Societies’ Call for Papers

ALA 2026 will take place in Chicago, IL, from May 20-23, 2026. CFPs from author societies will be posted below as they come in.

SOCIETY CFPs

Henry Adams Society Click here for society CFP
African American Literature and Culture Society Click here for society CFP
Sherwood Anderson Society Click here for society CFP
James Agee Society
Edward Albee Society
Louisa May Alcott Society Click here for society CFP
American Humor Studies Association Click here for CFP
American Literature Society Click here for CFP
American Religion and Literature Society Click here for CFP
American Theatre and Drama Society
The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL)
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
James Baldwin Review
Amiri Baraka Society
Jonathan Bayliss Society Click here for society CFP
Beat Studies Association Click here for society CFP
Saul Bellow Society Click here for society CFP
Elizabeth Bishop Society
Kay Boyle Society
Octavia E. Butler Society
Bonnie Jo Campbell Society Click here for society CFP
International Raymond Carver Society
Willa Cather Foundation Click here for society CFP
Charles W. Chesnutt Association Click here for society CFP
Lydia Maria Child Society Click here for society CFP
Kate Chopin International Society Click here for society CFP
Circle for Asian American Literary Studies Click here for society CFP
Anna Julia Cooper Society
James Fenimore Cooper Society Click here for society CFP
Stephen Crane Society Click here for society CFP
E. E. Cummings Society Click here for society CFP
Edwidge Danticat Society
Rebecca Harding Davis Society Click here for society CFP
Don DeLillo Society
Emily Dickinson International Society Click here for society CFP
Digital Americanists Society Click here for society CFP
John Dos Passos Society
International Theodore Dreiser Society Click here for society CFP
Paul Laurence Dunbar Society
T. S. Eliot Society
Ralph Ellison Society
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Click here for society CFP
Percival Everett International Society
William Faulkner Society Click here for society CFP
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Click here for society CFP
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Society Click here for society CFP
Friends of William Stafford
Robert Frost Society
Margaret Fuller Society Click here for society CFP
Ernest J. Gaines Society
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society Click here for society CFP
Ellen Glasgow Society
International Susan Glaspell Society
Haiku Society of America
Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Click here for society CFP
H.D. International Society Click here for society CFP
Ernest Hemingway Society Click here for society CFP
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society Click here for society CFP
William Dean Howells Society Click here for society CFP
Langston Hughes Society
Irish American Writers and Artists Click here for society CFP
Washington Irving Society Click here for society CFP
Shirley Jackson Society Click here for society CFP
Henry James Society Click here for society CFP
William James Society
Sarah Orne Jewett Society Click here for society CFP
Charles Johnson Society
Maxine Hong Kingston Society
Latina/o/x Literature and Culture Society Click here for society CFP
Jack London Society Click here for society CFP
Robert Lowell Society Click here for society CFP
Cormac McCarthy Society Click here for society CFP
Mary McCarthy Society
Carson McCullers Society Click here for society CFP
Claude McKay Society Click here for society CFP
MELUS (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) Click here for society CFP
The Melville Society Click here for society CFP 1 Click here for society CFP 2
The Arthur Miller Society Click here for society CFP
Marianne Moore Society Click here for society CFP
Toni Morrison Society Click here for society CFP
Frank Norris Society Click here for society CFP
Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society Click here for society CFP
Joyce Carol Oates Society Click here for society CFP
Flannery O’Connor Society Click here for society CFP
Charles Olson Society Click here for society CFP
Eugene O’Neill International Society
Walker Percy Society
Poe Studies Association Click here for society CFP
Postwar Area Literature Group Click here for society CFP
Katherine Anne Porter Society
Ezra Pound Society
Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) Click here for society CFP
Marilynne Robinson Society
Philip Roth Society Click here for society CFP
George Saunders Society
Evelyn Scott Society Click here for society CFP
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Click here for society CFP (1) Click here for society CFP (2)
Lydia Sigourney Society
William Gilmore Simms Society Click here for society CFP
Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society Click here for society CFP
Society for American Jewish Literature
Society of Early Americanists Click here for society CFP
Society for the Study of the American Gothic Click here for society CFP
Society for the Study of American Literary Naturalism Click here for society CFP
Society for the Study of American Poetry Click here for CFP
Society for the Study of American Travel Writing Click here for society CFP
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Click here for society CFP
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)
Gertrude Stein Society
International John Steinbeck Society
Wallace Stevens Society
Harriet Beecher Stowe Society
Thoreau Society Click here for society CFP 1 Click here for society CFP 2
Mark Twain Circle Click here for society CFP
John Updike Society
Kurt Vonnegut Society
International David Foster Wallace Society Click here for society CFP
Eudora Welty Society Click here for society CFP
Western Literature Association Click here for society CFP
Edith Wharton International Society Click here for society CFP
Whitman Studies Association Click here for society CFP
Thornton Wilder Society
William Carlos Williams Society Click here for society CFP
August Wilson Society Click here for society CFP
Constance Fenimore Woolson Society
Richard Wright Society Click here for society CFP