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.

April 19, 2021
EAC Registration is Open

Registration is open for the 3rd International Conference on English Across the Curriculum online from 20-22 May. Registration is completely free of charge. The organizers write that they have an exciting schedule of presentations and discussions on May 20th and 21st and workshops on May 22nd.

March 15, 2021
Contribute to the WAC Repository

The Association for Writing across the Curriculum and the WAC Clearinghouse invite you to contribute to the WAC Repository, a digital collection of WAC resources pertaining to WAC pedagogy and administration hosted on the WAC Clearinghouse website.

January 19, 2021
Statements Released on January 6th Violence at the Capitol

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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.