The CWWA is associated with Contemporary Women’s Writing, an online academic journal published by Oxford University Press.

Contemporary Women’s Writing critically assesses writing by women authors who have published approximately from 1970 to the present, especially in essays that reach beyond a reading of a single text in order to challenge existing thinking or extend debates about an author, genre, topic, or theoretical perspective and relate literary analysis to wider cultural and intellectual contexts.

The journal aims to reflect retrospectively on developments throughout the period, to survey the variety of contemporary work, and to anticipate the new and provocative in women’s writing. It welcomes theoretical, cultural, historical, geographical, formalist, and political approaches to contemporary women’s writing. It takes an interest in the production and reception of contemporary women’s writing, in terms of the practices of individual authors, the creation of cultural and literary fields, and the construction of readerships.

Publishing original work in English, Contemporary Women’s Writing is open to essays on literature in English and other languages and to interviews with prominent women writers of any nationality. It welcomes submissions relating to all literary forms and from a wide variety of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives. The journal editors invite proposals for special issues, to be coordinated by guest associate editors.

The journal is hosted on the fully responsive Oxford Academic platform, providing enhanced user experience compared to print, access to digital components of content, usage information, citation data, reference linking, and other vital metrics.

Contemporary Women’s Writing is covered by the following abstracting and indexing services:

ABES (annotated bibliography for English Studies)
Feminist Periodicals
MLA International Bibliography
Scopus
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Arts and Humanities Citation Index®
Current Contents®/Arts & Humanities