The ECFI Writing Salon offers a community of multidisciplinary academic writers from across NYU who meet to enhance their productivity through uninterrupted writing time.
Organized in partnership with the Division of Libraries, the Salon is a faculty writing community at NYU that aims to support faculty’s scholarship and publication goals by prioritizing writing, fostering a culture of accountability, and providing a structure to enhance productivity. Participants in the Writing Salon will meet once or twice a month to dedicate time to work on their projects in a productive and supportive environment.
The Salon aims to support faculty as they systematically plan their writing goals.
Meeting Dates
The group meets at 411 Lafayette Street in Manhattan from 11:00am to 3:00pm on Fridays, once or twice a month beginning February 2, 2024.
Each session showcases tools and strategies to jumpstart your writing. Light refreshments are served.
Participants may choose to attend one or all of the sessions. They may stay for the entire time or a portion of the allotted four hours.
For more information on the Writing Salon and the ECFI’s other projects, please email the Center for Faculty Advancement at facultyadvance@nyu.edu.
Inaugural Writing Salon — January 2023 in Tel Aviv
Participants were introduced to writing strategies during the program, including building a “brick wall” that helped them map and visualize their progress; “guided brainstorming” that helped them articulate their argument or “key point” of the project at hand; and a “reading sandwich,” a strategy that helps build writing time interspersed with reading blocks.
Key activities
- Four-hour blocks of uninterrupted writing time per day
- Accountability partners and peer-to-peer check-ins
- Conversations on writing styles and barriers to “getting started” with Vice Provost Charlton McIlwain and Associate Vice Provost Niyati Parekh
- Guest speakers from NYU New York
- Virtual 1-1 consultations with NYU Press
- Small group discussions and 1-1 consultations with Dr. McIlwain and Dr. Parekh
- Final presentation of projects
Participants
- College of Dentistry: Alex Thomsen
- Division of Libraries: Michelle Demeter
- Faculty of Arts & Science: Linsey Edwards, Roni Henig
- Gallatin School: Raven Brown
- NYU Shanghai: Hyoungee Kong
- Rory Meyers College of Nursing: Jasmine Travers
- School of Global Public Health: Alden Lai, Daniel Fogal, Karyn Faber
- Silver School of Social Work: Prema Filippone
- Steinhardt School: Mercy Agyepong
- Stern School of Business: Raveesh Mayya
Testimonials
Faculty and Faculty Fellows who traveled to Tel Aviv unanimously agreed that having protected writing time allowed them to be productive, and concurred that working alongside peers from several disciplines was beneficial for them.
SAMPLE PROGRAM — two days of the workshop
DAY A
9:00–10:15am
Conversation with Niyati and Charlton
Why do I write? Who is my audience? What do I do when I get stuck? How do I overcome writing obstacles?
10:15–10:30am
Break
10:30–11:00am
Ask Me Anything (AMA)
Drop-in, optional check-in with Niyati and Charlton
11:00am–3:15pm
Writing Block with working lunch
3:15–3:45pm
Coffee & peer-to-peer check-in
DAY B
9:00am–noon
Visit to Tel Aviv University
noon–1:00pm
Lunch
1:00–4:00pm
Writing Block
4:00–4:30pm
Break
4:30–5:30pm
Individual consults with Eric from NYU Press, Charlton (Humanities), or Niyati (STEM)
Farewell dinner with the faculty. Clockwise from left: Charlton McIlwain (Vice Provost), Michelle Demeter (Division of Libraries), Raveesh Mayya (Stern School of Business), Noa David (NYU Tel Aviv), Alex Thomsen (College of Dentistry), Niyati Parekh (Associate Vice Provost)
For more information on the Writing Salon and the ECFI’s other projects, please email the Center for Faculty Advancement at facultyadvance@nyu.edu.