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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.