In January, we asked for you to nominate students for this spring’s Undergraduate Writing Symposium events and our 2024-2025 Undergraduate Writing Consultants positions, and, wow, did the nominations roll in!
Thanks to so many of you, we more than doubled the number of faculty nominations we received this January compared to last year.
So it seemed only fitting that we start our February newsletter off with a note of enormous and heartfelt appreciation to all faculty who submitted a nomination.
Thank you for helping us honor and celebrate undergraduate writers and writing through the symposium and connect with students with the skill and drive to keep the Writing Studio going strong as we build our 2024-2025 writing consultant staff.
In this month’s newsletter:
Call for Graduate Writing Consultant applications for 2024-2025
Save the Date for the Undergraduate Writing Symposium and Creative Writing Symposium and Arts Showcase
Spotlight on application writing support from the Writing Studio
Read on for details and, as always, a reminder of Writing Studio resources available to support you and your students this semester.
Call for Applications (Please Share)
Graduate Writing Consultant Openings for 2024-2025
The Writing Studio is recruiting graduate and professional students to join our staff of Graduate Writing Consultants for the 2024-2025 academic year. Please share with any students you believe may be interested!
Graduate Writing Consultants start at $15.50 per hour, set their own commitment of 5-15 hours per week, and benefit from paid training and ongoing professional development. Successful applicants will start in August 2024.
Given the centrality of writing to the life of the university, this role is a wonderful chance for graduate and professional students to hone their writing skills while also growing as educators, scholars, and researchers.
Deadline: For priority consideration, interested students should apply by Monday, March 18, 2024.
Undergraduate Writing Symposium
Save the Date
Undergraduate Writing Symposium
Theme: Finding Our Voices, Entering into Dialogue
When: Friday, April 5, 3:00-6:00 PM
The Writing Studio invites any and all interested faculty to join us for the 16th Annual Undergraduate Writing Symposium. Generously cosponsored by the Martha Rivers Ingram Commons and the Vanderbilt Libraries, this event will spotlight students’ emergent voices as they dare to grow as writers: exploring, experimenting, and answering the call to join a wider dialogue through earnest engagement with the words and views of others.
Event panels will put outstanding first-year writers in conversation with upper-division undergrads engaged in honors theses, independent study, and other advanced writing projects.
Stop by for a single panel or stay for the whole a event! Full event schedule will be available as the event approaches on the UWS homepage.
Undergraduate Creative Writing Symposium and Arts Showcase
When: Wednesday, April 10, 3:00-6:00 PM
The 3rd Annual Undergraduate Creative Writing Symposium and Arts Showcase will celebrate undergraduates of all years as talented creative writers through their readings of their fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and more.
Co-hosted by the Writing Studio and Office of Experiential Learning and Immersion Vanderbilt and generously co-sponsored by the Martha Rivers Ingram Commons and the Vanderbilt Libraries, the event will feature panels of student authors sharing and reflecting on their work. Attendees will be able to access an online gallery containing the full text of each presenter’s featured creative piece.
Stop by for a single panel or stay for the whole a event! Full event schedule will be available as the event approaches on the UWS homepage.
Instructor Resources for Spring 2024
As the spring semester continues, keep the Writing Studio’s resources for you and your students in mind!
More than Just Course Papers: Spotlight on Application Writing Support
Our pitch to students is that they can bring any writing project they are working on during their time at Vanderbilt to the Writing Studio. That includes application essays, their high stakes leading many students to appointments with us throughout the year and to the application essay workshops we often hold with a variety of campus partners.
Because January turned out to be a particularly busy month for Writing Studio application support, we thought it deserved a February spotlight:
14 students attended an Application Workshop on January 17th for the Keegan Traveling Fellowship in partnership with the Office of Undergraduate Education, which administers the program.
Each summer the Writing Studio offers workshops and organizes peer writing support groups for Fulbright applicants, and just last week we heard from our partners on the Career Center’s Fellowships Team that this year Vanderbilt has had its largest-ever cohort of Fulbright semifinalists, representing more than fifty percent of applicants!
VUSRP Proposal workshop, January 17th
Share and Subscribe!
We have begun distributing our monthly newsletter to faculty teaching first-year writing seminars and W courses and asking departments to forward it on to their faculty, but you can also sign up to receive it directly.
The Writing Studio supports writers, instructors of writing, and all the ways writing is an essential medium for learning, discovery, serving our communities, and achieving our goals within the Vanderbilt community.
One-on-one writing consultation appointments are available in-person and online Sundays-Fridays, as early as 9:00 a.m. and as late as 8:00 p.m. Bring writing projects at any stage in the writing process. Schedule up to 7 days in advance through the Writing Studio website.
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