CFPs

Looking for the latest CFPs? Here are a few with approaching deadlines.

With closest deadlines first

• Computers and Writing, Pullman (?), WA, June 5-8, 2014 (Deadline is October 31, 2013)
• Special issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication: Content Management (Deadline is October 31, 2013)
• Special issue of Literacy in Composition Studies: The New Activistm: Composition, Literacy Studies, and Politics. Contact Ben Kuebrich at Syracuse University (Deadline is October 31)
• Edited Collection: Global Women Leaders: Their World, Their Language (Deadline is November 4, 2013)
• International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 12–14, 2014 (Deadline is November 4, 2013)
• Special issue of Composition Forum: The Past & Possible Futures of Rhetorical Genre Studies (Deadline is November 15, 2013)
• 2014 Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, February 20-22, 2014. (Deadline is November 20, 2013)
• Special issue of The Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization: Defining and operationalizing culture for intercultural and global
  research, theory, and practice (Deadline is December 1, 2013)
• CCCC’s Feminisms Workshop, Indianapolis, IN, March 19, 2014. See WPA-L on October 8, 2013. (Deadline is December 1, 2013)
• Special issue of Pedagogy on Reading. Contact Dr. Patricia Donahue at Lafayette College. (Deadline is December 30, 2013)
• Edited collection: Microhistories of Composition: A Collection of Original Essays (Deadline is December 31, 2013)
• Special issue of Connections: Education and Training for Globally Distributed Virtual Team. Contact Dr. Pam Brewer. (Deadline is January 15, 2014)
• Special issue of Harlot: Digital Activism (Deadline is January 15, 2014)

With varying dates

• Special issues of Technical Communication Quarterly (no CFPs here; use the TCQ special issues listings to plan ahead)
• Writing Commons (Dr. Joe Moxley refers to the CFP in the Writing Commons newsletter)

Past Conference CFPs (selected, listed by historical deadlines)

April

• CCCC 2014, Indianapolis, IN, March 19-22, 2014 (Deadline was April 13, 2013)
• Graduate Research Network at Computers and Writing, Raleigh, NC, May 17, 2012 (Deadline was Apr 25, 2012, 100-200 words)

May

• CCCC 2013 (PDF), Las Vegas, NV, March 13-16, 2013 (Deadline was May 7, 2012)
• CCCC 2012, St. Louis, MO, March 21-24, 2012 (Deadline was May 6, 2011)

August

• Symposium on Usability, Information Design, and Information Interaction to Communicate Complex Information, Greenville, NC, Feb 24-25, 2012 (Deadline was Aug 1, 2011, extended to Aug 15, 2 pg position paper)

September

• Association for Business Communication Southwestern United States, New Orleans, LA, Feb 29-Mar 3, 2012 (Deadline was Sept 15, 2011, 750-1500 words)

October

• ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing) Conference 2014, Indianapolis, IN, March 19, 2014 (Deadline was October 15, extended to October 25, 2013)
• ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing) Conference 2013, Las Vegas, NV, March 13, 2013 (Deadline was October 1, 2012, extended to mid-October, 2012)
• 2011 Annual Conference of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC), Harrisonburg, VA, October 8, 2011 (Deadline was July 8, 2011, 240-400 words)
• Genre 2012–Rethinking Genre Twenty Years Later: An International Conference on Genre Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, CA, June 26-29, 2012 (Deadline was Oct 15, 300 words + references)
• Computers and Writing, Raleigh, NC, May 17-20, 2012 (Deadline was October 22, 2011, 250 words for individual proposals)

November

• ATTW 2012, St. Louis, MO, March 21, 2012 (Deadine was Nov 1, 2011, extended to Nov 11)
• 11th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (2012), Savannah, GA, June 7-9, 2012 (Deadline was Nov 1, 2011, 1-2 sentences plus 250 words)
• Computers and Writing 2011 (Deadline was Nov 15, 2010)

Other Past CFPs

• Professional Communication in the Health Fields: Localizing for Diversity, a special issue of Rhetoric, Professional Communication and Globalization (Deadline was Oct 10, 2011?, 500 words)
• Visible Numbers: Essays on the History of Statistical Graphics (Deadline was Aug 1, 2011, 500 words)
• TCQ Special Issue: Social Media and the Role of the Technical Communicator (Deadline was Nov 11, 2011, 500-750 words)