#CWSC26 Call for Papers
#CWSC26 Call for Papers
In Our Feels: The Emotional Landscape of Creative Writing Studies
The Creative Writing Studies Organization is now accepting proposals for our in-person fall conference in collaboration with the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York, October 3-4, 2026.
This year, the CWSC asks presenters to gut check creative writing practices in publishing, classrooms, and the academy. Successful proposals will share, through embodied knowledge, what’s feeling good, what’s feeling bad, and why. We invite presenters to trouble and explore the emotional dimensions of creative writing studies—how feelings shape, guide, complicate, or resist thoughts and actions. Our chosen presentations and workshops will not only value emotional intelligence as scholarly intelligence, but also research the ways that emotions shape program structures, mentoring, accessibility, publishing, and the identities we inhabit as writers and teachers.
Together, we will interrogate how emotions circulate in classrooms, workshops, mentoring relationships, publishing ecosystems, and creative communities, as well as how emotional knowledge is produced, resisted, regulated, or valued in creative writing studies. The CWSC provides space for both critical analysis and reflective, experimental, and embodied modes of inquiry.