Colleagues,
David Green, Lydia Wilkes, and I are excited to call for proposals for a special issue of WPA: Writing Program Administration. The full CFP is attached and linked, but a quick summary is included below. Please consider submitting a proposal by Monday, October 27, and share widely.
Thanks,
Gavin P. Johnson
CFP in brief:
How Do We Address the Behemoth?: Writing Program Administrators and GenAI
To date, a collection of WPA voices on the topic of GenAI has yet to emerge. This, to us, is quite odd considering the important role WPAs play in acknowledging GenAI concerns, shaping GenAI policies, researching GenAI trends, offering/organizing GenAI-themed trainings and talks, sitting in on demonstrations with GenAI companies and university stakeholders, and much more. Can any WPA working today honestly say that they haven’t had to address the behemoth that is GenAI and its influences in/on their programs?
For this special issue of WPA: Writing Program Administration––planned for publication in fall 2026––we invite proposals that explicitly focus on how WPAs and their teams have addressed GenAI in their local contexts. Specifically, we are interested in Everything Is Praxis essays, counterstories, literacy narratives, dialogues, and empirical research reports that provide insight into the work WPAs are doing to shape GenAI use, policy, and literacy in their programs and on their campuses. We want to know your approach, your method, your orientation. For this special issue, we are less concerned with big-picture stances or sweeping philosophies about GenAI and want to open space to share stories, resources, experiments, and ways forward.
In order to ensure the widest and largest number of perspectives can be published, we are intentionally limiting the length of all submissions regardless of genre to 3,000–4,000 words or fewer. We encourage submissions that offer insights from all types of writing programs and institutions, especially community colleges, regional universities, SLACS, HBCUs, HSIs, and/or research universities.
Please submit proposals of approximately 250 words by October 27, 2025.In your proposal, please be explicit about the genre you intend to compose (Everything Is Praxis, counterstory, literacy narrative, dialogue, research report, etc.). Full drafts of accepted proposals will be due February 2, 2026, and will receive double-anonymous peer review from experts in the field.
Submit your proposals to this Google Form.
We are happy to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and offer feedback! Contact Gavin Johnson (gavin.johnson), David Green (david.f.green), and Lydia Wilkes (lcw0045).
Gavin P. Johnson, PhD
Director of Composition
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Composition
Department of English • Reed Hall 325