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.

July 3, 2025
Audiobook Released for Community is the Way

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 websitedownload 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.)

July 3, 2025
WAC Journal Releases a New Issue

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.

June 26, 2025
Peitho Releases a 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

June 23, 2025
WLN Releases Its Summer 2025 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

June 10, 2025
WAC Clearinghouse Announces Interviews Series

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. 

June 5, 2025
Double Helix Moves to Rolling Publication Model

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.

June 3, 2025
Double Helix Releases Volume 12

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.

May 29, 2025
Call for IWAC 2027 Conference Host

Submit a proposal to host the IWAC 2027 Conference.

May 17, 2025
Literate Activity Call for Proposals

Literate ActivityPerspectives on Textual Practices in the World welcomes submissions for the inaugural issue to be published in Spring 2026.

May 14, 2025
Beyond Conventions Podcast Releases Episode 4

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