Writing in Social Spaces is about making time and space for writing, while writing with other people. Even those who want to write, who know how to write well and who have quality publications, report that they cannot find enough time for writing. This book offers quick and long-term solutions to this problem, using in-person, online and hybrid writing retreats, writer’s groups, writing workshops and courses on academic writing.

This updated second edition uses practical approaches throughout and offers strategies, formats and tips for productive writing that have been tried and tested in many different settings and countries and with writers at different levels and in different professions. This edition has new chapters on sustaining the benefits and maintaining well-being during intensive periods of writing as well as how to run writing workshops, develop writing courses and use social writing to support writing and writers in academic and professional settings.

Using case studies and vignettes of writing in social spaces to illustrate the theory in practice, this book is a valuable resource for academics, scholars, professionals and practitioners, as well as researchers at all stages of their career, and in all disciplines.

Rowena Murray is an independent scholar, affiliated to the University of Leeds, UK. She runs writing courses, retreats and training for retreat facilitators in the UK and internationally.