If you’re interested in the following events or publication opportunities, mark your calendars for the upcoming deadlines.

Upcoming Conference CFP Deadlines:

• Computers & Writing: Proposals Due Oct. 31, 2014, Conference May 28-31, 2015 (U of Wisconsin-Stout)
• Conference on Community Writing: Proposals Due Dec. 5, 2014, Conference Oct. 16-17, 2015 (Boulder, CO) This conference will also provide a publication opportunity; articles will be invited from conference presenters for two journal special issues, both intended for publication in fall 2016.
• Feminisms & Rhetorics: Proposals Due Feb. 1, 2015, Conference Oct. 28-31, 2015 (Phoenix, AZ)

Upcoming Publication CFP Deadline:

There are lots of publication opportunities out there, but I wanted to direct your attention to a new online, peer-reviewed journal, Ubiquity, housed at GSU that has upcoming submission deadlines. In particular, you might check out the range of formats/genres in which you can publish for this journal (e.g., reflexive journals/letters about your teaching, innovative lesson plans, opinion pieces, personal essays, community-based fact sheets, and many more). Given many students’ interests around multimedia writing, I’m hoping some of you will consider submitting for the upcoming special issue (deadline Dec. 1st for Spring 2015 publication); see CFP below.

Spring 2015 Issue Theme: Multimedia Writing in the Classroom and Beyond 

• Submission Deadline: December 1, 2014.

Today, students text, Tweet, Facebook, shoot video with their phones, record and mix audio, make electronic drawings, etc. These methods have become the primary modes of expression in terms of written communication, but there is no systematic curriculum to support them in the classroom. Multimedia composing is not the same, though, as traditional writing. That’s because a lot of rhetorical decisions have to be made prior to composing with so many choices of tools. This issue explores multimedia writing and instruction in the classroom and beyond through these and related questions:

• • What does multimedia writing look like?

  • Can you have “quality” in multimedia composition?

  • What are some of the ways to teach multimedia writing?

  • What are some of the complexities involved in the teaching of multimedia writing and how can they be addressed?