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 2, 2024
- Across the Disciplines Releases a Special Issue on ePortfolios Across the Disciplines
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The new issue, guest edited by Christopher Basgier, Helen L. Chen, & Amy Cicchino, contains work by more than two dozen author. View the special issue.
- December 24, 2023
- New Additions to the Practices & Possibilities Editorial Team
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Kelly Ritter, Chair of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and Professor of Writing and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Jagadish Paudel, doctoral candidate and Instructor at the University of Texas at El Paso, have joined the editorial team of the Practices & Possibilities book series.
- December 22, 2023
- WLN Releases a New Issue
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The Winter 2023 issue of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship is now available. View the issue.
- December 18, 2023
- Open Words Releases a New Issue
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A special issue on multilingual student writers in higher education, edited by Jagadish Paudel, is now available. View the issue.
- December 11, 2023
- Across the Disciplines Releases its Twentieth Volume
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Across the Disciplines reached a milestone this month, releasing its twentieth volume. Edited by Michael Cripps and Julia Voss, the new issue includes work by more than a dozen scholars. View the issue.
- November 14, 2023
- WAC Clearinghouse Seeks Book Series Editors
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The WAC Clearinghouse is pleased to announce openings for positions as book series editors and associate editors. Detailed are provided in the full post. For full consideration, please apply before December 4, 2023.
- October 31, 2023
- TextGenEd Seeks New Contributors
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The editors of TextGenEd, published in the WAC Repository, invite submissions for writing assignments using a range of text generation technologies (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Markov chains, various Python libraries, etc.) to be included in a new, "Continuing Experiments" section of TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies. The work of teaching writing is a constant process of experimentation, revision, and collaboration, particularly when teaching with technologies that shift and evolve quickly.
- September 19, 2023
- WLN Joins the Clearinghouse
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The Clearinghouse is pleased to announce that WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship has become a member of its family of open-access publications.
- September 11, 2023
- The WAC Clearinghouse Names Four New Scholar Fellows
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The WAC Clearinghouse is delighted to announce its inaugural fellowship recipients for 2023-2024: Hannah Locher, Macy Dunklin, Leah Heilig, and Stephie Minjung Kang.
- August 30, 2023
- Prompt Journal Seeks Associate Editors
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Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments seeks applications for associate editors. Associate editors of Prompt publicize the journal to members of their fields and assist in the editorial process for submissions in their area(s) of relevant disciplinary expertise.