go to our online scheduling system. 
• To meet our undergraduate writing consultants, see our consultant information page. 
• To know what to expect in a consultation, see our writing consultation info page. 

Come to one of our Winter Quarter grad student writing workshops to learn more about common writing genres and develop your skills as an academic writer. All grad workshops are 3 hours and combine discussion, reading, facilitated writing/practice time, and content overview.  

The Dissertation Writer's Workshop is a new program from the Writing Hub, specifically intended for ABD graduate students who are in the process of writing their dissertations.

Part workshop, part writing retreat, the Dissertation Writer's workshop consists of 3 consecutive sessions. Each session will entail a 1.5 hour workshop designed to demystify the dissertation, as well as 2.5 hours of structured, independent writing time to help you make progress. We encourage you to attend all 3 sessions, since each session is designed to build upon and complement the previous. But if you can only attend one or two sessions, that's okay too.

Dissertation Writer's Workshop Schedule

RSVP to any (or all) of the Dissertation Writer's Workshop sessions

Writing retreats offer graduate students dedicated time and space to develop more positive writing practices. Each retreat session is divided into focused writing time and time for workshops, discussion, and planning. We offer retreats in both 5-Week and 5-Day formats. To learn more about the retreats, visit our Writing Retreat Information Page. 

Note: If the retreat you want is already full, please come to the Grad Writing Room, which meets every weekday morning (Monday-Friday), 9:00-11:00am. Get free coffee, make progress on your project, and enjoy the community of other grad writers. No RSVP or commitment required, just come and work!

*Note: the Dissertation-Focused Writing Retreat is only open to ABD graduate students working on their dissertations. Other retreats are open to any graduate student working on a long-term and/or high stakes writing project. 

A daily, supportive, and focused time and space for you to make progress on your writing projects. Plus, there's free coffee. No RSVP or commitment required, just come and work!

Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 11:00am, Weeks 1-10.

Learn more about the Writing Room.

Writing Discussion Groups are small groups of graduate students who meet weekly, alongside a Graduate Writing Consultant facilitator, for 8 weeks. Together, they review each other's current drafts and give each other targeted, focused feedback. The aim of every discussion group is that members make progress on their drafts while gaining confidence as an academic writer/reader. 

To be eligible for a discussion group, you must be working on a current draft of an academic writing project. To learn more about the groups, please visit the Writing Discussion Groups information page. 

We are continuing to pilot discussion groups during Winter Quarter. We will only have two groups, both of which are intended for multilingual/EAL grad students.

The Tuesday group is intended for EAL graduate students in social science and humanities disciplines. The Thursday group is intended for EAL graduate students in STEM disciplines. 

To sign up for a discussion group, please read the Writing Discussion Group information page and fill out the online Writing Group application form.