Going to CCCC? Stop By Our Get-Together This Friday!

We’d love to see you

For many in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies, the spring semester means packing our bags and going to the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Sometimes we fly, sometimes we drive. Sometimes our panels are wondrous, sometimes they’re train wrecks. 

CCCC can be overwhelming. Crowded though it is, it can make you feel lonely, particularly if you’re new to the field. That is why I love the small gatherings sprinkled throughout the conference. They give us a chance to pause, connect, and have one-on-one conversations with people who have been or may become co-presenters, co-writers, collaborators, colleagues—and of course, friends.

This year constellations is hosting a get-together on Friday, April 11 from 4-5pm. Join us at the Baltimore Convention Center outside Levy (the convention center’s restaurant). Come for the whole time or for a little while. While there, you can:

• Ask questions about the journal and our approach to submissions, mentorship, and scholarship

• Tell us about projects you may want to publish with us and get our feedback 

• Pitch ideas for our “Conversations in Cultural Rhetorics” Series

• Meet members of our editorial staffLearn about ways you can get involved with constellations

• Connect with humans who are passionate about scholarship, storytelling, teaching, community, and all things cultural rhetorics

Some of the marvelous attendees at our 2023 CCCC Get-Together in Chicago. (Photo courtesy of Alexandra Hidalgo.)

If you can’t make it to our get-together (or to CCCC), feel free to reply to this post or comment below with questions, pitches, ideas, dreams. We will happily answer them. I myself will not be there, having just returned from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), which is even larger. This year there were 10,000 conference attendees. I share that number in case CCCC feels too vast and unruly. At least there aren’t 10,000 of us there! I also promise that if you email or comment with questions, I’ll answer right away to make up for my absence.

Whether you’re driving, flying, biking, or walking to the Baltimore Convention Center, we hope you have a productive, healing, and enjoyable conference. If you know someone who enjoys cultural rhetorics and might be interested in joining us or subscribing to our Substack, please forward this message to them.

Thank you for everything you do! Our journal wouldn’t be here (or at CCCC) without you.