Dear Colleagues, The Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy is launching a weekly academic writing event for doctoral students, co-organized by Lisa Tragbar and Raphael Aybar. The VDP Writing Evenings provide an opportunity, and space, to advance your dissertation or other academic texts. We will have focused writing sessions under a peer pressure schema. The evenings are structured in four 50 minutes sessions, with short breaks in between for socializing with your peers. The VDP Writing Evenings will take place every *Monday evening* in *Hörsaal 3A, NIG*, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna. Writing Evenings for the WS 2022: 14.11.22, 16:00-20:00, NIG, 3A 21.11.22, 16:00-20:00, NIG, 3A 28.11.22, *17:00-*20:00, NIG, 3A* 05.12.22, 16:00-20:00, NIG, 3A 12.12.22, 16:00-20:00, NIG, 3A 19.12.22, 16:00-20:00, NIG, 3A 09.01.23,*17:00-*20:00, NIG, 3A* 16.01.23, 16:00-20:00, NIG, 3A 23.01.23, 16:00-20:00, NIG, 3A 30.01.23, 16:00-20:00, NIG, 3A *Please note the shorter writing sessions on 28.11.22 and 09.01.23 We are pleased to kick off *the first VDP Writing Evening on the 14^th of November 2022 *with a*short academic writing workshop from Lisette Schmidt*, staff member of the Centre for Doctoral Studies. We invite all the members of the VDP to attend our weekly Writing Evenings and especially encourage those to come who do not have an office space at the university. If there is enough room, we would like to extend the invitation to advanced master students working on their thesis. If you wish to attend the kick-off session on the 14th of november, please send a short message to vd.philosophy(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:vd.philosophie@univie.ac.at>to register. For the other meetings, you do not need to register, but you will greatly help us if you do it. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask lisa.tragbar(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:lisa.tragbar@univie.ac.at>or raphael.aybar(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:raphael.aybar@univie.ac.at>. __ We look forward to seeing you all! Lisa & Raphael