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Call for Proposals | WLN – The Future of Writing Centers

cover of Graphis scripa / writing lichen header, showing a printing of lichen on a green-grey background.
~ CWCA/ACCR

WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship (WLN) is calling for contributions to an edited collection, The Future of Writing Centers, to be published on WAC Clearinghouse’s Digital Edited Collections (DEC).

DEC is an open-access publication forum focused on topics relevant to the field of writing center studies. These multimodal texts, which are rich with graphics, links to sources, videos, and teaching resources, extend learning beyond printed texts. In addition to its enhanced ability to engage and educate readers, this digital scholarship is accessible to international audiences and easily shareable through digital links.

Theme:

The theme of this WLN DEC volume, the future of writing centers, was the theme of the very successful 2024 European Writing Centers Association Conference. Though Franziska Liebetanz (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)), in a special English-language edition of Journal für Schreibwissenschaft, is leading on the topic as it pertains to writing centers in Europe, this call asks for chapter proposals that reflect on how those wider contextual exigencies and affordances of neoliberal policies in higher education have led writing center administrators and practitioners everywhere—North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia—to question or re-think their writing center’s identity, the identity of the field as a whole, and the direction their writing center is, or writing centers in general are, taking or should be taking. How has your writing center responded to these difficulties and possibilities? How have these neoliberal techniques changed who we are, how we see ourselves, what we do and how we do it? What is the way forward? We are particularly interested in chapter proposals that examine the author’s own writing center or writing centers more broadly through the lens of globalization, emerging technologies, or pedagogical innovations. Impact on centers resulting from other techniques of neoliberalism will be entertained, but our focus will be on these three areas of impact.

Nuts and bolts:

  • For this DEC, we seek 500-word proposals for book chapters with an explanation on how you plan to integrate multimodal elements into your manuscript. Multimodal elements should not simply be add-ons but essential complements to the author’s ideas and argument.
  • Chapters should be between 4,000-6,000 words.

Schedule:

  • Proposal due date: January 10, 2025
  • Invitation to submit chapters by March 3, 2025
  • Submit chapter drafts by: July 19, 2025

Please, see the full call here.

We look forward to reading your proposals.

Lawrence Cleary,
Director Regional Writing Centre
University of Limerick,

International-ish Writing Centers Association

~ CWCA/ACCR

Vol. 6, No. 1 Fall 2024

Brian Hotson, CWCR/RCCR Editor
Stevie Bell, CWCR/RCCR Associate Editor

Note: This post does not reflect the position of the CWCA/ACCR.

Last week, the IWCA announced their 2024 grants and awards winners. Once again—and year over year—the International Writing Centers Association awards go to those in the Global North, specifically Americans, save two: the non-US awardees are Editors, Karin Wetschanow, Erika Unterpertinger, Eva Kuntschner, Birgit Huemer, of the collection, Neue Perspektiven auf Schreibberatung, awarded Outstanding Book; and Gillian Saunders, University of Victoria, awarded a Dissertation Grant. Of all the IWCA Outstanding Book award winners since 1999, with the exception of this year, all awards have gone to American authors, written in American English, and published in the US (Heinemann/Boynton-Cook is a US subsidiary of Heinemann UK). Of those listed as recipients of the Dissertation Grant, this is only the second year that the grant has gone to a non-US graduate student. Only once has the grant gone to a graduate student from the Global South.

There are many examples of non-US writing centre practitioners and scholars deserving recognition. The new Centro de Escritura y Argumentación, part of the Red Mexicana de Centros de Escritura, continues the building of the writing centre community in Mexico. Examples of publications include the edited collection, Centros y Programas de Escritura en América Latina: Opciones Teóricas y Pedagógicas para la Enseñanza de la Escritura Disciplinar (2023), edited by Estela Inés Moyano and Margarita Vidal Liza;  Reimagining Writing Centres Practices: A South African Perspective (2023), edited by Avasha Rambiritch and Laura Drennan; Multilingual Contributions to Writing Research: Toward an Equal Academic Exchange (2023), edited by Natalia Ávila Reyes; Negotiating the Intersections of Writing and Writing Instruction (2023), edited by Magnus Gustafsson and Andreas Eriksson; and Inclusive Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning Practices in Higher Education in India (2024), edited by Kanika Singh of Ashoka University’s Centre for Writing and Communication. Recognizing work published or to be published is laudatory and important. Taking a global approach to this task should be the work of an international organization. Continue reading “International-ish Writing Centers Association” →