This in-person conference will launch the new International Women’s Writing Association (IWWA), offering a global celebration of women’s writing in all its forms, mediums, and expressions at the gorgeous Woodlane campus in Falmouth, Cornwall.

This interdisciplinary and cross-period conference welcome discussions on literature and art; films and television; poetry and prose; theories and histories; the popular and the literary; screen and script; the digital and the historical; the canon and the bestseller; games and song; creative non-fiction and the factual; life-writing and biographies, alongside other forms of transnational cultural production.

We hope you will join us for this exciting conference, which will bring together scholars, researchers, students, and enthusiasts to share their research in an open and inclusive atmosphere, as well as to participate in and help shape the future of the International Women’s Writing Association.

We welcome submissions for individual twenty-minute papers as well as for full panels and workshops.

We encourage submissions from scholars at all stages of their careers, including early career researchers, independent scholars, and postgraduate students. Interdisciplinary approaches and innovative methodologies are welcome. All participants will be given free membership of the International Women’s Writing Association for 2026.

Submissions:
Proposals should include a title, an abstract of 250–300 words, a brief biographical note (up to 100 words), and contact details. Panel and workshop proposals are very welcome.

Please submit your proposals in a Word document to the team at womenswritingassociation@gmail.com by 17th April 2026 making it clear that you are submitting for the Falmouth conference.

See the full call for papers here. 

Deadline: 17th April 2026