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.

May 21, 2026
Adapting the Past to Reimagine Possible Futures Chosen for AWAC Summer Reads

AWAC’s Mentoring Committee is excited to announce this year’s AWAC Summer Reads book, Adapting the Past to Reimagine Possible Futures: Celebrating and Critiquing WAC at 50

May 20, 2026
Writing Worldviews: Extended Scholarly Conversations from IWAC 2023

Framed by the IWAC 2023 conference theme of WAC in transitional times, Writing Worldviews: Extended Scholarly Conversations from IWAC 2023, edited by Christopher Basgier, Terry Myers Zawacki, Magnus Gustafsson, Sue Hum, and Maureen Mathison, offers a diversity of perspectives on growth and change in the field amid social, political, educational, technological, and global pressures.

May 18, 2026
Seeking a New Editor for Practices & Possibilities

The WAC Clearinghouse seeks applications to join the editorial team of the Practices & Possibilities book series. The series, which has been quite active, addresses the full range of practices within the field of writing studies, including instructional practices, research methodologies, and professional practices. The successful candidates will join a collegial team of editors who meet monthly to discuss submissions and reviews of book proposal and manuscripts and to discuss and set the overall direction of the series. The editor will also serve as a member of the Clearinghouse Editorial Board. Learn more.

May 14, 2026
Research is the Poetry: Poetic Inquiry for Writing Studies Researchers

New this month, Research is the Poetry demonstrates the promise of poetic inquiry, a blending of poetry and research. 

April 14, 2026
Peitho Releases Its Spring 2026 Issue

Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric has released volume 28, issue 3. The new issue includes work from Olivia Rowland, Jessica Edens McCrary, Mollie Stambler, Jade Yee Onn, Rhiannon Zwieg, Jo Christian, Anna Sicari, Caelan Chew. It also featured the collaboratively written ""Dispatch from Minneapolis: On Feminist Rhetorics of Resistance," led by Liane Malinowski and Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday, with contributions from Sara N. Beam, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, Curtis Ladrillo Chamblee, John Logie, Maddi Melchert, Nicole Montana, Matthew Tchepikova-Treon, Molly Vasich, Allison Vincent, and Marcus Woodman. View the new issue.

March 17, 2026
WLN Releases Its Winter 2026 Issue

WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship has released volume 50, issue 2. The new issue features work by Kristi Girdharry, Salena Anderson, Jonathan Bull, Ameena Madani, Zainab Albujasim, Kate Garahan, April Markowski, and Meara Haggerty. View the new issue.

February 19, 2026
Academic Labor: Research &Artistry Releases Its Latest Issue

Academic Labor: Research and Artistry has released its ninth volume. The new issue includes work by Ann Marie Francis, Christine Sharp, Beatriz Ramirez, Nicole Kenley, Sarah Ceja, Suman Dey, Maria Novotny, Ghada Al-Akhdar, Laila ElSerty, Aliaa N. Hamad, Joseph Robertshaw, Brian McShane, Rachel McShane, Jack Christian, and Joel Smith. View the new issue.

January 28, 2026
WAC Clearinghouse Seeks Social Media Coordinator

The WAC Clearinghouse is currently seeking applications for the position of social media coordinator. The social media coordinator will be responsible for publicizing:

  • scholarly publications and instructional and professional resources available through the WAC Clearinghouse;
  • opportunities to serve on various WAC Clearinghouse editorial teams; and
  • other activities associated with the WAC Clearinghouse.

Deadline for applications is February 9, 2026. View the full position description.

January 26, 2026
Peitho Releases Its Winter 2026 Issue

Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric has released its Winter 2026 issue, volume 28, number 2. The new issue includes work by more than two dozen contributors, many of whose work appears in a cluster conversation on feminist rhetorical approaches to visual culture, which is edited by Rachel E. Molko, Alexis Sabryn Walston, and Hannah Taylor. View the new issue.

January 21, 2026
WAC Research Networking Event

The AWAC Research and Publications committee invites all WAC leaders and researchers at all stages of their careers (including graduate students) to a special online research networking event.