Past CWWA & Affiliated Conferences and Events

• Contemporary Women Writing Race: Textual Interventions and Intersections Symposium. Online. 10 Sept 2021. Read Shelby Judge’s blog post about the event here!
• CWWA Summer Sessions: PGR & ECR talk and workshops series. Online. June-July 2021.
• Jackie Kay: An International Conference (CWWA sponsored). Online. 3 June 2021.
• Margaret Atwood – CWWA Birthday Symposium. Online. 18 Nov 2020.
• CWWA September Sessions: PGR & ECR talk and workshops series. Online. Sept 2020.
• CWWA Biennial International Conference. Locations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing. Algoma University, Ontario. 3-5 July 2019.
• Writing Wrongs CWWA Conference. Northumbria University. 20-21 September 2018.
• Dementia and Cultural Narrative Symposium. University of Aston. 7-8 December 2017.
• Literary Leicester: Kamila Shamsie with Fiona Tolan. CWWA Sponsored Event. 18 Nov 2017.
• Emma Donoghue Symposium. Brighton. 2017.
• Reading Michèle Roberts: An International Conference. University of Lodz, Poland. 7-8 September 2017.
• English: Shared Futures. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 5-7 July 2017. Read the invitation for the associated CWWA 2017 AGM, along with CWWA-organised panels, here!
• Literary Leicester: Fay Weldon with Mary Eagleton. CWWA Sponsored Event. 19 Nov 2016. Access the recording here.
• Legacies and Lifespans: Contemporary Women’s Writing in the 21st Century. University of Brighton. 17 October 2015.
• CWWA Biennial International Conference. Contemporary Women’s Writing and Environments, RMIT, Monash and Deakin Universities, Melbourne, Australia, 3-5 July 2014.
• Contemporary Experimental Women’s Writing, University of Manchester, 12-13 October 2013.
• Contemporary Women’s Writing and Literary Prize Culture, Leeds Metropolitan University, 24 June 2013. Videos from the day can be accessed here.
• Feminism in Academia: An Age of Austerity? Current Issues and Future Challenges (a joint CWWA and FWSA event), University of Nottingham, 28 September, 2012.
• CWWA Biennial International Conference. Contemporary Women’s Writing: (Wo)man and the Body, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 11-13 July, 2012. For details of the prize for best paper by a postgraduate student, click here.
• CWWA Biennial International Conference. Contemporary Women’s Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies, 7-9 July 2010, San Diego State University, USA.
• CWWA Biennia International Conference. Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women’s Writing and Diaspora, 11-13 July, 2008, University of Leicester, UK.
• For Love or Money? Contemporary Women’s Fiction in the Marketplace, 21-23 April, 2006, University of Wales, Bangor, UK.