Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/08/2026 - 21/08/2026 12:00 am
Audience:
NARTI Summer Structured Writing Retreat
20-21 August 2026 (09.15-16.15 UK time)
Online via Zoom
This two-day online retreat provides structured and a supportive environment for you to dedicate focused time to your writing projects and keep writing through the summer. The retreat is facilitated by Jo Garrick, who trained with Professor Rowena Murray in 2018. Please feel free to join for one or both days and register using the link above.
Please note, this is not a writing workshop and will not teach writing techniques or critique pieces of writing.
Schedule (both days, UK time):
09.15-09.30 Welcome and introduction
09.30-09.45 Goal setting in small break-out rooms
09.45-11.00 Focused writing
11.00-11.15 Break
11.15-12.30 Focused writing
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Post-lunch goals check-in and focused writing
14.30-14.45 Break
14.45-16.00 Focused writing
16.00 Final words and close
Retreat works best when you:
- Focus exclusively on writing (worry about editing, reading or adding references later).
- Agree not to use internet during the session.
- Define specific goals and sub-goals, i.e. sections of papers, chapters of a thesis, grant applications etc.
- Define and discuss content and structure for writing sub-goals.
- Take stock of your achievements of these goals throughout the programme.
- Discuss your writing-in-progress –> mutual peer support.
Before you go to retreat:
- Decide on a writing project or projects (always have a back-up project to work on).
- Read Murray R. & Newton M. (2009) Writing retreat as structured intervention: Margin or mainstream? Higher Education Research and Development, 28(5): 527-39.
- Review the retreat programme: plan your writing tasks for each timeslot.
- Do reading and other preparation before retreat.
- Get notes, plans, outlines etc. together.
- Download anything you need before you go, e.g. funder guidelines, papers etc.
What you will need for the retreat:
Laptop/PC, data, outlines, notes, good connectivity
If you have any questions about this retreat, please contact Jo Garrick ([email protected])