The NIG Writing Week 27-31 October

On popular demand, NIG organizes its second writing week in 2024. It will be held in the same Monastery, and with a similar set-up, as the first writing week.

The idea

All academics write. Writing skills are crucial to academic success and to the completion of research, including a PhD. Finding time for writing, however, and making that time effective, is not always easy. While a PhD candidate will have many years of substantive training and will know loads of things about loads of things when (s)he graduates, formal training in writing and real reflection on the craft of writing can be scarce. As with all skills, writing skills will certainly develop with reflection, training and focused attention. To this end, the NIG writing week aims to create a stimulating setting where it is all about the writing itself (and not the subject of that writing). Participants will live and work for one week in a former monastery where they can write, engage in structured peer-review on writing and can follow writing workshops. Through its format, the writing week also contributes to the strength of research networks.

How does it work?

The 2024 NIG writing week will be held in a former monastery, Samaya, near Utrecht. Participants stay for a week to write and participate in workshops. All participants submit a writing plan for the week. This can be very short and simple, one page max, bullets allowed.

There are two ideal-typical routes through the program. For some it can be a writing week sec, mostly focused on writing. It can also be a writing workshop week, mostly focused on feedback and workshops.