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 16, 2019
- Become a Member of AWAC
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AWAC -- the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum -- is now open for membership. Individual and institutional memberships are now available for the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum.
- January 4, 2019
- 2019 STEMwrite Institute Accepting Applications
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The 2019 STEMwrite Institute invites faculty teams from the biological sciences to a multi-day institute that will (1) acquaint them with evidence that indicates positive impacts assigned writing can have on conceptual learning, and (2) provide a sequenced workshop in which they will develop brief, high-impact writing prompts to implement in large-enrollment introductory biology courses.
- October 14, 2018
- 7th International Conference on Writing Analytics - Deadline Extended
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The 7th International Conference on Writing Analytics: Broadening the Community will be held January 25 and 26, 2019, at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. Learn more about the conference and its call for proposals.
- September 17, 2018
- EAC Deadline Extended
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Due to server problems when Hong Kong was hit by a super typhoon (Category 4 hurricane equivalent) in the last two days, the deadline for abstract submission to the 2nd English Across the Curriculum (EAC) Conference is postponed until this Wednesday 19 September 2018, 12.00 midnight Hong Kong time.
- September 14, 2018
- CFP for the Pedagogy & Popular Culture area of SWPACA
- September 3, 2018
- OJELA, Winter/Spring 2019: Leading Literate Lives Call for Manuscripts
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The Ohio Journal of English Language Arts has issued a call for manuscripts for the Winter/Spring 2019 issue, focused on the theme, Leading Literate Lives. The issue will “examine the role of literacy in all subject areas and the intersection of content area literacy and ELA.” OJELA is a publication of OCTELA, the Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts.
Submissions are due by October 15, 2018.
- July 31, 2018
- 2018 English Across the Curriculum Conference
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The second International Conference on English Across the Curriculum (EAC) will be held at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on December 4th and 5th, 2018, with pre-conference workshops on December 3rd, 2018.
- July 26, 2018
- WAC-GO Leadership Opportunities
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WAC-GO is excited to announce available Leadership Team positions for the 2018-2019 academic year.
- July 23, 2018
- OWC Community Call for Submissions
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The OWC Community is seeking of submissions on a range of topics that impact the work we do in writing cetners online.
- June 20, 2018
- IWAC 2020
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Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, has been selected as the next site for the International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. The conference will be held from June 3rd through 7th, 2020. The WAC Summer Institute will precede the conference.