CSU Writes is a writing facilitation program for CSU’s professional researchers and academic writers who seek to boost productivity and develop sustainable writing practices for publication, submission, and degree completion.
Upcoming CSU WRITES Events
Fall 2025 marks a decade of CSU Writes supporting research writers across campus. We are deeply grateful to the thousands of writers who have participated in CSU Writes events, supported one another, and helped build a professional research writing community of excellence at CSU.
Fall 2025: How We Write
Join us for a semester of recognition and events focused on how we write—as researchers, experts, and emerging experts in our fields. We’ll explore the practices that shape scholarly excellence and foster a vibrant writing culture.
Spring 2026: Writing the Next Decade
Looking ahead, our spring 20026 programming features guest speakers and special events designed to launch us into the next decade of research writing support. As writing continues to evolve with AI and new modes of scholarly expression, CSU Writes remains committed to helping you adapt, thrive, and lead through successful submissions, publications, and proposals.
What We Offer
Workshops Courses, & Events
Rotating workshops and special courses and events address the 5 areas academic writers encounter their greatest challenges:
Space, Time, Energy / Momentum, Academic Style, and Collaboration.
Retreats
Writers who attend retreats access a writing community here at CSU and tend to produce much more writing than they would on their own.
Grant Support
CSU Writes partners with resident experts to provide low-stakes grant writing support and feedback, including drop-in writing sessions, workshops, and retreats, with special emphasis on NSF Career projects.
Productivity Support
Regular drop-in writing sessions for all CSU research writers.
Dedicated writing accountability groups for faculty and grad students.
What Writers Say
CSU Writes on YouTube
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CSU Writes Supports Innovation
We Wish You a Happy and Intentional Winter Break!
If you have participated in CSU Writes’ offerings over the years, you know that our advice for writing over university breaks is not “one size fits all;” instead, we encourage you to get clear with your priorities and have a fabulous time making your winter break dreams come true. If
Registration is Open for Spring 2025 CSU Writes Events
FACULTY Writes webinars and workshops address topics of scheduling writing for career building, writing with ease, AI guidance, and effective collaborative writing. 1-Day in-person retreats will continue through the spring semester and expand to three- to five-day retreats in the early summer. To view and register for our FACULTY offerings,
CSU Writes Fall 2024 Highlights
We were thrilled to connect with many of you and to talk about our research and scholarly writing at CSU in fresh ways. You can explore recaps from this exciting and productive fall semester below: Writing with Creativity and AI – We were honored to host internationally acclaimed author, educator,
We are proud to recognize writers who have participated in CSU Writes and whose writing has been published, funded, or recognized with an award or distinction.
Dr. Julie Heinrichs, NREL
In recognition of her writing productivity, Dr. Julie Heinrichs won the 2019 “Most Publications” award from the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and the department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability (Warner College of Natural Resources). Julie started participating in CSU Writes workshops and retreats in 2018.
Josh Hewitt, Statistics
Josh (and coauthors) was awarded the 2018 Wiley-The International Environmetrics Society Best Environmetrics Paper Award for the paper “Remote effects spatial process models for modeling teleconnections”. Josh participated in a CSU Writes manuscript editing group, Spring 2018.
We recognize great research is great writing.
To add your, your colleague’s, or your student’s story to CSU Writes’ ACCOLADES page complete the form below or email CSU Writes at [email protected].