Open to all Cal Lutheran graduate students. Graduate Writing Groups are a great way to build accountability, make progress on writing projects,
and connect with other grad students in a supportive relationship. There are normally 3 to 4 people in each group. Students may come with a group already assembled or they may fill out the to be placed in a writing group.
See the FAQs below for more information about the Summer Graduate Writing Group.
A group of graduate students from any program that commits to meeting regularly throughout
the summer.
The group’s goal is to sustain the members’ writing processes and improve their writing projects.
This goal is achieved by the members writing together, holding each other accountable, and providing constructivefeedback to one another.
3-4 Cal Lutheran graduate students per group who have a specific writing project to
complete by a set deadline (e.g., end of Summer 2025)
The group members are committed to the regular, weekly or bi-weekly meetings during the summer.
One of the group members serves as the group facilitator and communicates regularly with the Writing Center Coordinator, Jess Rodil. The group
facilitator will be compensated (2 hours/week) for their work and responsibilities.
The group members follow the group guidelines and ground rules to guide their participation (i.e., writing their drafts, reading others’ drafts,
and responding to others’ drafts).
By default, the group meets online (via Zoom); however, the group can still decide
if they will meet in person, online, or a mixture of both.
The group agrees upon meeting times that work best for the group members.
Joining a writing group makes the individual (and often solitary) writing process
more interesting and interactive.
The writing group can hold each member accountable and keep their writing process
going, which helps achieve the member’s writing goals.
Receiving readers’ feedback and audience responses (guided by the Writing Center)
is inevitably helpful and beneficial for improving content, clarity, audience readability,
and more.
A writing group provides much-needed support to graduate students (academically, intellectually,
socially, and professionally).
Fill out an by June 14, 2025, and you will be contacted on June 16 about your group. If you already
have your fellow graduate students to be form a group together, please just indicate
that in the form.
*The Creative Writing Group will be on pause during Summer 2025.
“I’ve never completed a piece!” How can I be a writer and never finish a story?” “I’ll
never be a writer!” I’ve repeated these sentences tens of hundreds of times in my
writing process.
Maybe you, as someone who also loves writing, have done the same thing. Maybe you’re
lost on how to continue a chapter. Maybe you’re not studying writing; you’re studying
Biology, Business, Communications — like myself — and you’re unsure how to utilize
your ability. Maybe you feel incapable, not that good; maybe it’s writer’s block.
Writing, as enthralling as it is, can be difficult. But with the right kind of support,
it can feel swift and enjoyable.
That’s what we aim to do as part of the Writing Center’s new Creative Writing group:
a group of people who also have these issues, and ask themselves these endless questions.
As a writer, you’ll be able to work with other people feeling lost in the process
of creating a story, all with the aim of completing a piece of work you feel happy
with!
We’d like to help you express yourself, no matter who you are, because writing is
an expression of value; of life, and sometimes, putting life into words can use an
extra bit of help.
Open to all Cal Lutheran graduate students. Graduate Writing Groups are a great way to build accountability, make progress on writing projects,
and connect with other grad students in a supportive relationship. There are normally 3 to 4 people in each group. Students may come with a group already assembled or they may fill out the to be placed in a writing group.