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AcWriMo: Academic Writing Month

Inspired by NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo) caters to the specific needs of academic writers at all stages of their projects. Together with the Centre for Academic Literacies and Languages (CALL), the Library is hosting a series of AcWriMo workshops to support you in your writing.

AcWriMo has scholarly writing as its focus. Setting goals and deadlines for yourself, and sharing these with others, creates externalpressure that can help you gain momentum in your writing.

Set yourself a goal.

For example, word count, writing time, or a number of writing tasks -you decide.
For example: At the end of November, you will have a chapter finished.

Share your goal with the community.

Share your monthly goal anonymously with the EUI community.
You can also use the hashtag #EUIwriting on social media to join our campaign and share your experience.

Draft a strategy.

In our first two workshops, we will help you create a schedule and prepare materials for the month ahead.

Share your progress and your problems.

You are not alone in this process.

Work hard.

Stay motivated by joining the AcWriMo workshops and following the social media posts.

*The timing of the Friday sessions will be:

09:15–10:00 (silent writing)
10:10–10:55 (silent writing)
11:05–11:50 (silent writing)
12:00–12:45 (guided discussion)
Topic and outline	Date	Room/Speakers
1. Introductory meeting (online) During this session writing goals for AcWriMo will be established.	Wednesday, 29 October 15:00-16:00	Online Benjamin Carver, Carol Kyriakos and Gaia Pieraccioni
2. Prioritising your academic writing* Silent writing and writing conversations	Friday, 7 November 09:15-12:45	Stockholm Room, EUI Library, Badia Fiesolana Benjamin Carver and Federica Signoriello
3. Argument structure in academic writing* Silent writing and writing conversations	Friday, 14 November 09:15-12:45	Stockholm Room, EUI Library, Badia Fiesolana Valentina Spiga and Fergal Treanor
4. GenAI tools for academic writing* Silent writing and writing conversations	Friday, 21 November 09:15-12:45	Stockholm Room, EUI Library, Badia Fiesolana Thomas Bourke and Katie Fry
5. Academic style across languages* Silent writing and writing conversations	Friday, 28 November 09:15-12:45	Stockholm Room, EUI Library, Badia Fiesolana Katie Fry, Gaia Pieraccioni and Federica Signoriello
6. Follow up: returning to goals (via email) Participants are emailed to ask them to return to the goals they established for the month.	Monday, 1 December 14:00-15:00	Online Benjamin Carver, Carol Kiriakos and Gaia Pieraccioni

Additionally, you can find some interesting resources here to help improve your writing and achieve your goals:

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Page last updated on 21 October 2025