Positionality Stories, a blog about the role of positionality in work, education, and research, invites blog post proposals for Q2, Q3, and Q4 of 2025. This blog is an extension of a forthcoming edited collection being prepared for publication as part of the Practices & Possibilities Book Series at WAC Clearinghouse: https://wac.colostate.edu/.
Like the edited collection — Storied Practices: Positionality in Writing Studies — the blog is designed to disrupt outdated notions of disembodied objectivity in Writing Studies research and teaching. Rooted in reflective storywork, the blog and collection promise to be a valuable resource for students and professors in a variety of writing disciplines, and pushes critical conversations about our knowledge-making practices in a public-facing space.
In 2024, authors were invited to participate on a quarterly basis based on their responses to our edited collection CFP. These posts bravely address the real complexities of positionality as a theory, describe their own experiences with researcher positionality, share praxes for teaching positionality, and problematize the representation of research that leaves the researcher’s position out.
In 2025, we’d like to continue to grow the blog collection in three phases:
Quarter 2 (Q2): May-June | Positionality in Education
We’re seeking 2 more individual or group blogs about positionality in educational settings to round out the end of Q2. These don’t have to be formal classrooms, just spaces where acts of teaching take place.
Quarter 3 (Q3): June-August | Positionality at Work
We’re seeking 4 individual or group blogs about positionality in professional workplaces, including but not exclusive to academic institutions.
Quarter 4 (Q4): September-December | Positionality in Research
We’re seeking 4 individual or group blogs about positionality in research. This can be community or classroom-based research; it doesn’t have to be formal study to qualify.
Our blog posts are typically around 1500-2200 words (although we will consider publishing shorter pieces) and are more informal than typical academic publications. We discourage overly academic language and parenthetical citations, but you can certainly weave references to other scholarship into your writing. Our primary audience is students (undergraduate and graduate) and teachers in writing studies or adjacent fields. Our secondary audience is writers and folks interested in writing who are concerned with questions of identity, perspective, ethics, and methodology.
To submit an idea you would like to write about for the blog, please do the following by June 1 for Q2:Education, June 1 for Q3:Work, and September 1 for Q4:Research:
- Read a few published posts on the positionality.stories with any questions. We look forward to reading your ideas. Submission form can be found here: https://forms.gle/Egf1fyKUnK1Wfz6BA.
Editorial team: Kristine Acosta, Michelle Cowan, Becky Rickly, Nancy Small, and Erica Stone