Dear colleagues
Your WLN Coeditors will be tabling this week at the IWCA Collaborative and CCCC. If you’re in Baltimore, stop by to say hello!
You’re invited to read the open-access Spring 2025 issue of WLN at https://wac.colostate.edu/wln/.
In this issue, you will find:
• Julia Bleakney’s Editor’s Note which offers an overview of the Spring 2025 issue of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship (direct link to this issue: https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/wln/v49n3/v49n3.pdf)
• The Blog Editors’ invitation to dip into the global world of writing centers (direct link to the blog: https://wlnconnect.org/)
*Michelle Cohen and Sara Wilder’s “Taking Play Seriously: Using the Multimodal Gutter for Writing Center Reflection,” on the value of creative play and exploration for generating new perspectives, relaxing, and building relationships.
*Weijia Li’s “Accountability in the Writing Center: Graduate Writing Consultants’ Perspectives,” on accountability-related writing practice of graduate writing consultants and writing consultations as a potential site for accountability.
Emma Catherine Perry’s “‘Don’t Forget to Tell Me That I’m Really Brilliant!’: Working with Creative Writing and Writers“ on the ways tutors can support creative writers and beyond.
Mohi Uddin’s Tutors’ Column, “Writing Center Administration: Demystifying Success,” on a writing center “pedagogy of empathy” that reinforces empathetic listening and collaboration with diverse writers.
You’ll also find announcements of writing center conferences as well as the usual Conference Calendar of writing center conferences around the world.
Our WLN Resources section, https://wac.colostate.edu/wln/resources/, includes WLN’s recent Digital Edited Collection (DEC) on The Post-Pandemic Writing Center, plus previous DECs on tutor education, transfer, and wellness. All are open access.
We appreciate your interest! Feel free to get in touch with the editorial team if you have any questions or ideas!
Julia Bleakney, Co-editor, WLN, on behalf of the WLN Editorial Team
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