Online Writing Centers Association

Webinar: AI and Academia
2025-05-15 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Webinars provide a space to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs).
Event Details

Presenters: Dr. Wendy Stewart
Title: “AI and Academia”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

Dr. Wendy Stewart of Miles College, who is well versed on the impact of AI in academia as well as strategies that we as professionals can use to incorporate AI into our work. You can find out more about her work at her LinkedIn page.

ASL Interpretation and Recording
We work with Morr Interpreting to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in each webinar. Webinars are recorded, given edited closed captions, and shared in our Event Archive up to 2 weeks after the event date.
Guidelines for Participating
Webinars are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure our interpreters are visible and can translate without auditory or visual distractions, we ask that participants keep their audio and video turned off during the event. Participants are welcome to ask questions and contribute in the chat.
Recording
This event will be recorded, and the recording will be available to the public.
Register
You can register for a webinar through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Vote for Executive Board
2025-02-24 - 2025-03-03
Submit your vote for the February 2025 Executive Board. Each member may vote one time. Voting will close on Sunday, March 3, at 11:59pm. Results will be announced by March 10.
Learn more and submit your vote for Executive Board members.

February Board Elections Applications Due
2025-02-21
2025 February Election
Applications will be accepted for the following executive board positions:

Accessibility Co-Chair
Assistant Secretary
Assistant Treasurer
Diversity and Social Justice Co-Chair
Grant Coordinator
Secretary
Virtual Events Co-Chair
Website Coordinator

Please see the position description for application questions. The application deadline has been extended to the end of the day on February 21.

Example Applications

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2025 OWCA Conference Proposals Due
2024-10-31 23:59
Proposals for the 2025 Conference have been extended and are now due on October 31.
Read the CFP and submit your proposal.

Webinar: “Asynchronous Feedback: Access and Possibility”
2024-10-09 13:00 - 14:00
Webinars provide a space to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs).
Event Details

Presenters: Miriam Akervall and Emma Catherine Perry
Title: “Asynchronous Feedback: Access and Possibility”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

This webinar explores asynchronous feedback as a mode for reaching writers who might otherwise be excluded from a writing center community. Drawing on experiences developing an online writing center that serves incarcerated writers through asynchronous feedback, two writing center leaders will consider how asynchronous capabilities create affordances for writing support to bridge access and ability. The webinar will include a group discussion about techniques for building inclusive writing communities across distance and logistical barriers, and the liberatory possibilities of asynchronous writing support for historically or institutionally underserved writers.

ASL Interpretation and Recording
We work with Morr Interpreting to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in each webinar. Webinars are recorded, given edited closed captions, and shared in our Event Archive up to 2 weeks after the event date.
Guidelines for Participating
Webinars are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure our interpreters are visible and can translate without auditory or visual distractions, we ask that participants keep their audio and video turned off during the event. Participants are welcome to ask questions and contribute in the chat.
Recording
This event will be recorded, and the recording will be available to the public.
Register
You can register for a webinar through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Reading Club: "Promoting Writing Center Awareness to Diverse Populations with OWCA Events & Group Mentoring"
2024-09-26 13:00 - 14:00
Reading club provides a space to discuss writing center scholarship. Based on the article or chapter chosen, participants will share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs). This month, the OWCA Reading Club will read and discuss two recent articles on the experiences of diverse students and tutors in writing centers. Attendees will discuss both articles as well as how to promote awareness of writing center services, in particular to non-native English speakers and first-generation students.
Guidelines for Participating
Reading Club is currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure a safe space for open communication and interaction, these sessions will not be recorded.
Register
You can register for a reading club through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the morning of the event.

Championing DEI in the Job Market: Strategies for Academic Success (ft. Gloria Poveda) with OWCA Events & Group Mentoring
2024-08-29 14:00 - 15:00
Webinars provide a space to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs).
Event Details

Presenters: Gloria Poveda
Title: “Championing DEI in the Job Market: Strategies for Academic Success (ft. Gloria Poveda) with OWCA Events & Group Mentoring”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

This webinar will explore the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the academic job market. Whether tutoring writers in these genres or conducting their own job searches, participants will gain valuable insights into advocating for DEI in their professional journeys. Attendees will explore how DEI principles influence job search strategies, application processes, and workplace culture. The session will provide an overview of identifying and applying for positions prioritizing DEI, interpret job descriptions with a DEI lens, and craft application materials highlighting the commitment to these values.

ASL Interpretation and Recording
We work with Morr Interpreting to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in each webinar. Webinars are recorded, given edited closed captions, and shared in our Event Archive up to 2 weeks after the event date.
Guidelines for Participating
Webinars are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure our interpreters are visible and can translate without auditory or visual distractions, we ask that participants keep their audio and video turned off during the event. Participants are welcome to ask questions and contribute in the chat.
Recording
This event will be recorded, and the recording will be available to the public.
Register
You can register for a webinar through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Webinar: "From Transactional to Transformative: Supporting Students Writing Self-Promotional Genres"
2024-05-30 16:00 - 17:00
Webinars provide a space to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs).
Event Details

Presenters: Erin Todey
Title: “From Transactional to Transformative: Supporting Students Writing Self-Promotional Genres”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

This webinar will discuss how to support students—especially those who identify as first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented—in writing self-promotional genres throughout the duration of their studies. Presenter Erin Todey, Assistant Director of the McNair Scholars Program at Iowa State University, will discuss multiple self-promotional genres with an emphasis on the statement of purpose for graduate school applications.

ASL Interpretation and Recording
We work with Morr Interpreting to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in each webinar. Webinars are recorded, given edited closed captions, and shared in our Event Archive up to 2 weeks after the event date.
Guidelines for Participating
Webinars are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure our interpreters are visible and can translate without auditory or visual distractions, we ask that participants keep their audio and video turned off during the event. Participants are welcome to ask questions and contribute in the chat.
Recording
This event will be recorded, and the recording will be available to the public.
Register
You can register for a webinar through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Reading Club: Asynchronous and Rhetorical: Appointment Forms and Their Effect on Writer-Consultant Exchanges
2024-04-25 14:00 - 15:00
Reading club provides a space to discuss writing center scholarship. Based on the article or chapter chosen, participants will share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs). April’s reading club discussion will focus on “Asynchronous and Rhetorical: Appointment Forms and Their Effect on Writer-Consultant Exchanges” by Lizzie Hutton, Kate Francies, Danielle Hart, Anita Long, and Brenda Tyrrell published in The Writing Center Journal. A copy of the article will be available for registered participants.
Reading Abstract
“Drawing on asynchronous consultation data, this comparative study examines the specific effect of the writer appointment form on the nature of both writers’ requests for feedback (RFFs) and consultants’ resulting comments. Our findings suggest that differently designed appointments forms can scaffold significantly different kinds of asynchronous writer-consultant exchanges, especially visible in the different emphases writers and consultants put on issues of correctness, clarity, organization, and the writer’s rhetorical situation.”
Guidelines for Participating
Reading Club is currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure a safe space for open communication and interaction, these sessions will not be recorded.
Register
You can register for a reading club through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the morning of the event.

2024 OWCA Conference
2024-04-11 - 2024-04-12
The OWCA’s 3nd virtual conference will take place asynchronously and synchronously. This year’s theme is The Vital Writing Center: Evolution and Endurance.
Questions? Email owca-conference@onlinewritingcenters.org
Conference Schedule
Preview the extensive list of both asynchronous and synchronous presentations.
Asynchronous presentations will be uploaded shortly before the conference and will be viewable throughout the conference. Synchronous sessions will be held via Zoom.
How to Attend
While there is no unique conference registration fee, an OWCA membership is required by all who wish to present and/or attend. One-year OWCA memberships are $5-15 for students and $40 for professionals. Not a member? Join the OWCA!

Registration is required. Please complete our OWCA 2024 Conference Registration Form by April 1.

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2024 Conference Information

Accessibility Guides

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Conference Schedule

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Reading Club: Where We Are: AI and Writing
2024-02-29 16:00 - 17:00
Reading club provides a space to discuss writing center scholarship. Based on the articles or chapters chosen, participants will share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs).
Reading Abstract
February’s reading club discussion will be a little different. This month, we’re asking participants to “read around” some recent publications concerning generative AI and writing. Choose one or more articles from the “Where We Are: AI and Writing” section of Composition Studies 51.1 and/or from the upcoming Computers and Composition 71 and come ready to discuss what you’ve read. Through this “read around,” participants become familiar with their chosen text(s) through thorough reading or skimming. We’re hoping this approach will help facilitate a discussion around multiple dimensions of this burgeoning issue.
Guidelines for Participating
Reading Club is currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure a safe space for open communication and interaction, these sessions will not be recorded.
Register
You can register for a reading club through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the morning of the event.

Executive Board Applications Due
2023-11-15
The OWCA is currently accepting applications for the following positions:

Assistant Treasurer
Assistant Secretary
Diversity & Social Justice Co-Chair
Accessibility Co-Chair
Virtual Events Co-Chair
Student Representative (2 positions available)
Grant Coordinator

Anyone is welcome to apply. Applications are due November 15 (by end of the day).

Example Applications

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Info Session: Professional Development Opportunities with OWCA & Election Application Workshop
2023-11-03 14:00 - 15:00
At this informational session, you will learn about opportunities for professional development and discipline-level service with the Online Writing Centers Association. We’ll talk about OWCA’s mission, our upcoming election, volunteer opportunities with our various committees, and the skills you can develop by volunteering with the organization. You will also have a chance to ask questions and receive feedback on your own potential application.

This is an open event and you do not need to be an OWCA member to participate. OWCA events are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. The session will be recorded and later posted with a transcript and captions on the OWCA website.

Register at our scheduling link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at events@onlinewritingcenters.org

"Writing Center Services Beyond the Tutorial" by Khadeidra Billingsley and Sarah Huffman
2023-10-19 15:00 - 16:00
Webinars provide a space to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs). This webinar is a premium event. It will be free to OWCA members; members of the public interested in attending will be able to purchase a ticket.
Event Details

Presenters: Dr. Khadeidra Billingsley and Dr. Sarah Huffman
Title: “Writing Center Services Beyond the Tutorial”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

While writing centers are often considered synonymous with one-on-one tutoring, many centers offer additional services to support writers, including mechanisms to spur students’ motivation to write. In this webinar, Dr. Billingsley and Dr. Huffman will discuss innovative support structures for student writers that they have integrated into their respective writing centers. Attendees will reflect on what services they might implement in their own centers to support particular writer populations.

ASL Interpretation and Recording
We work with Morr Interpreting to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in each webinar.
Guidelines for Participating
Webinars are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. To ensure our interpreters are visible and can translate without auditory or visual distractions, we ask that participants keep their audio and video turned off during the event. Participants are welcome to ask questions and contribute in the chat.
Recording
This event will be recorded.
Register
You can register for a webinar through our direct scheduling link. After opening the scheduling site, follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Info Session: "So You Want to Present at a Conference?"
2023-09-22 14:00 - 15:00
Do you have ideas that can start a conversation? Have you done research that you want to share? Is there a workshop you feel is invaluable for others to participate in? The Online Writing Centers Association invites you to sign up for this informational session “So You Want to Present at a Conference?” at 2pm EST on Friday, September 22nd, 2023.
Co-hosted by OWCA’s Conference Committee and Virtual Events Committee, this event is for all those in the writing center world who are interested in presenting at a conference but who are not sure how to craft that perfect proposal. Using the CFP for the OWCA’s 2024 Virtual Conference, the event will review what a CFP asks and what a strong proposal contains. There will be time for a Q&A as well as individual feedback on your proposal draft.

Who Can Attend
Informational sessions are open to everyone. Please come learn more about the OWCA Conference!
Register
You can register for a webinar through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Webinar: "Genres of the Job Market" presented by Andrea Hernandez Holm and Jill Dahlman
2023-08-16 15:00 - 16:00
Webinars provide a space to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs).
Event Details

Presenters: Andrea Hernandez Holm and Jill Dahlman
Title: “Genres of the Job Market“
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

This webinar will provide an overview of the academic job search process from researching positions to interpreting job descriptions to preparing the various documents required for applications. Attendees will learn more about what these genres entail in order to both tutor writers in these genres and to conduct their own potential job searches.

ASL Interpretation and Recording
We work with Morr Interpreting to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in each webinar. Webinars are recorded, given edited closed captions, and shared in our Event Archive up to 2 weeks after the event date.
Guidelines for Participating
Webinars are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure our interpreters are visible and can translate without auditory or visual distractions, we ask that participants keep their audio and video turned off during the event. Participants are welcome to ask questions and contribute in the chat.
Recording
This event will be recorded, and the recording will be available to the public.
Register
You can register for a webinar through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Reading Club: Dismantling Neutrality: Cultivating Antiracist Writing Center Ecologies
2023-07-19 15:00 - 16:00
July 19th, 2023 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT

Readingclubprovides a space to discuss writing center scholarship. Based on the article or chapter chosen, participants will share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs). July’s reading club discussion will focus on “Dismantling Neutrality: Cultivating Antiracist Writing Center Ecologies” by Eric C. Camarillo published in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. A copy of the article will be available for registered participants.
Reading Abstract
“In this article, I explore the potential complications of running writing centers at minority serving institutions (MSI), with special attention to Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) and how thinking of writing centers as ecologies can provide keener insight into the real work of writing centers.”

Guidelines for Participating
Reading Club is currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure a safe space for open communication and interaction, these sessions will not be recorded.
Register
You can register for a reading club through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the morning of the event.

Reading Club: Tell Me What You Really Think: Lessons from Negative Student Feedback
2023-06-23 14:00 - 15:00
Reading club provides a space to discuss writing center scholarship. Based on the article or chapter chosen, participants will share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs). June’s reading club discussion will focus on “Tell Me What You Really Think: Lessons from Negative Student Feedback” by Mary Hedengren & Martin Lockerd published in The Writing Center Journal. A copy of the article will be available for registered participants.
Reading Abstract

“This study investigates negative feedback received via exit surveys completed by students who participated in over 11,000 writing center consultations. Although the feedback was overwhelmingly positive, the researchers mined negative comments for patterns—and note the value of negative feedback in helping writing centers assess and improve our practice. A key finding in the study is the prevalence of negative comments regarding what the researchers term “non-directive non-productivity”: students’ perception that some consultations guided by principles of non-directivity improve neither their product nor their process.”

Guidelines for Participating
Reading Club is currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure a safe space for open communication and interaction, these sessions will not be recorded.
Register
You can register for a reading club through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the morning of the event.

Webinar: "Perspectives on Asynchronous Tutoring"
2023-05-15 15:00 - 16:00
Webinars provide a space to share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs).
Event Details

Presenters: Mohsine Bensaid, Maura Grady, Laura Hardin Marshall, & Sarah-Jean Watt
Title: “Perspectives on Asynchronous Tutoring”
Hosting Organization: Online Writing Centers Association

This webinar will feature a panel of presenters discussing their various approaches to asynchronous tutoring. Panelists will discuss how asynchronous tutoring can reach varied student populations by emphasizing principles of access and inclusion.

ASL Interpretation and Recording
We work with Morr Interpreting to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in each webinar. Webinars are recorded, given edited closed captions, and shared in our Event Archive up to 2 weeks after the event date.
Guidelines for Participating
Webinars are currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure our interpreters are visible and can translate without auditory or visual distractions, we ask that participants keep their audio and video turned off during the event. Participants are welcome to ask questions and contribute in the chat.
Recording
This event will be recorded, and the recording will be available to the public.
Register
You can register for a webinar through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

Conference Co-Chair & Vice President Applications Due
2023-05-14
Applications for Conference Co-Chair and Vice President are due on Saturday, May 14, by the end of the day. Learn more about being on the executive board and consider applying for the position.

Reading Club: Why Writers Choose Asynchronous Online Tutoring
2023-04-28 15:00 - 16:00
Reading club provides a space to discuss writing center scholarship. Based on the article or chapter chosen, participants will share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs). This Reading Club will discuss “Why Writers Choose Asynchronous Online Tutoring: Issues of Access and Inclusion” by Lisa Eastmond Bell, Adam Brantley, & Madison Van Vleet in WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.
Reading Abstract
“To effectively support writers, writing centers should know who uses tutoring at their locale and why. As Lori Salem notes, ‘[T]he decision to use or not use the writing center offers us a unique window into the writing center’ (150), and these decisions often encompass ‘personal preferences’ as well as ‘broader social factors’ (149). Questions about who uses tutoring and why are not new, but they have not always included online tutoring. As a writing center administrator and undergraduate writing tutors, we wanted to better understand who used our program’s asynchronous online screencast tutoring and why these writers chose to use online tutoring. To do so, we conducted an IRB-approved study examining the demographic differences between writers participating in online versus in-person tutorials, the primary reasons writers chose online tutoring, and the ways online tutoring met or did not meet writers’ preferences or needs.”
Guidelines for Participating
Reading Club is currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure a safe space for open communication and interaction, these sessions will not be recorded.
Register
You can register for a reading club through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the morning of the event.

2023 OWCA Conference
2023-04-13 - 2023-04-14
The OWCA’s 2nd virtual conference will take place asynchronously and synchronously around the theme of multimodality in the online writing center.
Questions? Email owca-conference@onlinewritingcenters.org

How to Attend
All OWCA members can attend the OWCA virtual conference and access the recordings for free, with no additional registration fees or forms.
Not a member? Join the OWCA!

2023 OWCA Conference Asynchronous Sessions
2023-04-06 - 2023-04-12
The OWCA’s virtual conference asynchronous sessions will be available from April 6.
How to Attend
All OWCA members can attend the OWCA virtual conference and access the recordings for free, with no additional registration fees or forms. Please make sure you are signed in to your account before attempting to access the presentations.
View the conference portal or go straight to the asynchronous presentations page.
Not yet a member? Join the OWCA today!
Questions? Email owca-conference@onlinewritingcenters.org

Mentoring Group Registration Deadline
2023-04-02
Register to join one of the 2023 mentoring groups! Mentoring groups are open to all OWCA members.
Learn more about mentoring groups
Register for the 2023 cohort

OWCA Website Shutdown
2022-11-28 - 2022-12-08
From November 28 to December 11, the OWCA website will be shut down for updates.
If you need to access your account or one of our resources during the shutdown, please contact website@onlinewritingcenters.org.

Reading Club: Collaborative Learning and the "Conversation of Mankind" by Kenneth Bruffee
2022-11-10 17:00 - 18:00
Reading club provides a space to discuss writing center scholarship. Based on the article or chapter chosen, participants will share experiences, ideas, strategies, and questions about online writing centers (OWCs). This Reading Club will discuss Collaborative Learning and the “Conversation of Mankind” by Kenneth Bruffee.
Guidelines for Participating
Reading Club is currently held in a Zoom Pro room. Participation is open to everyone, including not-yet OWCA members. To ensure a safe space for open communication and interaction, these sessions will not be recorded.
Register
You can register for a reading club through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the morning of the event.

Executive Board Applications Due (Extended)
2022-11-06
The OWCA is still accepting applications for the following Officer positions on the Executive Board:

Vice President
Assistant Treasurer
Student Representative (2 openings)
Outreach Coordinator

Anyone is welcome to apply. Applications are due November 6 (by end of the day).

Informational Session: Election Application Workshop
2022-10-20 17:00 - 18:00
In this informational session, you can learn about open Officer positions, learn effective practices for writing an application, and receive feedback on your application.
Open Positions
The following Officer positions are open for applications:

Vice President
Assistant Treasurer
Assistant Secretary
Diversity & Social Justice Chair
Diversity & Social Justice Co-Chair
Accessibility Co-Chair
Virtual Events Co-Chair
Student Representative (2 openings)
Website Coordinator
Outreach Coordinator

Who Can Attend
Informational sessions are open to everyone. Please come learn more about the OWCA!
Register
You can register for an informational session through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.

OWCA Conference Proposals Due
2022-10-15
The deadline for OWCA conference proposals is October 15, 2022, at 11:59PM Pacific Time.
We accept written proposals ( about 500 words), audio proposals (5 minutes or less), and video proposals (5 minutes or less).
Important Links

Conference Proposal Submission

Submit a proposal to the 2023 OWCA conference

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Accessibility Guides

Use OWCA's Accessibility Resources

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Informational Session: End-of-Year Recap
2022-10-14 15:00 - 16:00
In this informational session, you can meet current OWCA Executive Board members and learn about:

The structure of the OWCA
Member dues and benefits
Yearly objectives and action items
Events and resources
Committee volunteer opportunities
Open positions on the Executive Board

Who Can Attend
Informational sessions are open to everyone. Please come learn more about the OWCA!
Register
You can register for an informational session through the scheduling system below. Follow these steps:

Select your time zone from the drop-down menu
Click the “Register” button next to the event you’d like to attend
Fill out the registration form and click “Complete Registration”
Save your confirmation email to have the Zoom information or cancel your registration later. You can also respond to this email to contact the event organizers.

A reminder email will also be sent the day of the event.
