The Governing Board of the Sirico Scholars’ Workshop is pleased to announce the 2025 Sirico Scholars’ Workshop to be held in St. Marys, Georgia from July 24-27, 2025

Do you have an article in progress that you would like to publish in the August publication cycle? Are you a new scholar looking to build a scholarship community? Are you an experienced scholar looking to workshop a work in progress? If your answer to any of these questions is “yes,” then the Sirico Scholars’ Workshop is for you!

What is the Sirico Scholars’ Workshop?

The Sirico Scholars’ Workshop is an opportunity for both new and experienced legal writing scholars to gather in small groups to provide critiques and support for each other’s works in process. Each participant is expected to have a work in process that, while not yet completed, is at a stage of development where other scholars can review their work and provide constructive feedback.

What can you expect from participating?

Twelve scholars will be selected from the pool of applicants to participate in the Workshop. The Governing Board will form synergistic groups of three scholars to be led by an experienced scholar mentor. Each small group member is expected to read the other group members’ work and offer constructive critique/feedback, and the scholar mentor will read each member’s work and offer constructive critique/feedback. Each day, the small groups will gather for at least one session where the focus will be one group member’s work in progress. The Workshop includes a daily large group session, as well, on broader topics such as the publication process generally, making time to write, and using research assistants and librarians effectively. Breakfast and lunch will also be provided daily, and dinners usually occur in a restaurant setting. Most importantly, scholars will have significant blocks of time to work independently, without interruption, to complete their article. A sample schedule is included below for your frame of reference.

When? Where? What else?

The workshop will occur in St. Marys, Georgia, from July 24-27, 2025. This timing coincides with SEALS, which many in our community attend for the Writing Connections programming. Given the dates for Applied Legal Storytelling and the ALWD Biennial Conference, the Governing Board selected this date to allow scholars sufficient time to develop their articles before the Workshop while leaving a sufficient window for final revisions before the August submission cycle. The registration fee for each participant is $425, which includes lodging and most meals. Each participant must pay for their own transportation costs.

Praise for the Sirico Scholars’ Workshop

• “[Sirico Scholars] was one of the most pivotal events of my legal writing career.” (Ruth Anne Robbins)
• “I was able to turn 10k words into 20k over the course of the workshop and began submitting it immediately after the conclusion.” (Ashley Krenelka Chase)
• “The article was my ‘major opus’ for my tenure application. . . . [It] completed my successful tenure package.” (Gail Stephenson)
• “We got great suggestions about the substance of the article, and we also got very practical suggestions about shopping it. We left understanding so much more about what our goals were and how to achieve them.” (Laura Graham)

If you have a current research project that would benefit from a supportive group review and critique, please consider participating in this Workshop. Let’s make your article the next success story!

Conference Planners

Elizabeth Berenguer, Kristin Gerdy, and Brian Larson

Co-Chairs of the Sirico Scholars Workshop Governing Board