Long Night Against Procrastination

Table of contents

1. 1. Long Night of Writing on March 5, 2026
   2. No time for the Long Night? We're here for you all year round!
   3. Review

LNDS years: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

Long Night of Writing on March 5, 2026

Save the date and turn the night into a text: on Thursday, March 5, probably from 4 p.m. to midnight with short workshops, lectures and writing advice.

The program and registration are expected to be published on the SLUB website for the Long Night of Writing one month in advance.

You don't want to miss the start of registration and receive all the latest information about the program by e-mail? Then sign up for our list of interested parties on OPAL.

No time for the Long Night? We're here for you all year round!

You can use the writing center's services free of charge all year round. Simply book an appointment for a writing consultation and take a look at the website to see what support the Writing Center has to offer students.

Review

LNDS years: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

2024: Thursday, March 7, from 4 p.m. to midnight with short workshops, lectures and writing advice.

2023 : In 2023 there was no review, but an outlook with information on the program of the LNDS 2023

2022 : In 2022, the LNDS took place for the first time in cooperation with several universities, writing centers and libraries. Here you can find our review of the LNDS 2022 and an interview with the organizers of the LNDS 2022.

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2021: The first purely digital Long Night of Writing with over 100 participants was full of workshops, consultations and opportunities to exchange ideas: This review of the LNDS 2021 provides an insight.

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2020: The Long Night of Writing 2020 took place for the first time in the SLUB TextLab on August-Bebel-Straße. 110 participants attended various workshops, consultation formats and strolled through the Writing Process Walk or "pedaled" a smoothie on the TU Environmental Management's "smoothie bike":

Program of the LNDS 2020 as PDF (not barrier-free)

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2019

Report: That was the Long Night of Writing 2019.

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2018: We are delighted about the lively participation in the LNdS 2018, which was held under the motto "together we will put the inner bastard to flight". Around 130 writers - students, doctoral candidates and lecturers - made their way to the SLUB on March 1 to write together between 6 pm and midnight. From the very start of the event in the lecture hall, the participants warmed up together with the help of a classic writing method, desk yoga in a large group relaxed the mind and limbs and international students were also carried away by the momentum of the joint writing night through parallel translation and offers in English.

Sufficient desks were reserved in the library's large reading room for starting, continuing or even completing writing projects, and writing advice for students and doctoral candidates took place in front of the hall. Open offers in the lecture hall, such as the writing process walk, group writing tables, help desks for Word, Excel, LaTex and speed dating to find a suitable writing or study group, opened up a wide range of ideas for staying on the ball with writing. If you were really in a writing slump, you could also get inspiration from 15 impulse workshops on academic writing. And in the end, it was perhaps the stimulating conversation over an evening soup or a late coffee that led one or the other back to the central theme of their own argumentation.

We are already looking forward to the next Long Night of Writing with you, which will of course take place on the first Thursday in March in 2019, as it does every year!

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2017: 150 interested students, doctoral candidates and lecturers took part in the 1st Long Night of Writing in the Viktor-Klemperer-Saal of the SLUB:

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