News, Events, and Calls

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.

The  second issue of Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura, published by the WAC Clearinghouse with the academic endorsement of ALES, has been published. This special issue, entitled "Text/Discoursive Genres: From Analytical Approaches to Teachable Dimensions of Language Practices," was edited by Vera Lúcia Lopes Cristovão and Regina Celi Mendes Pereira. You can read and download it at https://wac.colostate.edu/rlee.

The Journal of Basic Writing has released its Fall 2023 issue (following a one-year embargo) on the Clearinghouse. Volume 42, Issue 2 includes work by Austin Bailey, Caroline Wilkinson, Charissa Che, Tom Slagle, and Misun Dokko.

Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments has released volume 8, issue 2. The special issue—In Limine: Writing assignments at the transition from undergraduate to law school—is edited by Lindsay Head, Antonio Elefano, and Brian N. Larson. The issue includes work by Sara F. Cates, Mark A. Hannah, Tracy Norton, Kirsten K. Davis, Susan Tanner, Ryan Roderick, and Rima Sirota.

We are delighted to announce that the spring 2024 issue of Peitho, the peer-reviewed journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, is now available on the Clearinghouse. This is the first issue released through the WAC Clearinghouse and is the first major step in the new partnership between Peitho and the Clearinghouse. Congratulations to the journal's co-editors, Rebecca Dingo and Clancy Ratliff, for overseeing the move to the journal's new website. And many thanks to Hannah Taylor for her work in producing the new volume.

WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship has released its 2024 summer issue. The new issue includes work from Michael Albright, Lori B. Baker, Russell Mayo, Tina Matuchniak, and Romaisha Rahman. View the issue on the WLN main page.

The sixth volume of the Writing Spaces series is now available on the Clearinghouse, on the Writing Spaces website, and in print through Parlor Press. Technical Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 6, edited by Kirk St.Amant and Pavel Zemliansky, explores writing in technical and professional communication. Like earlier books in the series, it continues the tradition of covering a wide range of topics about writing.