08/04/2026
Here are two publication opportunities for writing center leaders and graduate students.
Call for Proposals: Announcement 1: General Call
How do resources impact writing center work?
We are proposing a special issue of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship reflecting on that question.
We are not necessarily looking for stories about decreasing resources or recapturing finances, but rather how the flow of budget, technology, space, subscriptions, or access to decision-makers impacts writing center pedagogy. We’d like to hear from those of you with an interest – please send a 200-word proposal for a 2500-3000-word article. To bthomas@ francis. edu by September 15th, 2026. We will respond to you by September 30th, and hope for a draft of said article by October 30th.
Perhaps you have been considering the impact of the resource squeeze in higher education for some time as we have, and like us, you have been struggling to keep your center above water. This is an invitation to take a moment to reflect, philosophize, and join a community of thinkers trying to manage the present and imagine the future.
If you are short of time or interest, would you please forward this to a colleague, perhaps a new-ish center director, striving and struggling for and with the array of resources necessary for center and student success?
Thank you for considering contributing to this issue.
Brennan Thomas and Lynn Briggs
Call for Proposals: Announcement 2: For Graduate Students and Recent Graduates
WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship was a guiding light when we began our careers in writing centers. We are inviting new (or continuing) writing center scholars to establish their voices in a special issue that we are proposing.
Our intention is to gather scholars to reflect on the impact that resources – writ large – have had on writing center operations. Perhaps resources have been bountiful and that has enabled the center to expand community work. We’d love to see how that might have changed center work. Perhaps resources have been limited, and the center has had to share space with a new student-support partner. Maybe that has led to crosswalks no one had imagined.
Funding, staffing, space, technology, access to decision-makers, software, social-media expertise, each have reverberations beyond the obvious. If directors are worried about budgets, do they spend less time mentoring staff? If no one has time to see students and update social media does the center reputation falter in the eyes of students? Do decision-makers limit the resource of autonomy with regard to social justice in light of political changes? We hope for reflections on experiences such as these.
Details:
Reply to lbriggs@ ewu. edu (Lynn Briggs) or bthomas@ francis. edu (Brennan Thomas) ASAP if you are interested – that’s all – just a “count me in” email with the subject line “WLN” We’ll get back to you quickly.
Send a 200-word proposal to us as close to mid-September as you can – outline the type of resource upon which you are reflecting and how that is impacting the tenor of writing center work. We will get in touch with you within a week of receiving this.
Prepare 2,500 word draft by the end of October – this needn’t be polished and edited, but we would like to see where you are headed.
