The Coalition for Community Writing (CCW) invites proposals for their sixth biennial Conference on Community Writing, taking place October 23-25, 2025, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
Submit a 250-500 word proposal by Monday, February 17, 2025. The conference theme is "Designing Justice Across Space, Place, and Time."
The conference welcomes community residents, organizers, nonprofit leaders, writers, artists, journalists, digital storytellers, teachers, students, and scholars to share their work in various formats including:
- 90-minute interactive workshops
- 60-minute concurrent sessions
- Panel presentations
- Roundtable discussions
- Guided contemplative practice sessions
- Creative displays
- Undergraduate poster presentations
"The Coalition for Community Writing (CCW) invites you to imagine community writing as designing justice across space, place, and time at our sixth biennial Conference on Community Writing. The conference, hosted at Wayne State University in the vibrant and ever-evolving city of Detroit, Michigan, welcomes community residents, organizers, nonprofit leaders, writers, artists, journalists, digital storytellers, teachers, students, scholars and more, who all theorize, enact, and write the stories of community change. CCW focuses on community writing, capaciously defined, as a framework to explore how change happens. In the work of social change, community writing is necessary, contemplative, therapeutic, coalition-building, and action-based. In community writing, people use design in material and multimodal ways to shape curriculum, projects, policy, grant funding, archives, museums, public art and performance."
