Current Call for Papers

Our 2027 issue will feature articles that explore the theme of the 2026 ECWCA conference, “Organic Writing Centers.” This issue encourages writers to think critically about what it means to grow within a writing center, writing program, or other writing-related initiative and what have been the actors and influences that have shaped your own writing center, or your experience within your writing center. 

Writers are encouraged to consider relationships among people, places, interactions, philosophies, and challenges that have shaped your center and your experience of writing centers. We want to know the ways you and your center have grown, the nature of that growth, and whether growth is always the goal.

Some questions to consider as you prepare your manuscripts include:

• How do actors within your ecosystem blend to create your writing center or shape you?

• What expected or unexpected relationships have allowed you and your writing center to bloom and develop? What factors have caused your center to recede or overlook something important?

• What parts of writing center narratives, lore, scholarship, and community help you and your center “bloom”? Which of these are points of disagreement?

• What changes within the ecosystem of your center have challenged or created new opportunities for your center?

While anyone is welcome to submit, we strongly encourage submissions from those who attended or presented at the 2025 ECWCA Conference. If you gave a presentation or sat on a panel—or even if you are just inspired by a session you attended at the conference—you are strongly encouraged to write up your work and send it in for editorial and peer review.

For the 2027 issue, we seek Feature Articles, Consultant Insights, Conversation Shapers, and Partner Perspectives. See more guidance for writers here.

We are also always seeking reviewers. See information here.

Send questions, inquiries, and submissions to ecwcajournal@gmail.com.