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.
Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments seeks applications for a Site Editor and for an Associate Production Editor. This call will remain open until positions are filled, but preference will be given to applications received by April 19, 2024.
WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship has released volume 48, number 3. View the new issue. WLN has also published its fourth Digital Edited Collection. The Post-Pandemic Writing Center, edited by Sarah Rice, John Katunich, and Noreen Lape, can be viewed on the DEC series page.
Volume 8, issue 1 of Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments is now available. View articles by Tolonda Henderson, Adrian Villalta-Cerdas, Carolyne M. King, Natalia Andrievskikh, Chadene Z. Tremaglio, and Michelle L. Kraczkowski.
All 48 volumes of WLN (A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship) are now available in open-access format and searchable from the journal's homepage as well as the "Past Issues" page at https://wac.colostate.edu/
To accompany the upcoming special section guest edited by Macy Dunklin of Texas A&M University, The WAC Journal is sponsoring the Inaugural Journal-based Mini-conference in WAC and WID. The conference, to be held virtually May 9, 2024, serves as another opportunity for WAC scholars and practitioners to gather and share research and experiences.
ALRA has issued a new call for a contributions to a special issue on poverty in academia.
Four new associate editors have been selected for two Clearinghouse book series: Across the Disciplines Books and Perspectives on Writing. Their appointments emerged from a highly competitive international search. We are delighted to welcome them to the Clearinghouse team.
A little over four months after the publication of TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies, we're thrilled to highlight another 16 open-access assignments that enable teachers to integrate text generation technologies into their courses and respond to this crucial moment. Here, we publish the first of our planned semi-annual addendums: Continuing Experiments is a sustained response to the constant change that is built into teaching writing with text generation technologies. Explore all of the January 2024 experiments.
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.
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.