Announcements & Job Board 

On this page, you will find ongoing calls for papers, awards and scholarship opportunities, and job listings. 


NOTE: This page is updated often, but all listings may not be current. All info is current as of December 16, 2024.

Calls for Papers

• Due January 10, 2025. Chapter proposals for The Future of Writing Centers. 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. They 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.

• Due February 17, 2025. Conference on Community Writing 2025 (Detroit, Michigan | October 23-25, 2025) The Coalition for Community Writing (CCW) invites you to imagine community writing as designing justice across space, place, and time at our sixth biennial Conference on Community Writing. The conference, hosted at Wayne State University in the vibrant and ever-evolving city of Detroit, Michigan, welcomes community residents, organizers, nonprofit leaders, writers, artists, journalists, digital storytellers, teachers, students, scholars and more, who all theorize, enact, and write the stories of community change.

Grants and Awards

• IWCA Future Leader Award 2025 (Opening soon!) The IWCA Future Leaders Scholarship will be awarded to four future writing center leaders. Each year at least one undergraduate student and at least one graduate student will be recognized.

Job Postings

• Program Coordinator, Texas A&M Writing Center (College Station, Texas): The University Writing Center is looking for a Program Coordinator I to assist with our student programming, including running online graduate writing groups, presenting classroom workshops, serving as a coach for writing retreats, and assisting with training our 60+ undergraduate and graduate peer consultants.

• Assistant Director, Texas A&M Writing Center (College Station, Texas): The University Writing Center is looking for an Assistant Director to help us manage the day-to-day running of our busy center. Tasks will include overseeing our satellite location, helping to train our 60+ graduate and undergraduate peer consultants, assisting with the running of multiple programs including our online writing retreats and writing groups, and assisting with the center’s certification process and annual assessment.

• Professional Writing Consultant, Iowa Western Community College (Iowa Western Community College): The Professional Writing Consultant meets face-to-face or via Zoom with students in the Writing Center to provide non-prescriptive, process-based feedback on writing tasks and course assignments.

• Writing Center Coordinator, Alabama A&M University (Huntsville, AL): The coordinator of the Writing Center will coordinate the day-to-day operations of the Writing Center and assist the director with the planning and implementation of all matters related to the center, including organization and program planning and assisting undergraduate and graduate students with their academic writing.   This 12-month appointment is within the Department of English and Foreign Languages in the College of Education, Humanities, and Behavioral Sciences.

• Senior Administrative Assistant, Writing Lab, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN): This position helps writing consultants, permanent staff, and leadership, and it enables the Purdue OWL operations and PR to happen effectively, from on-site and website presence to research projects.

• Part-time Learning Commons Coordinator, Bristol Community College (Fall River, MA): The Learning Resources Coordinator, Writing Center is responsible for the college's Writing Center services, including the design, implementation, and assessment of programs and services to improve the retention and academic success of all students.

• Scholarly Writing Specialist, Penn State College of Medicine (University Park, PA): The Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing at Penn State University is seeking a dedicated and experienced Writing Support Specialist to provide tailored writing assistance to our PhD and DNP students, faculty, and international scholars. 

• Writing Center Director + tenure-track Professor, Wenzhou-Kean University (Wenzhou, China): The School of English Studies at WKU seeks a Writing Center Director who will also hold a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor role in English.