Online Writing Groups - Fall 2025

Mindful Writing Retreat Sessions (Online)

Marilyn Gray, Director, Graduate Writing Center

The mindful writing retreat will integrate simple techniques from mindfulness to support the writing process and cultivate an approach to writing that fosters balance, self-care, and well-being. Please bring a current writing project because much of the retreat time will be allocated for writing. All sessions will be conducted remotely via Zoom.

Time Details:

1. Friday, October 24th, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
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2. Friday, November 7th, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
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3. Friday, November 21st, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
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4. Friday, December 5th, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
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Writing-Together Groups

The Graduate Writing Center's "writing-together" groups occur in the Winter, Spring, and Summer Quarters. Please see a description below of this Monday-Friday, online writing group, which will return Winter 2026.

The Summer 2025 "writing-together" groups will take place from July 7th - August 29th. The "writing-together" groups last two hours. At the beginning of the session, graduate students introduce themselves and say on what writing project they are working and what specific writing goal they would like to accomplish during the session. Participants then quietly write for the designated time period. At the end of the session, participants come back together and quickly report on what they did during the session. At the discretion of the facilitator, writing time may be further divided into 25-minute sessions (pomodoro technique) or another break structure.

Sign up for "writing-together" groups by registering via Handshake. When you register, you will be emailed Zoom and other information for the writing group.

Please email gwc@gsa.asucla.ucla.edu if you have any questions.