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
Every Friday morning of the semester (9:00am-11:00am), 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!
Friday Writing Sprints: 9-11am, hosted by Faculty Writing Fellow Jeff Moran, College of Engineering and Computing. Click here to join virtually.
Women’s Accountability Group: 9-11am, hosted by Faculty Writing Fellow Sheri Huerta, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Click here to join virtually.
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.
This year’s retreats will be held on the following dates:
Spring 2025: Wednesday, May 28th & Thursday, May 29th. The theme for this retreat is Writing for Personal and Professional Wellbeing.
Schedule
Our schedule for each day of the retreat is as follows:
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Non-Panel Day
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8:30am: Continental breakfast
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8:45-9:00am: Introductions and goal setting
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9:00-11:30am: Writing sprint
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11:30-1:00pm: Community lunch (Horizon 2008) or Grab lunch & Quiet writing time (Horizon 2009)
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1:00-3:30pm: Writing sprint
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3:30-4:00pm: Progress report
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Panel Day
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8:30am: Continental breakfast
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8:45-9:00am: Introductions and goal setting
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9:00-11:30am: Writing sprint
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11:30-11:50am: Grab Lunch
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11:50-12:50pm: Panel Discussion (Horizon 2008) or Quiet writing time (Horizon 2009)
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1:00-3:30pm: Writing sprint
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3:30-4:00pm: Celebration
Registration
Grant Writing and Proposal Assistance
Faculty Grant Writing Support
This spring, the Office of Research Development and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences are offering two opportunities to assist faculty writing proposals. Participating faculty must be eligible to serve as Mason Principal Investigators on a sponsored research project.
Strategic Request for Proposals (RFP) Analysis
Graduate student led teams from English 488-689 (Advanced Proposal Writing) will provide strategic feedback on matching faculty research to a range of proposal solicitations. Be prepared to provide a previous proposal or articles allowing to identify proposal solicitation(s). Appointments will take place prior to Friday, May 16. Selected individuals will be notified by email. There are limited spaces in this program. Selected individuals will be notified by email.
Sign up for RFP Analysis
Proposal Editing
Graduate student led teams from English 488-689 (Advanced Proposal Writing) will provide feedback on near-final or previously submitted proposals in terms of how the proposal meets the requirements of the proposal solicitation. Provide the proposal, and the proposal solicitation by Monday, March 24. For previously reviewed proposals, you could also provide the reviewer comments. Feedback and edits will be provided no later than Friday, May 16. All applications will be kept confidential. There are limited spaces in this program. Selected individuals will be notified by email.