UW-Madison Writing Center

Today, in conjunction with the UW–Madison Graduate School, we're celebrating our 2026 Grant Writing Camp participants on a thoughtful and productive camp. Thank you to our panelists from across the university and throughout the Madison community for sharing their expertise!

Grant Writing Camp provides selected graduate student participants with a structured introduction to the nuts-and-bolts of writing funding proposals to support a wide range of humanities and social sciences work, from research travel and dissertation writing to public humanities projects.

Drawing on personal experience with cancer survivorship and writing center practice, Maggie Hart’s blog post for Another Word reframes writing centers as spaces of recovery and argues that writing and recovery are nonlinear, relational processes shaped by care, flexibility, and “crip time.” Through concepts like access intimacy and ethics of care, Hart positions writing centers as places where writers can rebuild confidence, voice, and belonging within academic life. Read more here: https://go.wisc.edu/3q8lz

This week’s Another Word blog post posits that the “low-stakes” nature of writing center work is not guaranteed; it heavily depends on the broader sociopolitical contexts within which we operate. In the U.S., these contexts are increasingly shaped by heightened immigration enforcement, racialized surveillance, and growing anxieties surrounding documentation and visibility. Drawing on writing center scholarship alongside public resources developed by immigrant advocacy and higher education organizations, this post offers several considerations for writing center tutors and administrators navigating the present moment. https://go.wisc.edu/1xoj06