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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#C00000">DEADLINE IN ONE WEEK! <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#78206E;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Please consider submitting a proposal to this FREE one-day conference in September at Radford University in southwest Virginia.</span></b><b><span style="color:#C00000"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BylL5v5mvqaMLzVmzUEgKP4pt_kOUEZCcU7HnKWWM7k/edit?tab=t.0" target="_blank" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BylL5v5mvqaMLzVmzUEgKP4pt_kOUEZCcU7HnKWWM7k/edit?tab=t.0">Call
for Proposals</a></span></u></b><span style="color:blue;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Deadline: Wednesday, April 30, 2025</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/2025-corridors-blue-ridge-writ">5th Annual Corridors: Blue Ridge Writing & Rhetoric Conference</a></span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Saturday, September 27, 2025</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Radford University | Radford, Virginia</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Conference Theme</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">A Voice That Carries: Embracing Authenticity in an Artificial Age<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Description</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Writing and rhetoric graduate students, instructors, and scholars in the
</span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://www.arc.gov/appalachian-counties-served-by-arc/" target="_blank" title="https://www.arc.gov/appalachian-counties-served-by-arc/">Appalachian region</a></span></u><span style="color:black"> are invited to submit
a proposal for the </span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/2025-corridors-blue-ridge-writ" target="_blank" title="https://sites.google.com/view/2025-corridors-blue-ridge-writ">Corridors: Blue Ridge Writing and Rhetoric Conference</a></span></u><span style="color:black"> to
be held on September 27, 2025, at </span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://www.radford.edu/" target="_blank" title="https://www.radford.edu/">Radford University</a></span></u><span style="color:black"> in Virginia. The conference theme (A Voice
That Carries: Embracing Authenticity in an Artificial Age) focuses on pedagogy, practices, and research that help students and faculty alike reconnect to, re-engage with, and celebrate their authentic voices. As a new age of artificiality sets in, this conference’s
purpose is to embrace authenticity by providing a space where real voices can be heard in rhetorically meaningful, creative, and intellectual ways. These voices can, then, engage with others in authentic ways that inspire real action and change within our
classrooms, across our campuses, and throughout our communities. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">“A voice that carries” is an idiom that expresses the physical ability of sound to travel distances as well as a person’s voice to be impactful, influential, or inspirational to listeners and readers. Its dual
literal and figurative meanings can have lasting positive effects on audiences, sometimes in surprising ways not anticipated by speakers and writers. Communication that can be both clearly heard and humanly understood is what leaves a mark, makes a connection,
and testifies of the power of words on the human spirit. Therefore, the goal of this conference is to bring together writing and rhetoric humans who desire to carry their voices in presentation rooms and during hallway conversations in the name of authenticity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Questions to Consider</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Potential contributors may want to consider the following questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
What is a writer’s voice, why does it matter in our modern day, and how does one find or develop it in such a complex (distracting and competitive) world?<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
How does a writer’s voice manifest itself on the page or in a speech act, and what are the implications for, effects on, or benefits to the audience?<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
What challenges do writers (students, instructors, researchers) face when considering voice in their writing? How can they overcome these challenges?<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
How does a writer’s voice change across traditional and digital media and their audiences? How does a writer’s voice influence an audience’s interpretation of, reaction to, and reception of the message?<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
How can writing and rhetoric courses and programs support minority/marginalized voices? <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
How can writing instructors help students find their authentic voices or voice identities? How can writing instructors and researchers find their own?<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
How can writing instructors help students choose authenticity over artificiality? What happens when a student chooses artificiality over authenticity?<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
In what ways can writing students, instructors, and researchers carry their voices, and why does it matter as the age of artificiality sets in?<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
In what ways can student writers benefit by embracing their authentic voices? <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
What writing and rhetoric pedagogical or research innovations are needed to navigate the intersection between authenticity and artificiality?<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
How has your writer’s voice been supported or expressed? How did this experience help you develop as a writer?<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Proposal Submissions</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please submit a 300-word proposal (plus a 50-word abstract for the conference program) related to the theme by
<b>Wednesday, April 30, 2025</b>. References are not included in the word count. Even so, please keep references to a minimum; instead, concentrate on your topic’s connection to the theme, importance/relevance, and key takeaways. Proposals can focus on classroom
practices, research, theory, faculty development, personal narratives, case studies, literature reviews, analyses, commentaries, and reflections. Sessions are 75 minutes. Presentation sessions include at least 15 minutes for questions and answers. The interactive
roundtable discussions and workshops have the full 75 minutes. All rooms are equipped with a computer, projector, audio, document camera, and whiteboard. Presenters should submit only one proposal in one of the following four formats: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<b>Panel Presentation:</b> 3-4 presentations of 15 minutes each.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<b>Individual Presentation:</b> 15-minute presentation (that will be combined into a panel by conference organizers).<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<b>Roundtable Discussion:</b> 15 minutes of introductory framing by the leader(s), followed by a facilitated discussion among roundtable participants and attendees (up to four roundtable participants).<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<b>Workshop:</b> A participatory session that engages attendees in an active-learning activity. Proposals should be explicit about the activity.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">A Special Open-Mic Session</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">This optional<b> Open-Mic Session</b> is an opportunity for attendees to “carry their voices” by reading/singing/dramatizing their original work (e.g., a poem, a song, a short story, an essay, an excerpt from a
fiction or non-fiction book of any type, a scene from a play or script, a profile, a magazine or newspaper article, a journal entry, personal narrative, a letter, a sermon, a blog post, a speech). An original reading/song/dramatization can be up to seven minutes
long and can include others as long as one of the participants originated the work. Presenters submitting a proposal type listed above can also participate in this open-mic session if they wish. A separate 100-word description of the reading/song/dramatization,
including the title of the work, is required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Proposal Submission Form</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Submit your proposal using this </span>
<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://forms.gle/iJPYiGXYsqBbRB4V9" target="_blank" title="https://forms.gle/iJPYiGXYsqBbRB4V9">Conference Proposal Form</a></span></u><span style="color:black"> by
<b>Wednesday, April 30, 2025</b>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Timeline</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Call for Proposals Released: February 15, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Conference Proposals Due: April 30, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Notifications Sent: No Later Than May 20, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Confirmation of Presenters Due: No Later Than June 20, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Registration Opens: July 1, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Draft Program Available: No Later Than July 1, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Final Program Available: No Later Than August 1, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Registration Closes: September 20, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Conference: September 27, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">About the Conference</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Corridors is a free, in-person, one-day (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) regional conference; however, registration is required to attend. Breakfast nibbles will be provided on the day of the conference, but attendees
will be on their own for lunch, dinner, beverages, snacks, travel, and lodging. An opportunity to gather in groups for dinner will be available and will be hosted by a faculty member or graduate student from Radford University’s School of Writing, Language,
and Literature. Free on-campus parking will be available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Conference Website</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Visit the </span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/2025-corridors-blue-ridge-writ" target="_blank" title="https://sites.google.com/view/2025-corridors-blue-ridge-writ">conference
website</a></span></u><span style="color:black"> for information about the keynote speaker, lunch and dinner options, lodging options, schedule-at-a-glance, and directions to Radford.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Contact</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Have questions? Please contact Laura Vernon at
</span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:lvernon@radford.edu" title="mailto:lvernon@radford.edu">lvernon@radford.edu</a></span></u><span style="color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Sponsors</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The 2025 Corridors: Blue Ridge Writing & Rhetoric Conference is sponsored by Radford University’s School of Writing, Language, and Literature and College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546A">_______________________________________</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#44546A;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#44546A">Laura Vernon, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor, Professional Writing<br>
School of Writing, Language, and Literature<br>
Radford University<br>
PO Box 6935<br>
Radford, VA 24142<br>
<a href="mailto:lvernon@radford.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">lvernon@radford.edu</span></a>
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