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The audiobook for Aimée Knight's book Community is the Way: Engaged Writing and Designing for Transformative Change is now available. You can listen for free while you're on the Clearinghouse website, download the audio book as a Zip file and then extract the files to a folder on your device, or access it through Audible. (Please note that Audible charges a small fee for the audiobook.)
The WAC Journal has released volume 35. The issue includes articles by Tara Coleman, Dominique Zino, Solaire A. Finkenstaedt-Quinn, Isabella Sperry, Alicia Romero, Ginger V. Shultz, Analeigh E. Horton, Lucy Bryan, Dayna S. Henry, Sarah R. Blackstone, Anna Maria Johnson, Lacie Knight, Megan Mericle, J. Patrick Coleman, Julie Zilles, and Lacey Wootton. It also includes a special forum on adult learners, edited by Macy Dunklin and including articles by Jamie Hudson, Kendon Kurzer, Natasha J. Lee, Amy Macias-Stowe, Mary Her, Nieva Manalo, Collie Fulford, Stefanie Frigo, Yaseen Abdul-Malik, Thomas Kelly, Adrienne Long, Stuart Parrish, and Gabrielle Isabel Kelenyi. View the New Issue.
Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric has released volume 27, issue 3. The issue includes work by Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Saurabh Anand, Florianne Jimenez, Abantika Dhar , Ridita Mizan, Nabila Hijazi, Sarah Cathryn Majed Dweik, Bernardita M. Yunis Varas, Belinda Walzer, Tarez Samra Graban, Jennifer Nish, Sweta Baniyaa, Thomas Gurinskas, Jessica Edens McCrary, and Tommie Leigh McPhetridge. View the new issue.
WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship has release volume 49, issue 4. The new issue contains work by Lin Li, Alana Kuhlman, Amy Rushall, Margaret Ervin, Gabrielle Stanley, Olivia Mathers, and Timoteo Pereira Neves. Read the new issue.
The WAC Clearinghouse is pleased to the lauch of Emerging Voices, a collection of interviews from scholars who are currently making and remaking the field of writing studies. Led by Zak Muñoz, the series provides insights into the embodied experience of writing in our discipline, guiding newcomers as they seek to make a home in the field and providing information about new and potentially critical developments in writing studies. To nominate individuals for inclusion in the series, please visit our nomination form. Self-nominations are encouraged.
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing has moved to a rolling publication model and is now inviting submissions for Volume 13 (2025). The journal publishes a range of scholarly work—from research articles to notes—on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about Double Helix, please visit the journal's main page.
Double Helix has released its twelfth volume, "Critical Thinking and Writing: A New Episteme." The volume includes work by Adam Katz, Christopher Eaton, Shiva Mainaly, Peaches Hash, Kimberly A. Bain, Christine M. Garcia, and Michael Pak. View the new issue.
Submit a proposal to host the IWAC 2027 Conference.
Literate Activity: Perspectives on Textual Practices in the World welcomes submissions for the inaugural issue to be published in Spring 2026.
he podcast Beyond Conventions: Global Dialogues on Writing Studies has released its fourth episode, a conversation with the editors of the forthcoming edited collection Beyond Conventions, Global Dialogues and Writing Studies, which will appear in the Latin America Section of the International Exchanges on the Study of Writing book series.