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.
Table of Content
1.
Introduction: from our writing rooms to yours
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.
About the author
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.
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