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CWSC26: In Our Feels: The Emotional Landscape of Creative Writing Studies

Start
2 Oct 2026
4:00 PM
End
4 Oct 2026
4:00 PM
Location
Hyatt Regency, Rochester, NY

Registration

Adjunct or Independent Scholar – $225.00
Select this option if you serve as an adjunct instructor or are unaffiliated with a university.
Current Board Member – $175.00
Select this option if you are a CWSO current board member.
Institutional – $100.00
Select this option if you are registering attendees under unlimited institutional membership. (You may register without payment, and we will invoice your bundle coordinator. If fewer than 4 members register, you will receive an invoice for your registration.)
Scholarship
Select this option if you have been contacted by the CWSO as one of the scholarship recipients for our 2026 conference.
Student – $175.00
Select this option if you are currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate student program.
Tenured or TT Faculty – $250.00
Select this option if you are tenured or tenure-track faculty.

The Creative Writing Studies Organization is holding our fall conference on October 2-4, 2026 in collaboration with the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York. Link to CFP.

Registration includes: 2 days of concurrent sessions including Keynote, workshops, papers, panels, and roundtables. Also included are Plated lunch on Saturday, all day beverages on Saturday with snacks for morning breaks, and coffee service on Sunday morning. Attendees have the option to receive a continuing education certificate.

This year, the CWSC asks presenters to gut check creative writing practices in publishing, classrooms, and the academy. We seek proposals that 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.

Link to CFP.