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Submit your best writing to the Undergraduate Writing Symposium!
Jan. 11, 2018—The Vanderbilt Writing Studio invites you to submit your work to the 10th annual Undergraduate Writing Symposium. If you wish to be among Vanderbilt’s best undergraduate writers, consider submitting to the 10th annual Undergraduate Symposium. Participation in the Symposium is highly selective and papers are chosen by way of a blind review process. Those who are selected...
The Writing Studio will reopen for Spring 2018 on Monday, January 8
Jan. 2, 2018—The Writing Studio’s online schedule for Spring 2018 will be available late in the week of January 2, and we will reopen with the start of classes on Monday, January 8. We look forward to serving you! The spring semester is always a busy one at the Writing Studio, and we hope you’ll jump at...
Dinner and a Draft with Samira Sheikh (History & Asian Studies)
Oct. 26, 2017—Thursday, November 2, 2017 6:00-7:30 pm The Writing Studio (1801 Edgehill Ave., Suite 112) Get a great dinner. Get a new perspective on writing. Get to know a professor in a fun, informal setting. Join us for “Dinner and a Draft”! Our faculty guest will be Samira Sheikh, a professor of History and of Asian...
Dinner and a Draft with Katherine Friedman (Biological Sciences)
Sep. 18, 2017—Thursday, September 28, 2017 6:00-7:30 pm Dean of the Ingram Commons Residence Get a great dinner. Get a new perspective on writing. Get to know a professor in a fun, informal setting. Those are three reasons you should attend “Dinner and a Draft,” coming up on Thursday, September 28, from 6:00-7:30, at the Dean of...
Fall Break Dissertation Writers’ Retreat 2017
Sep. 15, 2017—October 12-13, 2017 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Graduate School and the College of Arts and Science Dean’s Office. Over Fall Break, the Writing Studio will host a two-day dissertation writers’ retreat, which will provide dissertating graduate students with loosely-structured time to work individually in a quiet, collegial atmosphere. We will...
2017 MORGAN AWARD WINNERS!
Apr. 25, 2017—Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers! Thanks, too, to all who submitted their work for consideration. This year the Morgan Award committee reviewed over 600 pages of writing by Vanderbilt’s first-year students. Learn more about the annual Morgan Award competition here.
Inspiration, Renewal at the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Writing Symposium
Apr. 13, 2017—by Adrian Larbi-Cherif, Deann Armstrong, and Peter Capretto April 10, 2017 T.S. Eliot remarked that “April is the cruellest month.” In late March and early April, students are elbows deep into the academic year, and beginning to think about final exams as they struggle to solidify summer internship or employment plans. Professors often have...
Kick-off-the-Summer Dissertation Retreat 2017
Apr. 11, 2017—May 8-11, 2017 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School, and the Arts and Science Dean’s Office The Writing Studio’s dissertation writers’ retreats provide dissertating graduate students with loosely-structured time to work individually in a quiet, collegial atmosphere. We couple ample writing time with optional workshops and...
First-Year Writers: Submit your work for the Henrietta Morgan Memorial Award!
Mar. 24, 2017—Each year the Writing Studio conducts the competition for the Henrietta Morgan Memorial Award for first-year writers. Established by William Morgan in memory of his wife, the award goes to the first-year student who submits the best sample of original writing. The winning student’s name will appear in the commencement program. In spring 2017, the deadline...
Undergraduate Writing Symposium 2017
Mar. 20, 2017—UPDATE: Click here to read a post describing the 2017 Undergraduate Symposium or here to view the 2017 program. On Sunday afternoon, March 26, 2017, Vanderbilt will host its ninth annual Undergraduate Writing Symposium, a forum for excellent undergraduate writing of all kinds. In addition to essays, the Symposium will feature the great diversity of writing projects produced...