CCCC 2026 Call for Proposals–Creative Writing Standing Group Sponsored Panel
Deadline for Proposals: May 16th 11:59pm Central Time
Conference Date: March 4 – 7, 2026
What’s the sponsored panel about?
This year, the 10th anniversary of the Creative Writing Standing Group, we’re planning a sponsored panel that celebrates the dynamic life of creative writing within our field. As we consider this year’s theme of conference as conversation and community, we know that creative writing has been and continues to show up in our practices as writers, researchers, teachers, scholars, administrators, and community members. In this panel, we wish to speak to this year’s questions of why we come together by creating a space to read and discuss our creative writing.
What are some questions that shape our panel?
In this way, we ask: What creative writing are you currently doing? What kinds of conversations do you wish to spark through your creative writing? What does it mean to write creatively as community members, activists, scholars, teachers, and administrators today? What is the role of creative writing and our stories especially in the current global, political, social, and economic contexts we live in today?
What will be our panel’s approach?
This is a sponsored panel on creative writing that gives you a reason to write and to share it! To envision our panel discussion, we draw from writer and teacher Felicia Rose Chavez (2021) who envisions creative writing conversations as an engaged and supportive arts community. While our sponsored panel will not be a workshop, it does draw on the spirit of Chavez’s work which prompts us to create a space for you not only to share your work, but to direct our conversations & celebrations about creative writing. The panel provides time to read and discuss our creative writing.
We also invite you to reference works that are motivating to you as a writer or that you have found influential to your writing, including those in multiple languages or genres. This kind of referencing aims to contribute to the forthcoming CWSG’s Bibliography of Writing and Reading Project.
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 (caleb.gonzalez) and Erika Luckert (erika.luckert) by May 16:
- A brief bio
- A description (100-200 words) of the creative work that you hope to share with attendees, any important influences, and why this work would be of interest to other writers and scholars at the conference.
- To help us describe the diversity of our panel in our proposal, please also identify:
- your position type (e.g. undergraduate and/or graduate student; staff, tenured, tenure-line, adjunct faculty),
- your institution type (e.g. two-year college, R1, SLAC, HSI, HBCU)
- your nationality and other relevant identities (e.g. Black, Chicanx, Indigenous, Asian, 2SLGBTQIA+, multilingual, transnational).