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