VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center
The VOCES Graduate Writing Center is open to all students consistent with state and federal law, the UC Nondiscrimination Statement and the Nondiscrimination Policy Statement for University of California Publications Regarding Student-Related Matters.
VOCES is supported by GANAS Graduate Pathways - a Title V, Part B Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans Program funded by the US Department of Education. VOCES, as part of GANAS Graduate Pathways, supports Latinx graduate students’ writing proficiency, sense of belonging, and degree completion. Though VOCES is intended to support graduate degrees for Latinx students, students of color, and low-income students, we serve all graduate students.
We offer one-on-one writing support and graduate student writing groups staffed by The Writing Center’s skilled Writing Mentors, all of whom either hold or are pursuing graduate degrees and have backgrounds in writing teaching, tutoring, and/or mentoring. We specialize in supporting graduate students writing for seminars, qualifying exams, dissertation drafts, CVs, fellowship applications, proposals, and more. We are all writers ourselves, and we are here to be a member of your writing community. Bring us your budding ideas, your developing thoughts, your unpunctuated drafts, or your final polishing needs. We are here to work with you!
VOCES also supports graduate writing groups and works in collaboration with professional writing coaching and mentorship. Writing coaches work with writers to co-create custom-designed writing curricula and practices that actively support sustainable, generative, and joyful writing practices and contexts. Our coaches offer individual tutoring, writing group mentorship, and workshops to train students and staff in sustainable writing craft and practice. Our graduate student writing group (Rebellious Chingone), meets twice a week (Tuesdays from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM and Thursdays from 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) and hosts periodic writing retreats. To inquire about this writing group, please email us at ( writeon@ucsc.edu ).
To make a tutoring appointment, click the VOCES link below. Once you arrive at the scheduling website, click "Schedules" in the top navigation bar and select the "Spring 2025 Grad Student Tutoring - VOCES" schedule. Click on VOCES to make your appointment.
