News, Events, and Calls
- 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.
- January 19, 2021
- Statements Released on January 6th Violence at the Capitol
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The WAC Clearinghouse endorses statements issued by the Council of Writing Program Administrators and the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
- December 6, 2020
- WAC Awards Announced
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The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and the WAC Clearinghouse are seeking nominations for awards that recognize contributions to the WAC community through scholarship and achievements. Awardees will be recognized at the upcoming International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC) in August 2021.
- November 9, 2020
- Call for Proposals: 3rd EAC Conference
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Proposals are now being accepted for the 3rd International Conference on English Across the Curriculum (EAC), which is co-organized by a cross-institutional team drawn from leading universities in Hong Kong. The EAC 2021 Conference will be held online from 20-21 May 2021.
- August 28, 2020
- Watch "Discussion on Writing Across the Curriculum"
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Middle East-North Africa Writing Centers Alliance (MENAWCA) recently hosted a COVID-19 Discussion Series session on WAC.
- August 26, 2020
- New Book on Transient Literacies in Action
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Transient Literacies in Action: Composing with the Mobile Surround, by Stacey Pigg, draws on qualitative fieldwork across a coffeehouse and learning commons to trace how 22 writers practice transient literacies with their phones and laptops while engaging in composing activities that range from seminar papers to amateur video game production.
- August 20, 2020
- Join an AWAC Writing Group
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The AWAC Research and Publications Committee has announced a new initiative to match interested members together into writing groups.
- August 18, 2020
- New Book on Lifespan Writing Research
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Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence, edited by Ryan J. Dippre and Talinn Phillips, builds on the three themes that emerged from the 2018 inaugural lifespan writing conference—identity, society, and theory—to further the study of writing through the lifespan.
- May 9, 2020
- Double Helix Announces Call for Submissions
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Double Helix has released the call for submissions on the topic, Critical Thinking and Writing in the Age of Pandemics. The journal editors invite Reports from the Field and scholarly Notes related to the effects of coronavirus—campus closures, social distancing, courses moved online, etc.—on pedagogy related to critical thinking and writing.
- April 14, 2020
- Writing Spaces Announces CFP for Fourth Volume
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Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is accepting new submissions for Volume 4. Open this news item to view the CFP.
- April 9, 2020
- IWAC 2020 is Postponed
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The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and the organizing group for the 2020 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference have postponed the conference and the WAC Summer Institute, which was scheduled to precede the conference. The conference will not be held on August 4-7, 2021.