Societies’ Call for Papers
ALA 2027 will take place in Boston, MA, from May 26-29, 2027. CFPs from author societies will be posted below as they come in.
Society CFPs
The James Baldwin Review Click here for CFPs
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Click here for CFPs
Poe Studies Association Click here for CFPs
The Marilynne Robinson Society Click here for CFP
The Evelyn Scott Society Click here for CFP
All Societies
- 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
- 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
- William Dean Howells Society
- 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