CFP: Special issue of Reflections: A Journal of Community Engaged Writing and Rhetoric

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Available online at https://docs.google.com/document/d/19lVokfAH3H8Z3VdcqzNgF9tDuuxqyX1LLoczWT75b9A/edit?usp=sharing

Call for ATTW Conference Session Papers and Reflections 

The Association for Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW), in collaboration with Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, is seeking submissions for a special issue to be published following the 2021 ATTW Virtual Conference. 

Following the theme of “Language, Access, and Power in Technical Communication,” while also considering the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing racial injustices and anti-Black, anti-Asian, anti-Indigenous, xenophobic violence perpetuated across the globe, the 2021 ATTW Virtual Conference intends to foster a space for community building and collective conversation that extends beyond a single online event. 

We solicit manuscripts and reflections that expand the work of the conference and help our community continue putting our conversations into action. As ATTW continues expanding and sustaining its commitments to anti-racism, we invite scholars who participated in and/or attended the 2021 ATTW Virtual Conference to reflect and build on the work that took place at the conference with an emphasis on continuing dialogue, reflection, and community-driven learning.

We solicit two types of contributions:

1. Reflections on the conference and conference sessions. These will be 2500-5000 word reflections on the conference, with specific attention to how specific conference sessions fostered conversations about the theme “language, access, and power in technical communication.” Participants and attendees are encouraged to consider and reflect on the full experience of the conference, bringing in examples from multiple sessions that highlight ATTW and its members efforts to build anti-racist praxis in technical communication.These reflections will be 2,500-5,000 words in length. 

2. Manuscripts from your session. These will be 5,000-7,500 word articles sharing research from your ATTW presentation. These pieces can be individual or collaborative and can stem from individual presentations, panels, or cross-panel conversations. 

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed following an anti-racist review practice that privileges open dialogue and collaboration among the editorial team, authors, and reviewers. Graduate students, early career scholars, and scholars from marginalized positionalities will be privileged for publication consideration.

In order to help us plan for the conference and to start dialogue about potential contributions, please let the special issue editors know if you are planning to submit to the special issue by June 30th, 2021. Fill out this Google form to express your interest. 

Please format all submissions according to Reflections submission guidelines. Submit all  manuscripts to the special issue editors, Khirsten L. Scott, Ann Shivers-McNair, and Laura Gonzales at att...@gmail.com by January 14th, 2022.