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.
- August 15, 2023
- IWAC 2023 Edited Collection Call for Proposals
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The call for proposals is available for Writing Worldviews: The 2023 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference Edited Collection. Responding to the crucial moment at which we stand as scholars and practitioners of writing and communicating across disciplines, the collection focuses on the role we have in using the power of language to affect worldviews and address calls for linguistic and social justice.
- July 26, 2023
- PARS in Charge: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Program Leaders
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PARS in Charge explores the complexity of administrative positions within writing programs and how online courses make administration even more complex.
- July 24, 2023
- Award Winning Books from the Clearinghouse
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The summer awards season has been kind to Clearinghouse authors and editors, with three books receiving a total of four awards.
- July 19, 2023
- Rethinking Peer Review: Critical Reflections on a Pedagogical Practice
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New book interrogates peer review from both practical and theoretical perspectives.
- July 12, 2023
- Adapting the Past to Reimagine Possible Futures: Celebrating and Critiquing WAC at 50
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New book developed from presentations at the 15th IWAC Conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of the WAC movement.
- July 5, 2023
- Prompt Joins the Clearinghouse
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Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments has joined the WAC Clearinghouse family of journals. Prompt is a biannual, refereed online journal that publishes academic writing assignments accompanied by reflective essays.
- July 4, 2023
- Nonfiction, the Teaching of Writing, and the Influence of Richard Lloyd-Jones
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New collection focuses on the development of the teaching of writing over the last 50 years.
- June 1, 2023
- WAC Clearinghouse Announces Three Paid Fellowships
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The WAC Clearinghouse is delighted to announce fellowship opportunities for new and early career scholars who are interested in expanding their editorial and administrative experience through involvement in one or more of our publishing venues. The fellowships include stipends of $1000 or $2000, depending on their length.
- May 25, 2023
- New Book: Adapting the Past to Reimagine Possible Futures
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The Clearinghouse is pleased to announce the publication of Adapting the Past to Reimagine Possible Futures: Celebrating and Critiquing WAC at 50. Developed from presentations at the Fifteenth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, this edited collection celebrates the 50th anniversary of the WAC movement while also identifying innovative directions for writing pedagogies, program building and impact, and program mobilization.
- April 21, 2023
- Apply for an AWAC Research Initiative Grant
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The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC) seeks applications for their Research Initiative Grants.