Nominate: CWPA Best Book Award

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The Council of Writing Program Administrators seeks nominations for its Best
Book Award. This award recognizes books whose authors or editors have made an
outstanding contribution to the field of writing program administration (WPA)
work over the past calendar year (2025).

Award Requirements
The book:
  -- Has a copyright date of 2025.
  -- Addresses an issue that is related to the scholarship of WPA work
(broadly defined!; including but not limited to writing center administration,
writing across the curriculum administration, assessment, professional
development, curricular design, labor issues, etc.).
  -- Attends to diversity, equity, and inclusion as embedded within WPA work,
as represented in Renewing Our Vows: Reflecting on a Year of Cultural
Assessment Conventions.
  -- Does one or more of the following:
  -- Builds on or extends previous scholarship relevant to WPA work;
  -- Addresses a notable gap in the scholarship of WPA work;
  -- Re-conceives WPA work through divergent thinking and/or diverse
experiences.
  -- Makes a significant, meaningful, and/or innovative contribution to WPA
scholarship.
  -- Makes the contribution accessible to appropriate audiences.
  -- Is appropriate for the broad range of contexts in which WPA work takes
place.

Nominating Procedures:

Send a brief letter of nomination to the committee chairs, Beth Boswell
(brb...@uah.edu) and Dev Bose (bo...@ucsc.edu), by March 31, 2026. Arrange to
have a digital copy of the book sent to brb...@uah.edu or a print copy to the
following address:
   Beth Boswell
   Department of English
   The University of Alabama in Huntsville
   301 Sparkman Drive
   Morton Hall, 278
   Huntsville, AL, 35899

(Note: Due to the ease of circulating the book within the committee, digital
copies are strongly preferred. The committee promises not to circulate the
book beyond committee members if it is copyrighted and submitted digitally.)

In the letter, nominators should explain how the book meets the award
requirements stated above, particularly focusing on the WPA-related issue they
believe that the book addresses; how the book attends to diversity, equity,
and inclusion; the gap in the scholarship of WPA work that the book takes up;
and the significance of the book’s contribution to writing program
administrators broadly speaking. Nominations not accompanied by letters that
address these questions may be disqualified from consideration.

We are glad to accept nominations from authors, editors, or contributors
themselves as well as faculty, staff, graduate students, and publishers. We
especially welcome submissions that expand diverse points of view on WPA work
and that speak from diverse perspectives.

Winners will be notified, via email, by July 15, 2026.

Members of the CWPA 2026 Best Book Award Committee are:
  Amanda Presswood, Southern New Hampshire University
  Amar Sherma, University of Texas at Arlington
  Andy Jiahao Liu, University of Iowa
  Beth Boswell, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
  Brian Stone, Indiana State University
  Courtney Adams Wooten, George Mason University
  Dev Bose, University of California, Santa Cruz
  Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, Texas Woman’s University
  Kailyn Shartel Rogers, University of Tennessee - Martin
  Laura Feibush, Penn State Harrisburg
  Megan Busch, Charleston Southern University
  Nicholas Behm, Elmhurst University
  Sarah E. Polo, Cottey College
  Valerie Gramling, University of Miami

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