Welcome to the George and Leslie Hume Writing Center, a resource dedicated to helping Stanford writers develop rich and varied abilities in all aspects of writing and communication.

The Hume Writing Center offers individual meetings with trained writing consultants; workshops on a variety of important topics related to writing; Writers' Nights featuring students, staff, and faculty reading and performing their work; the How I Write interview series; and many other special writing events. The Center sponsors the work of many student writing groups, including the Stanford Spoken Word Collective, and participates in outreach to public schools in our area. We are fully engaged in fostering a culture of writing on our campus and in our community.

Open since 2001, the Center is named for generous donors George and Leslie Hume. We are proud to acknowlege their crucial role in helping to make our work possible.

Please explore this website for information about tutoring, workshops, and special writing events sponsored by the Center. Also, click here for an informative PowerPoint slide show on the Center. (Turn on your speakers!)

Quick links

Click here to schedule an appointment at the HWC. You can also call (723-0045) to make an appointment or make one at the front desk when you visit the Center.

See the spring 2009 drop-in schedule here. Note that while many drop-in hours are in the Center, others are at campus locations including residence halls and dining halls.

Project W.R.I.T.E. 2009

The HWC sponsors Project W.R.I.T.E.with a generous grant from Peggy and Boyce Nute. We invite local high schools to the Center for ten Saturdays during the winter quarter to write, to share their writing, and to produce an annual publication. For more about the 2009 program, see Rogelio Angel's documentary on YouTube. See the PW website too.

Information for graduate students

Summer 2009 Dissertation Bootcamps

Bootcamp #1
Registration: June 15 at 10:00am
Bootcamp Dates: June 22 - July 3, 9:00am - 1:00pm, Monday - Friday

Bootcamp #2
Registration: July 6 at 10:00am
Bootcamp Dates: July 13 - July 24, 9:00am - 1:00pm, Monday - Friday

Bootcamp #3
Registration: July 27 at 10:00am
Bootcamp Dates: August 3 - August 14, 9:00am - 1:00pm, Monday - Friday

* Boot Camp is limited to 25 participants. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration requires the payment of a $100 refundable check deposit (no cash).

Click here for more information.

Summer 2009 Tutoring for Graduate Students

The HWC will be open for tutoring for 10 weeks (June 23-August 27), three days a week (TWTh), six hours a day (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.). Click here to schedule an appointment.

Summer 2009 Workshopsfor Grads and Postdocs

The Hume Writing Center offers free writing workshops for grad students. To preregister for a workshop, call Laura Thal at 723-0045. For more detailed information about the content of each workshop, click here.

July 13, Mon, 7-9pm: Writing the Dissertation: Getting Started (Humanities and Social Sciences)

July 20, Mon, 7-9pm: Writing the Dissertation: Getting Started (Sci & Eng)

July 14, Tues, 7-9pm: Writing Clear Research Statements for Fellowship and Grant Applications (Hum & Soc Sci)

July 15, Wed, 7-9pm: Writing Clear Research Statements for Fellowship and Grant Applications (Sciences and Engineering)

July 16, Thurs, 7-9pm: Writing and Publishing the Journal Article (Hum & Soc Sci)

July 23, Thurs, 7-9pm: Writing and Publishing the Journal Article (Sci & Eng)

Aug 19, Wednesday, 7-9pm: Establishing and Finding a Dissertation Writing Group

Aug. 20: Finishing the Dissertation: Writing the 'Story' of Your Dissertation (Hum & Soc Sci)

Aug. TBA: Publishing a Journal Article: Revising and Resubmitting

HWC in the news!

The Writing Center is profiled in "Praxis: A Writing Center Journal" (view the article here) and was also fetaured in a recent "US News and World Report" (view the article here).

Last updated 6/3/2009