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.

October 4, 2024
WLN Releases Its Fall Issue

WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship has released its latest issue, volume 49, number 1. The new issue includes work by Ted Roggenbuck, Michael Pemberton, Susanne Hall, Michelle Stallone Brown, Kelly R. Chermack, Madysen Sinclair, Tobias Ball, Lynne Christy Anderson, Megan Holly, and Abigail Patchen. View the issue.

October 2, 2024
Peitho Releases New Issue

A new issue of Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric has been released. A special issue on "Small and Subtle Feminist Rhetorical Doings," volume 26, issue 4 is edited by Jessi Thomsen and Tammie M. Kennedy. Read the special issue.

September 27, 2024
Connecting Writing Center Across Borders Seeks Production Editor

The editorial team at the blog Connecting Writing Center Across Borders, is seeking applications for a production editor. Created in 2015, the blog is part of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, an open-access, peer-review scholarly journal, published on the WAC Clearinghouse. Check out the full call for details and how to apply.

September 21, 2024
IWAC 2025 Accepting Session Proposals

The Seventeenth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC 2025) is now accepting proposals for sessions and pre-conference workshops. You can submit proposals at https://proposals.colostate.edu.

August 14, 2024
New Edition of TextGenEd Released

A new edition of TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments is now available. Edited by Carly Schnitzler, Annette Vee, and Tim Laquintano, the 15 assignments featured in the new edition focus on using LLMs to use their embodied, emotive selves and experiences to inform the writing and thinking students carry out, all while using Generative AI to support rather than supplant, their humanity.

August 13, 2024
Double Helix Invites Submissions

Double Helix invites submissions of research articles, reports from the field, experimental essays, scholarly notes, and book reviews on critical thinking and writing pedagogy. October 15 is the recommended deadline for work to be considered for Volume 12 (2024). For more information about DH, please visit the WAC Clearinghouse: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/. Queries may be directed to doublehelix@quinnipiac.edu.

August 10, 2024
Open Words Announces Call for Its Spring 2026 Issue

Open Words: Access and English Studies is now currently accepting abstracts for its spring 2026 issues. For more information, please view the call for abstracts on the journal's submissions page.

July 30, 2024
RLEE Releases Its Second Issue

The  second issue of Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura, published by the WAC Clearinghouse with the academic endorsement of ALES, has been published. This special issue, entitled "Text/Discoursive Genres: From Analytical Approaches to Teachable Dimensions of Language Practices," was edited by Vera Lúcia Lopes Cristovão and Regina Celi Mendes Pereira. You can read and download it at https://wac.colostate.edu/rlee.

July 26, 2024
Journal of Basic Writing Releases Volume 42, Issue 2

The Journal of Basic Writing has released its Fall 2023 issue (following a one-year embargo) on the Clearinghouse. Volume 42, Issue 2 includes work by Austin Bailey, Caroline Wilkinson, Charissa Che, Tom Slagle, and Misun Dokko.

July 17, 2024
Prompt Releases New Special Issue

Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments has released volume 8, issue 2. The special issue—In Limine: Writing assignments at the transition from undergraduate to law school—is edited by Lindsay Head, Antonio Elefano, and Brian N. Larson. The issue includes work by Sara F. Cates, Mark A. Hannah, Tracy Norton, Kirsten K. Davis, Susan Tanner, Ryan Roderick, and Rima Sirota.