[Commlist] CFP: Contemporary Women's Writing Association Annual Conference

CFP: Contemporary Women's Writing Association Annual Conference

Wednesday 18th June 2025 to Friday 20th June 2025
Falmouth University, UK

The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association’s 2025 conference will be 
an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of 
women’s writing. This conference is dedicated to the discussion of a 
broad range of women’s writing, including the popular and the literary; 
bestsellers and genres; poetry and prose; screen and script; writing for 
games and digital spaces; creative non-fiction; life-writing, biography, 
and memoir; and journalism and other forms of cultural production.
We will be thinking and talking about women’s voices and artistic 
practices; the changing landscape of and about women’s writing; forms 
and mediums; representing the past and writing the future; textual and 
sexual politics; resistance and re-imaginings; interventions and 
intersections; writing as activism; and all of this across a wide range 
of disciplines, time periods, and texts.
We will also be offering, and accepting proposals for, a variety of 
workshops for ECRs/PhDs, as well as on publishing, careers, and practice.
We hope you will join us for this exciting event, which will bring 
together scholars, researchers, students, and enthusiasts to share their 
research, insights, and perspectives in an open and inclusive 
atmosphere. We welcome submissions for individual twenty-minute papers 
as well as for full panels and workshops. Subjects can include (but are 
not bound by):
• The portrayal and evolution of women’s writing across different 
periods and genres
• Women’s writing on page, stage, and screen
• The poetics of women’s writing
• Creative practices and performance
• The future of women’s writing
• Writing place and space
• Bestsellers and the popular
• Women writing for the screen
• Cultural, historical, and social contexts
• Reframing history and envisioning futures
• Traditional and digital forms of women’s writing
• The Global and the local
• Autoethnography and authorship; memory and memorialisation
• The figure of the female author: celebrity, fans, and representations
• Race, class, gender, and resistance
• Activism and protest; freedoms and oppression
• Writing technologies
• Women’s writing and pleasure
• Intersectionality and dualities
• Women’s literary canon
• The speculative and the imaginary
• Women in and writing games
• Crime Fiction, the Gothic, and Horror
• Bonkbusters, Romance, and Erotica
• The pre- and post-#MeToo landscape
• Multicultural approaches and practices
• Women’s writing and form
• Women’s writing and the market
• The economics and politics of women’s writing

Submissions:
Proposals should include a title, an abstract of 250–300 words, a brief 
biographical note (up to 100 words), and contact details. Panel 
proposals are very welcome.
Please submit your proposals in a Word document to the team at 
(info.cwwaconference /at/ gmail.com) by 31st January 2025. We encourage 
submissions from scholars at all stages of their careers, including 
early career researchers, and postgraduate students. Interdisciplinary 
approaches and innovative methodologies are welcome.


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