Center for Teaching and Learning

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.

Click here for a drop-in schedule.  Both at the HWC and at many other locations around the campus, you can find a tutor almost any hour of the day or evening!

Click here to fill out our online feedback form. You should fill out one of these forms after every scheduled, or drop-in appointment.

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.

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 9/28/2009