Dear colleagues,
I’m excited to share with you a CFP for Collaborative Storytelling as Writing Pedagogy & Practice, an upcoming edited collection focused on analog role playing games and writing.
Analog role-playing games (like tabletop RPGS and larp) are increasingly recognized as rich pedagogical tools. Their collaborative narratives, improvisational demands, structured constraints, character development practices, and world-building mechanics make them especially well suited to writing instruction. At the same time, solo journaling RPGs have emerged as powerful frameworks for reflective, sustained, and emotionally resonant writing practice. Together, these forms of play offer compelling possibilities for helping students develop voice, foster revision habits, deepen rhetorical awareness, and engage writing as a meaningful social and imaginative act. Analog role-playing games are spaces of imagination, collaboration, and building literacies. From collaborative storytelling at the table to the reflective structures of solo journaling RPGs, these forms of play invite students into writing as experimentation, revision, perspective-taking, and world-making.
This volume seeks contributions from scholars, teachers, designers, and practitioner-researchers working at the intersections of composition, literacy education, English studies, game-based learning, teacher education, and beyond.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit a chapter proposal including:
* A proposed chapter title
* An abstract of 300 to 500 words
* A brief author biography of 100 to 150 words
* Contact information
Completed chapters will be approximately 4,000 words in length.
Our proposal submission deadline is June 30, 2026.
I’ve attached a full copy of the CFP to this message with further details regarding timeline and background for this series of publications (Collaborative Storytelling as Writing Pedagogy & Practice will be the third volume in the series).
Please send all proposals and inquiries to: educationrpgpedagogy
All the best,
Bret Zawilski (he, they, any)
bret.zawilski
Assistant Professor Critical Skills
Maynooth University, Ireland
Collaborative Storytelling as Writing Pedagogy & Practice.pdf