Writer's Mafungo
Thank you for attending the Summer 2024 Writers Mafungo!
Venue:
Crystal Mountain Resort
Date:
June 1-4,2025
Applications Open:
February 3, 2025
Applications Close:
April 7, 2025
The Writer’s Mafungo is a unique opportunity for diverse scholars to experience an interdisciplinary and intense writing space. Mafungo is a Swahili word meaning “retreat”. The 3-day experience is meant to provide a mutually supportive and challenging context away from campus and daily life enabling unfettered but dense writing time. Writers must have a project in mind, and a set of achievable writing goals for each day of the experience. Additional experiences that enhance writing outcomes will be provided
The participants are held accountable by one another in daily roundtables. The roundtables are supportive but also challenging mentoring and peer mentoring sessions. Each day participants revisit goals and revise them as necessary. The retreat also includes mindfulness training and writing coaching. In addition, participants will attend a follow-up session occurring in early fall to determine the completion and outcome of the
Arrangements:
Accommodations are provided. Participants are responsible for some meals and transportation to the retreat site.
Application
Applicants will submit a 2-page description of their project and an achievable but detailed set of goals for the 3
The experience is limited to 10 participants and selections will take into consideration the interdisciplinary nature of the group, quality of
The community of being with other scholars of color from around MSU. We often don't get to see each or be in community with each other when on campus. Mafungo provides so much more than writing space. I appreciate the consultations, the community, and the time to write.
The conversations with others build community and the support helps with the writing process. Also, the advice from consultants is extremely helpful.
I realized I really need to work alongside others even if we are working on different things! So much of the academia is being told to "work alone," but this retreat has helped me realize that I don't have to follow that because it's a recommendation to work alone, not a requirement.
