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 18, 2020
- New Book on Lifespan Writing Research
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Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence, edited by Ryan J. Dippre and Talinn Phillips, builds on the three themes that emerged from the 2018 inaugural lifespan writing conference—identity, society, and theory—to further the study of writing through the lifespan.
- May 9, 2020
- Double Helix Announces Call for Submissions
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Double Helix has released the call for submissions on the topic, Critical Thinking and Writing in the Age of Pandemics. The journal editors invite Reports from the Field and scholarly Notes related to the effects of coronavirus—campus closures, social distancing, courses moved online, etc.—on pedagogy related to critical thinking and writing.
- April 14, 2020
- Writing Spaces Announces CFP for Fourth Volume
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Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing is accepting new submissions for Volume 4. Open this news item to view the CFP.
- April 9, 2020
- IWAC 2020 is Postponed
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The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and the organizing group for the 2020 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference have postponed the conference and the WAC Summer Institute, which was scheduled to precede the conference. The conference will not be held on August 4-7, 2021.
- March 26, 2020
- WAC Publication and Achievement Awards Announced
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The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and the WAC Clearinghouse are seeking nominations for awards that recognize contributions to the WAC community through scholarship and achievements.
- March 16, 2020
- Rockbrook Elementary Students Working Across the Curriculum
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Rockbrook Elementary students and staff are working hard today across the curriculum.
- March 13, 2020
- CCCC WAC Standing Group/AWAC Mentoring Committee Remote Discussion
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Given the cancellation of CCCC, the WAC Standing Group and the AWAC Mentoring Committee will hold a remote discussion about WAC on Friday, March 27th from 4:30-5:30 Eastern Time via Zoom.
- March 5, 2020
- Behind the Scenes of WAC Program Development: Workshop at CCCC
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CANCELLED: The WAC Standing Group Workshop has been cancelled as a result of COVID-19.
- March 4, 2020
- WAC Standing Group Meeting at CCCC
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CANCELLED: The WAC Standing Group meeting has been cancelled as a result of COVID-19.
- December 31, 2019
- ALES III International Conference CFP
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The Latin American Association of Writing Studies in Higher Education and Professional Contexts, ALES, has announced the call for proposals, deadlines, registration fees and plenary speakers for its third international conference, which will be held in November, 9th, 10th and 11th, 2020 at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brasil.