Faculty Writing Accelerator: 12 Weeks to Publication Fall 2025
Session Description
September 5 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Is there a conference paper sitting at the bottom of your to do list that you have planned to submit for publication but need some extra motivational support to finally send it off to a journal? Could you and your co-authors use some meaningful peer accountability to get an article ready for submission by the end of the fall term?
Join the Faculty Writing Accelerator: 12 Weeks to Publication for a facilitated series of sessions featuring structured writing activities, expert guest speakers sharing their experiences with scholarly writing, editing, and publishing, and one hour of dedicated co-writing time. Topics are guided by Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks (Belcher, 2019). Participation will be capped at 35 to focus on creating a supportive space to write together and to emphasize comradery and accountability among peers. The sessions presume an expectation of confidentiality and collegiality. The sessions are focused on working together as a cohort and emphasize attainable, practical, goal setting for peer-reviewed, scholarly writing projects.
Deadline to apply: Friday August 8, 2025 by 5:00 pm EST. All participants will be notified of decision by email.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the Faculty Writing Accelerator: 12 Weeks to Publication participants will have three tangible, written scholarly outcomes:
- A finished article ready for submission to a scholarly peer-reviewed journal
- A writing schedule that works for during the term
- Completed abstract and title optimized for keyword searches and discoverability
Additionally, participants will have these longitudinal outcomes:
- Peer-to-peer, cross disciplinary networks at UofT
- Awareness of editorial process for getting articles accepted in scholarly journals
- Understand how to create, run, and maintain future faculty writing groups
Additional Information
Who Should Attend: Faculty currently working on a piece of writing, single or co-authored, for submission to a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Please note: faculty engaged in co-writing an article are welcome either with their co-author or can participate independently.
Key Benefits:
- Establish regular writing habits
- Build and sustaining writing as a process over time
- Hone and clarify arguments and claims
- Gain supportive group accountability to counteract the isolation of writing
- Develop strategies for giving engaged, useful feedback to others’
- Learn other discipline’s writing conventions
- Learn how to increase scholarship discoverability with keywords and bibliometrics
- Discover scholarly publishing and supports available at UofT Libraries (e.g., OA; copyright; author rights negotiation).
Expectations and Commitments: Faculty participants will spend two hours weekly in synchronous sessions with the entire group with additional asynchronous writing, editing, and reading time presumed during the week. Accepted participants will receive a hard copy of the book Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks (2019). E-copies can be purchased using PERA funds.
Dates, Times, Location: Fridays 10am-12pm EST on Zoom:
- September: 5, 12, 19, 26
- October: 3, 10, 17, 24,31
- November: 7, 14, 21, 28
Requirements for Participation: Participants must hold a continuing faculty appointment at the University of Toronto. To optimize program impact, participation will be limited to 35 participants with a waitlist enabled.
Facilitator: Elizabeth Parke, Faculty Programming Development Officer, CRIS
Apply: Interested faculty should register their interest through EVE by Friday August 8, 2025 5:00pm EST.
Communicating Results: We thank all faculty who apply. Applicants will be notified by email.
