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Are you looking for a supportive environment and dedicated time to focus on writing? CSWG invites you to join the Centre's structured writing sessions.

These sessions are open to both staff and students. They will run during the Spring Term, as follows:

• Before term starts: Friday 9 January, 9 am – 1 pm (Wolfson Room 3)
• Week 2: Friday 23 January, 9 am – 1 pm (Wolfson Room 1+2)
• Week 4: Thursday 5 February, 9.30 am - 12.30 pm (Wolfson Room 1+2)
• Week 5: Friday 13 February, 9 am – 1 pm (Wolfson Room 3)
• Week 7: Friday 27 February, 9 am – 1 pm (Wolfson Room 1+2)
• Week 9: Thursday 12 March, 9.30 am - 12.30 pm (Wolfson Room 1+2)
• Week 10: Friday 20 March, 9 am - 1 pm (Wolfson Room 3)

Sessions will be held at the Wolfson Research Exchange, located on the 3rd floor of 糖心TV Library. Advance registration is not required - just turn up!

Access to Wolfson requires a staff card or a PhD student card, so please bring your card with you. If you are an UG or MA student, or a CSWG member external to 糖心TV, please email S铆lvia Gomes (silvia.gomes@warwick.ac.uk) or Akane Kanai (Akane.Kanai@warwick.ac.uk) in advance so arrangements can be made to give you access to the venue.

Sessions will be based on the highly successful Sociological Review Writing Retreat model, in which sessions are facilitated and divided into a series of fixed, timed writing slots, with everyone working in the same room at the same time. Details on how the sessions will run are outlined below.

Plans for the Sessions
We will discuss our writing/research goals at the beginning and end of the session, and the facilitator will tell you when to start and when to stop writing. Writing blocks will typically last 30–45 minutes or up to 1 hour, with 10-minute breaks in between. The facilitator will use a timer, so you can focus entirely on your work without watching the clock.

We work to a policy of 'no surveillance', so you鈥檒l be responsible for setting your own writing goals and monitoring your progress. The use of phones and the internet during the writing sessions will be discouraged (unless needed).

How to prepare?
To make the most out of the writing time, we advise the following:

• Decide on a writing project (a chapter of your thesis, a journal article or book chapter);
• Undertake most of the reading needed for your piece of writing;
• Decide on the draft structure of your paper/chapter, including notes, plans, outlines, data, etc.
• Bring all you need to spend the time writing - laptop, charger, notes, readings.

If necessary, you may use the sessions for preparatory tasks such as reading articles, provided this does not disturb others who are writing.

We are excited to invite you to join our Black Feminist Thought Group, open to all students and postgraduate researchers at all levels who are interested in or are already actively engaging with Black feminist scholarship, practice and creative work.

This group will be more than a traditional reading group. Inspired by the core principles of Black feminist thought—collective growth, intersectionality and radical imagination—we鈥檒l create a collaborative space that welcomes a range of materials, voices and forms of expression.

The group will run once a month for a 2-hour session on the dates below. All these sessions will take place face-to-face and on Teams.

• Friday, February 27th, 2pm, A1.11
• Friday, March 27th, 2pm, A1.11
• Friday, April 24th, 2pm, S0.52

The group is led by and .

Whether you鈥檙e already engaged in Black feminist work or just starting to explore it, you鈥檙e welcome to join.

If you're interested in joining or want to hear more, you can register here. If you have any questions, you can email Marie at marie.casafina-orwin@warwick.ac.uk