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.

September 6, 2025
TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments #3

The third update to TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments (Eds. Carly Schnitzler, Annette Vee, and Tim Laquintano) includes 23 assignments that feature AI or text generation technology in creative and innovative ways.

September 1, 2025
An Imagined America: Language, Literacy, Identity, and Coloniality at Syrian Protestant College, 1866รป1920

An Imagined America: Language, Literacy, Identity, and Coloniality at Syrian Protestant College, 1866–1920, by Lisa R. Arnold, presents a historical, transnational, translingual, and decolonial perspective on questions of identity, literacy, language, culture, and citizenship.

August 31, 2025
Changing Paths of Academic Lives

New from the Practices & Possibilities book series, Changing Paths of Academic Lives: Revising How We Understand Higher Education, 1960s to 2020s and Beyond, edited by Harvey J. Graff, examines the misunderstandings surrounding “academic paths,” or the variety of careers that constitute in full or in part higher education.

August 27, 2025
AWAC Releases Statement on Generative AI and WAC

The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum has published its Statement on AI and Writing Across the Curriculum, a community-built resource for teaching with and about AI while keeping writing as human-centered inquiry. The new statement addresses guiding principles, classroom strategies, student guidance, and policy issues, among other areas. Read the full statement on the AWAC website.

August 16, 2025
Prompt Releases New Issue

Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments has released its latest issue, volume 9, number 2, a special issue edited by Ethan Youngerman: Writing Programs as Intellectual Ecosystems: Traditions and Innovations from New York University. The special issue includes work by Jono Mischkot, William Morgan, Amira Pierce, Justin Warner Amanda Kotch, Megan Murtha, Zach Udko, Chen Lin, and Courtney Chatellier. View the new issue.

August 10, 2025
New Book: ? Artificial Infrastructures ?

New book, Artificial Infrastructures, investigates how generative AI is reshaping the work of technical and professional writing across high-technology industries—from image analysis and documentation to medical manufacturing.

July 28, 2025
Across the Disciplines Releases Volume 22

Across the Disciplines has released volume 22, issue1/2. The new issue includes articles by Tereza Joy Kramer, Claire Williams, Joe Zeccardi, and Joshua Rose; Tyler Skorczewski and Justin Nicholes; Christopher Basgier, Derek Ross, Norman E. Youngblood, and Hannah Smith; and Christy Goldsmith and Julie Birt. It also includes book reviews by S. Fain Riopelle and Shana Scudder. 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.