<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:zp" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:12.8px;direction:ltr;margin:5px 15px 0px 0px;padding-bottom:5px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div id="gmail-:zq" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH gmail-m164c873de5def6b7" style="overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div>The<span> </span><i>Spark<span> </span></i>Editorial Collective is pleased to share the call for the first edition of our journal. Below you'll find an abbreviated version. For more details, check out the call in its entirety, which is attached to this email. We welcome inquiries at <a href="mailto:4C4Equality@gmail.com">4C4Equality@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Liz Lane</div><div>Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication<br><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of Memphis<br><a href="mailto:etlane@memphis.edu">etlane@memphis.edu</a></span></div></div></div></div><div id="gmail-:zp" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:12.8px;direction:ltr;margin:5px 15px 0px 0px;padding-bottom:5px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div id="gmail-:zq" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH gmail-m164c873de5def6b7" style="overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>______________________</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b id="gmail-m_3230809742012465314gmail-docs-internal-guid-a31b5ac9-c864-dd9d-32f3-7447b5cb1d7f" style="font-weight:normal"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Published by </span><a href="https://www.parlorpress.com/workingandwritingforchange" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Working & Writing for Change</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">/</span><a href="http://newcitycommunitypress.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New City Community Press</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spark</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is an online-only, open-access, peer-reviewed journal published annually. It provides a forum for activist students, teachers, and researchers in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies to articulate the public and disciplinary value of their social justice pursuits. Such justice work may be localized within a school, neighborhood, or campus, or as far-reaching as regional, national, and international efforts. It may intersect with movements such as Black Lives Matter, or campaigns such as Defend DACA or Families Belong Together & Free. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ultimately, the work published in </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spark</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> speaks to the power of intersectional and collaborative efforts working for political change.</span></p><br><p dir="l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 cities around the U.S., as well as protests outside detention centers around the country. Finally, these calls ask people to help build existing organizations and become part of the movement to stop the Trump administration’s policies and institute a humane system for immigrants and asylum seekers in the U.S.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 2019 edition of </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Spark </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">reflects on the ways that individual, collective, and organizational action are integral to this fight and more broadly to all struggles for justice, equity, and liberation. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Furthermore, the edition asks contributors to explore how the foci of writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies--reading, writing, speaking, and listening--undergird individual, collection, and organizational actions. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
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