Conference on Community Writing - Coalition for Community Writing

Conference on Community Writing™

Detroit, MI

October 23-25, 2025

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Local Sponsoring Institutions

University of Texas at Austin

The Prison Creative Arts Project

DeepThink Tanks are participatory, action-oriented working sessions focused on critical social and environmental issues and facilitated by scholars and community leaders. Attendees actively engage with how to address these issues in our teaching, research, community activism, and organizing.

Why attend this conference?

LEARN

about writing as a tool for social change.

CREATE

projects, pedagogies, research, and partnerships.

CONNECT

with colleagues in your own and related fields and from community contexts — writers, activists, teachers, organizers, and community members. All are welcome!

EXPLORE

how to help catalyze and facilitate social change through various types of research, teaching, and writing about, with, for, and by local and global communities.

More than 1,500 scholars, activists, teachers, and community members have attended our conference.

Our attendees have drawn from 49 states, D.C., and countries around the world.

More than 750 colleges, universities, and community organizations have been represented at the conference.

Mural Art Activation with Michelle Ortiz and Writers-in-Residence, Philadelphia Conference on Community Writing™️

The Prison Story Project Performance, Boulder Conference on Community Writing™️

Attendee Testimonials

I am a scientist/policy maker with NOAA and affiliate faculty at the University of Alaska Fairbanks International Arctic Research Center. I was invited by a colleague, whose field this is. It was without a doubt one of the best conferences I have been to.

How wonderful it was to see colleagues committing themselves to vulnerability, meaningful community work, and the risk it takes to make art out of pain. I was truly privileged and moved to be part of the event. So much wonderful work. Such decent and committed scholars. Many tears of memory and joy.

It was such a great experience. The work on anti racism and decolonial applications to rhetoric was notable and very much like a breathe of fresh air. Thank you for the warmest of welcomes!

Best. Conference. Ever. Thank you!

To join our community, you can register for our Community Writing listserv, a valuable resource and networking space for scholars, students, teachers, and community members.

Members of the list are welcome to post questions, ideas, and announcements about pedagogy, research, publications, projects, and events regarding community writing and related fields.”