News, Events, and Calls

Middle East-North Africa Writing Centers Alliance (MENAWCA) recently hosted a COVID-19 Discussion Series session on WAC.

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.

The AWAC Research and Publications Committee has announced a new initiative to match interested members together into writing groups. 

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.

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.

Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is accepting new submissions for Volume 4.  Open this news item to view the CFP.

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.

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.