Faculty Writing Hunkers
2025 Summer Writing Hunker
May 19–23, 2025
The Summer Faculty Writing Hunker is a five-day interdisciplinary faculty/P&A writing retreat scheduled for May 19–23, 2025. On-campus hunkers will be hosted at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in three locations, and a remote hunker will be hosted on Zoom.
Writing Hunkers create a supportive and productive community of scholarly writers from various disciplines and a range of academic ranks across the University of Minnesota system. Hunkers can be a space of recovery and reorganization at the end of a hectic semester and a space for preparation and planning for a summer of focused writing work.
About Hunkers
The Writing Across the Curriculum program offers interdisciplinary faculty and staff writing retreats called Writing Hunkers. These programs combine dedicated independent writing time with structured writing activities, writing and research consultations, and reflective lunchtime discussions about writing and teaching. Hunkers create a distraction-free, supportive, and productive community of writers from a wide variety of disciplines and a range of academic ranks at the University of Minnesota.
Research from Robert Boice (1990), McGrail, Rikard, and Jones (2006), and Paul J. Silva (2014) have demonstrated that opportunities to write in parallel, participate in writing groups, and receive coaching on academic writing increase faculty writing productivity. In addition to dedicated writing time, Hunkers create a community of writers who share their experiences, tips, and tricks for managing writing projects and encouraging regular writing practice.
Facilitator
Daniel Emery, Assistant Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
Interested? Questions?
If you have any questions or would like to learn more about Writing Hunkers (including developing your own departmental or area hunker), please contact Dan Emery ([email protected]). We encourage anyone interested to join our Hunker list-serv and Google Group, even if this writing retreat doesn't fit your current plans.
For additional support for your writing and research, please see our Resources for scholarly writers page. If you are a graduate student writer interested in writing support (or a faculty member who advises graduate writers), please see the Dissertation Writing Retreat and Student Writing Support resources, especially for graduate writers.