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Write a year together
Kirjoita vuosi (“Write a year”, Art House 2025) edited by Sinikka Vuola and Päivi Koivisto, is an accessible guide for writers. If you’d like to extend the depth and range of your writing skills and want help to commit to writing regularly, this could be the book for you. It is like a writing course…
Happy new writing! Join us in 2026
Happy new writing year! How far in advance do you block out writing time? I plan my retreats for the whole next year at the end of the one before. There might be more to come, as I am testing a new venue in January, but every couple of months, we have a couple of…
Your application, your human reader
Recently I learned that a university had proposed using an AI chatbot to write research funding applications. The writers would have to check whether the bot had hallucinated the guidelines. This led to flurry on social media. Some scholars saw it as a cynical cost-cutting, productivity-boosting exercise. What I don’t know is whether the bots…
When and where do you write best?
I’m choosing dates for my retreats in 2026. This will be the seventh year for Ridge Writing Retreats! So far, I’ve facilitated about 70 retreat days online and in person in Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Tampere and Säynätsalo, and a few hundred hours of Write on Wednesdays. I write well at all our venues, and that is…
From Dissertation to Book
When I finally got my PhD, I thought I could relax and rest on my laurels for a moment. My grandfather thought otherwise. The first thing he said after congratulating me was: when are you going to publish the book? Sad to say, twenty years later, I never quite got round to turning that monograph…
Cover image: the ridge/harju in Jyväskylä. All photos (c) Kate Sotejeff-Wilson
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