CFP: Creative Writing Standing Group Sponsored Panel @ 4C27
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The Creative Writing Standing Group (CWSG), a member group of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, is excited to invite submissions for our sponsored panel at CCCC in Milwaukee! Full details are below.
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We look forward to hearing from you!
Erika Luckert and Caleb González
CWSG Co-chairs
Deadline for Proposals: May 1st 11:59pm Central Time
Conference Date: April 14–17, 2027, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
What’s the sponsored panel about?
This year, we’re planning a sponsored panel that celebrates the dynamic life and collective futures of creative writing within our field. As we consider this year’s theme of Designing Writing Futures, we know that creative writing has been and continues to show up in our practices as writers, researchers, teachers, scholars, administrators, and community members. At a time when futures of writing will project out in various ways, this panel will speak to the meaning of enacting individual and collective futures of creativity within our writing.
What will be our panel’s approach?
This event is less of a panel, and more of a creative reading! Presenters will share brief excerpts of their creative work in any genre, along with an artist statement that contextualizes the work they shared. In this format, we take inspiration from writer and teacher Felicia Rose Chavez (2021) who envisions an engaged and supportive arts community where writers share not only their writing, but also its connections to their lives.
How to submit:
We encourage submissions from all writers including those who may not have had as much time for their creative writing given the many tasks we do. This panel is an opportunity to write creatively and share your work at CCCC. In other words, submissions do not have to describe a complete or finished work to participate. Submissions can be related to works in progress.
If you’re interested in being part of this year’s CWSG sponsored panel, please send the following to Caleb Gonzalez (cgonz...@scu.edu) and Erika Luckert (erika....@usm.edu) by May 1:
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A brief bio
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A description (no more than 100 words) of the creative work that you hope to share with attendees, and why this work would be of interest to other writers and scholars at the conference.
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To help us describe the diversity of our panel in our proposal, please also identify:
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your position type (e.g. undergraduate and/or graduate student; staff, tenured, tenure-line, adjunct faculty),
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your institution type (e.g. two-year college, R1, SLAC, HSI, HBCU)
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other relevant identities (e.g. Black, Chicanx, Indigenous, Asian, 2SLGBTQIA+, multilingual, transnational).
Erika Luckert, PhD (she/her)
Director of Composition & Assistant Professor of English
School of Humanities, University of Southern Mississippi