The University of Connecticut's First-Year Writing Program is holding our 21st Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing on Thursday, April 23 and Friday, April 24, 2026, on our campus in Storrs, CT.
Our theme for the upcoming conference is: “Wicked Reading for Wicked Problems."
The deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, January 30th, 2026. Please see our website for the full CFP and other details: s.uconn.edu/fywconference
Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Kendall Gerdes, Associate Professor at the University of Utah and a winner of the 2025 Conference on College Composition & Communication's (CCCC) Outstanding Book Award for their book Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism (2024).
For more information, contact: FYW at fywconference@uconn.edu