Joana Pais Zozimo, Kate Sotejeff-Wilson, and Wendy Baldwin
Section 1: Physical support and wellbeing
2 Look out! Navigating multiple spaces to sustain the benefits of writing retreats
Rowena Murray
3 Thoughts on folklore
Lucy Hinnie
4 Don’t starve: change the recipe
Jess Kelley
5 Retreat in daily life: integrating writing into work and life
Kate Sotejeff-Wilson
Section 2: Cognitive and affective connections
6 Some kind of writer: the writer spectrum, and a not-magic formula for
development
Sarah Haas
7 Coaching interventions in writing retreats: a creativity boost
Natalie Lancer
8 Adapting the structured model, building capacity, and facilitating your own productivity as a writer
Jo Garrick
9 Different layers of togetherness: virtual writing sessions during and after
Covid-19
Katarina Damčević
Section 3: Social interactions and relations
10 Transferring social writing practices to our communities in Finnish universities
Camilla Lindholm and Johanna Isosävi
11 Becoming a facilitator: finding my own delivery style through
opportunities and challenges
Marcella Sutcliffe
12 Linguistic care work in proximal zones: towards allied academic–editor
critical agency linguistic care work in third spaces
Theresa Truax-Gischler
13 Meetings at the textface: what academics and language professionals gain when they team up and adopt a social writing approach to academic text production
Wendy Baldwin
Joana Pais Zozimo is a senior researcher at Lancaster University, UK, and writing retreat facilitator based in Portugal.
Kate Sotejeff-Wilson is an academic editor, translator, and writing retreat facilitator based in Finland.
Wendy Baldwin is an academic editor, translator, and structured writing facilitator based in Spain.
This book offers a multifaceted perspective on social writing in a volatile, uncertain and complex world. It meets the need to enable women’s capacity, especially in academic settings, to structure their own writing practice and that of others in the community. It expands current research on social writing beyond its core context in English-speaking countries to multilingual contexts from Portugal to Finland, identifying fruitful areas for interdisciplinary research, nexuses of social practice, and strategies for situated social learning through a feminist lens, bringing women from the margins to the centre. As the average woman academic with children is losing an hour of research and writing time every day in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the impact of which will be felt for decades, the book purposefully entwines these polyphonic voices to tell the story of a writing retreat as a space for leadership and empowerment.
Joana Pais Zozimo is a senior researcher at Lancaster University, UK, and writing retreat facilitator based in Portugal.
Kate Sotejeff-Wilson is an academic editor, translator, and writing retreat facilitator based in Finland.
Wendy Baldwin is an academic editor, translator, and structured writing facilitator based in Spain.