Wednesday 17^th to Friday 19^th June 2026  

Falmouth University 

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. 

The IWWA will elevate and analyse women’s voices and creative practices: the collaborative and the individual; women’s futures and women’s pasts; forms, mediums, and methodologies; freedom and independence; depictions of hope and of resistance; imaginative practices and women’s realities; the personal and the public all across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts.  

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. Subjects might include (but are not bound by): 

• Women’s writing on page, stage, and screen 

• Multicultural approaches and practices 

• Solidarity and difference 

• Cultural, historical, and social contexts 

• The canon and the bestseller 

• The visual and the digital 

• Women’s writing and power  

• Communication and collaboration 

• Transitions and liminalities 

• Race, class, gender, and resistance 

• The pasts, presents, and futures of women’s writing 

• The global and the local 

• Textual and sexual politics 

• Interventions and intersections 

• Gender and genre 

• Writing women’s lives 

• Authorship and representations 

• Memory and memorialisation 

• Women’s writing on the body 

• The poetics of women’s writing 

• Technology and pleasure 

• Creative practices 

• Women’s writing and performance 

• Activism and protest; freedoms and oppression 

• The physical, the digital, the historical 

• Romance, crime, horror  

• The Gothic and the ghostly  

• The rebellious and the revolutionary 

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 17^th April 2026 making it clear that you are submitting for the Falmouth conference. 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.