Faculty Writing Support Program
Feeling challenged focusing on your academic writing? The Faculty Writing Support Program, led by professors Emily Abrams Ansari and Kelly Olson, is pleased to offer a series of initiatives and resources to help you un-block your writing and take it to the next level.
Writing Retreats 2025-26
Would you benefit from 1-2 supportive days of focused writing with your colleagues to set you up to meet writing goals over the months ahead?
The Faculty Writing Support Program is back! We will host writing retreats on:
- Monday, December 15 and Tuesday, December 16, 2025 | 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
- Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1, 2026 | 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
- Who: Full- and part-time faculty, librarians/archivists, and post-doctoral scholars at Western
- Where: On campus, rooms TBA
- What: After brief introductions and goal-setting, the bulk of retreat days will be spent writing quietly alongside one another
- Brain Nourishment: Please bring your own refreshments
REGISTER HERE for any or all of these days: you will need your uwo email and password. Once you have registered, your space is confirmed. We will be in touch nearer the date to confirm the location.
Helpful Links
Overcoming Burnout, Writer’s Block, Resistance to Writing
- 10 Steps to Reignite Your Flame and Shine Brightly Once More
- 6 Ways to Beat Writer's Block
- Lower Your Standards
- Shut Up and Write
- The Costs of Perfectionism
- Aiding the Writing-Stalled Professor
- Unravelling Faculty Burnout
Writing Habits
- How To Restart Your Research This Summer
- A Realistic Summer Writing Schedule
- Planning a Productive Summer
- Regrouping After an Unsuccessful Summer
- No More Post-Summer Regret
- 10 Simple Rules for Scientists: Improving Your Writing Productivity
- Write No Matter What
- How To Write A Lot
- Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks
- Air & Light & Time & Space
- Becoming An Academic Writer
- Anything by Rachel Toor or Theresa MacPhail in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Revising Writing
Other
Additional Information
Western's Faculty Writing Support Program is a grassroots enterprise led by Emily Abrams Ansari and Kelly Olson.
If you have any additional questions, please contact Emily Abrams Ansari, Associate Professor, Music Research and Composition, or Kelly Olson, Associate Professor, Classical Studies, Women's Studies and Law.
