ACLC Workshop | Marie Beauchamps: Creative Writing for Academics

Organized by the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication! (ACLC)

Course Dates:

Fridays 9:30-13:00
On campus

23 October
30 October

Location: Oudemanhuispoort
Room: A0.08

The choices we make when we write have profound effects on the reality that we observe. Giving an account of our observations requires a multitude of styles of writing for achieving the greatest accuracy. Finding the most accurate style of writing for a particular purpose sometimes implies letting go of a seemingly neutral style of writing, instead embracing a plurality of voices, such as staging a dialogue or exploring a more poetic style. This workshop aims to explore what happens when we loosen up the frame of our habitual academic writing practice, inviting multi-layered stories to bubble up and become part of the conversation unfolding on the page.

In this two-sessions interactive workshop, Marie Beauchamps will lead you through a series of hands-on exercises to make you experience creative writing within your academic practice. You will practice writing scenes, working with sensory details, defining the main characters driving the story of your work, and staging conversations between them. There will be time for peer-review, and we will take time to reflect on what it takes to make space for creativity within our academic work.

Practicalities

Participants will be asked to bring a text of their own to work on during the workshop. It can be an outline, a very first draft, a finished article, or everything in-between, as long as they feel comfortable working with it for the time of the workshop.

Register here! https://uvaforms.formstack.com/forms/phd_skills_registration_creative_writing_autumn_2026