News, Events, and Calls

Traci Gardner
- Traci Gardner, News Editor

We publish news from the WAC and writing communities. Visit to catch up on upcoming conferences, see calls for proposals, notices of newly published books and other scholarly projects, stories of WAC programs and practitioners in the news. If you have WAC news you want to share, please send a note to WACClearinghouseNews@gmail.com.

September 14, 2022
Birkwood Primary Students Write in Art

Year 5 Students at Birkwood Primary focus on artist Peter Thorpe in their WAC projects.

September 12, 2022
WAC PD for Marlin Middle School Teachers

Marlin Middle School teachers (Central Texas) participate in WAC professional development.

September 9, 2022
NYC Writing Project Support for WAC

The New York City Writing Project supports WAC with recent workshop.

September 8, 2022
WAC in Hampton City Schools

Students write across the curriculum while studying Virginia state maps.

September 7, 2022
Adapting VALUEs: Tracing the Life of a Rubric through Institutional Ethnography

New open-access book by Jennifer Grouling traces the use of the American Association of Colleges and Universities' VALUE rubric for written communication at two small universities.

September 5, 2022
Alabama Middle School Focuses on RACES Writing Strategy

Students at Lott Middle School, in Citronelle, AL, are using the RACES writing strategy to write responses to readings across the curriculum.

September 2, 2022
IWAC 2023 Submissions Close September 15

There’s still time to propose a session to the International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) 2023 conference. Scholarship applications are also being accepted.

September 1, 2022
Writing in Science & History

Students at West Ewell are writing across the science and history curriculum.

July 19, 2022
Graduate Assistant Survey on Writing Program Labor

Graduate assistants do important work and take on a large share of undergraduate teaching, yet this labor is often overlooked and undervalued. Please consider completing a doctoral research questionnaire on graduate student labor concerns.

May 31, 2022
5th Graders Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month

5th Graders Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with WAC at Demarest Elementary.