News, Events, and Calls

The editors of Bale: An Annotated Bibliography of Narrative and Storywork are pleased to announce its availability. Bale is a dynamic and collaborative project designed to bring together voices and texts across storytelling scholarship in and beyond the field of rhetoric, composition, and writing studies.

WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship has released its latest issue, volume 49, number 1. The new issue includes work by Ted Roggenbuck, Michael Pemberton, Susanne Hall, Michelle Stallone Brown, Kelly R. Chermack, Madysen Sinclair, Tobias Ball, Lynne Christy Anderson, Megan Holly, and Abigail Patchen. View the issue.

A new issue of Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric has been released. A special issue on "Small and Subtle Feminist Rhetorical Doings," volume 26, issue 4 is edited by Jessi Thomsen and Tammie M. Kennedy. Read the special issue.

The editorial team at the blog Connecting Writing Center Across Borders, is seeking applications for a production editor. Created in 2015, the blog is part of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, an open-access, peer-review scholarly journal, published on the WAC Clearinghouse. Check out the full call for details and how to apply.

The Seventeenth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC 2025) is now accepting proposals for sessions and pre-conference workshops. You can submit proposals at https://proposals.colostate.edu.

A new edition of TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments is now available. Edited by Carly Schnitzler, Annette Vee, and Tim Laquintano, the 15 assignments featured in the new edition focus on using LLMs to use their embodied, emotive selves and experiences to inform the writing and thinking students carry out, all while using Generative AI to support rather than supplant, their humanity.

Double Helix invites submissions of research articles, reports from the field, experimental essays, scholarly notes, and book reviews on critical thinking and writing pedagogy. October 15 is the recommended deadline for work to be considered for Volume 12 (2024). For more information about DH, please visit the WAC Clearinghouse: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/. Queries may be directed to doublehelix@quinnipiac.edu.

Open Words: Access and English Studies is now currently accepting abstracts for its spring 2026 issues. For more information, please view the call for abstracts on the journal's submissions page.