Dates: August 7 – 13, 2026
Applications Close: July 7, 2026
In August, come to Notre Dame’s campus in Kylemore Abbey (Ireland) for a weeklong writing retreat based on the ideas from James Lang’s latest book, Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience. Visit the retreat’s home page for all of the details. Email him with questions that aren’t answered on the website. Yes, the picture below shows you the incredible setting in which we will be writing in the company of friends.
Are you an academic, teacher, or expert with research and ideas that deserve to find a wider audience? Would you like to break the barrier between writing for specialized audiences and writing for more public audiences?
This seminar addresses two core professional challenges:
- Teaching More Effectively: Learn research-backed strategies to improve student learning and engagement
- Writing for Broader Audiences: Develop skills to communicate expertise beyond academic specialists
This week-long workshop will help you achieve those goals by showing you how to draw upon your hard-won wisdom as a teacher to create better learning experiences for your nonfiction readers. This approach draws lessons from Jim Lang’s new book, Write Like You Teach, in which he argues that “the research on human learning can inform our approach to nonfiction writing”. He developed this approach partly from his many books and essays on teaching and learning writing for broad audiences, as well as his work as a book series acquisition editor helping dozens of published authors translate their expertise for readers across many fields.