News, Events, and Calls

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.

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.
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.

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

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

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. 

Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing has moved to a rolling publication model and is now inviting submissions for Volume 13 (2025). The journal publishes a range of scholarly work—from research articles to notes—on writing and critical thinking pedagogy. For more information about Double Helix, please visit the journal’s main page.

Double Helix has released its twelfth volume, "Critical Thinking and Writing: A New Episteme." The volume includes work by Adam Katz, Christopher Eaton, Shiva Mainaly, Peaches Hash, Kimberly A. Bain, Christine M. Garcia, and Michael Pak. View the new issue.

Submit a proposal to host the IWAC 2027 Conference.

Literate ActivityPerspectives on Textual Practices in the World welcomes submissions for the inaugural issue to be published in Spring 2026.

he podcast Beyond Conventions: Global Dialogues on Writing Studies has released its fourth episode, a conversation with the editors of the forthcoming edited collection Beyond Conventions, Global Dialogues and Writing Studies, which will appear in the Latin America Section of the International Exchanges on the Study of Writing book series

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