Graduate Writing Commons

The Graduate Writing Commons is a weekly writing group is open to graduate students from all schools and departments who want to concentrate on a writing project. (All projects are welcome, from novel manuscripts, to articles, to dissertation chapters, etc.) Since many struggle to reserve time in our busy schedules for a focused writing session, this space is meant to build the structure and the community needed to come back to our own writing projects again and again. The bulk of each session will be devoted to giving writers a quiet, focused space to co-work. Each session will start with a brief creative writing exercise as a warm-up before students work on their own projects. There will be coffee, tea, and snacks provided. 

The Graduate Writing Commons will be facilitated by Stephanie Nebenfuehr and Rebecca Weingart, both graduate students in the Department of Comparative Literature's International Writers' Track. Stephanie Nebenfuehr is a fiction writer, and Rebecca Weingart is a translator. Together, they have created the literary journal TERN.

The group will meet most Fridays, 10am-noon, throughout the fall term. The specific dates are as follows: 10/17, 10/31, 11/7, 11/14, 12/5, 12/12. Any updates or future dates will be available on The Graduate Center's monthly calendar.

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